Bojan Pajtic

The party, that in the past gave several mayors, including Zoran Djindjic, now won 2.25 percent of the vote (18,286 votes) and will not be represented in the Assembly.

Previously, Balsa Bozovic, who headed the Belgrade board of the party and its campaign for the election, also resigned.

Serbian opposition parties have rejected the proposition of the former Democratic Party president, Bojan Pajtic, to adopt a "radically different approach" to political struggle and boycott parliament, as they did during the era of President Slobodan Milosevic.

Former DS leader and member of the National Assembly Bojan Pajtic has told a Belgrade daily that he does not intend to leave this opposition party.

Former DS leader and member of the National Assembly Bojan Pajtic has told a Belgrade daily that he does not intend to leave this opposition party.

Former leader of the Democratic Party (DS) Bojan Pajtic says he has won a lawsuit he filed against the Belgrade-based daily Informer.

"They lied that I vacationed in a hotel on the Brionian Islands (in Croatia)," Pajtic posted on Twitter, and noting that the newspaper paid him RSD 170,000 - about EUR 1,380 - in damages.

Dragan Sutanovac has been elected as the new leader of the opposition Democratic Party (DS).

Immediately in the wake of this decision, the former DS president, Bojan Pajtic, also resigned as the head of the party's parliamentary group, saying that he "does not share completely the new leadership's values and its political rationale."

The third Belgrade Pride Parade, which took place under the slogan "Love changes the world", was held on Sunday with several hundred LGBT rights supporters, alongside Serbian politicians, participating in the march through the centre of the Serbian capital.

The group was protected by some 5,000 police officers who had the city centre in lockdown to ensure participants' safety.

BELGRADE - Democratic Party (DS) leader Bojan Pajtic said in a statement to reporters after Monday's consultations on the new government that he explicitly told President Tomislav Nikolic that "being in the government with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) is the last thing" on the Democrats' minds.

After April's general elections in Serbia, which the governing Progressive Party won handsomely, the embattled and weakened pro-European Democratic Party, DS, is entering internal elections that could lead to a new president and determine the party's course ahead of Serbia's presidential elections in 2017.

Several thousand supporters of Serbian opposition parties staged a protest on Saturday in Belgrade, claiming that last Sunday's elections were rigged and urging citizens to vote in repeat elections at 15 polling stations scheduled for Wednesday.