Party for Democratic Action

The Party for Democratic Action[4] or Democratic Action Party[5] (Albanian: Partia për veprim demokratik, PVD; Serbian Cyrillic: Партија за демократско деловање, romanized: Partija za demokratsko delovanje, PDD) is a political party in Serbia, representing the Albanian ethnic minority. It is currently led by Shaip Kamberi.

For political parties with similar names, see Party of Democratic Action (disambiguation).

Party for Democratic Action
Partia për veprim demokratik
Партија за демократско деловање
AbbreviationPVD, PDD
LeaderShaip Kamberi
FounderRiza Halimi
Founded19 August 1990 (1990-08-19)
HeadquartersPreševo
IdeologyAlbanian minority interests[1][2]
Political positionCentre-right[3]
National affiliationKSLP
PDD–SDA
Colors
  •   Blue
  •   Yellow
National Assembly
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Website
pvd-pbm.org

Recent history

At the latest legislative election in 2016, the party received one seat in parliament, a drop from its peak of two seats in 2014 election. It raised to 3 seats in 2020, following a campaign by Albania's foreign service to increase the political participation of Albanian ethnic minority from the Presevo Valley in Serbia's political elections.[6][7]

Parliamentary representation
National Assembly
Election Leader Votes Seats Notes Role
#  % # ±
1990 Riza Halimi 21,998 0.44 Opposition
1992 17,172 0.36 1 no seats
1993 29,342 0.68 1 Coalition with DPA Opposition
1997 14,179 0.34 Coalition DPB Opposition
2000 did not run 1 no seats
2003 did not run no seats
2007 16,973 0.42 1 Coalition APD Opposition
2008 16,801 0.41 Coalition APD Opposition
2012 13,384 0.30 Coalition APD Opposition
2014 24,301 0.68 1 Gov't support
2016 16,262 0.43 1 Gov't support
2020 Shaip Kamberi 26,437 0.82 2 Coalition ADA-UD Opposition
2022 10,144 0.27 2 TBA

References
  1. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2020). "Serbia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. Masters, Owen (23 September 2002). "Report on the local elections in Southern Serbia". Strasbourg.
  3. "Serbia". Europe Elects. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  4. Nathalie Clayer; Xavier Bougarel (2013). Les musulmans de l'Europe du Sud-Est: des empires aux états balkaniques. KARTHALA Editions. pp. 233–. ISBN 978-2-8111-0905-9. Parti de l'action démocratique
  5. Tom Lansford (24 March 2015). Political Handbook of the World 2015. SAGE Publications. pp. 5414–. ISBN 978-1-4833-7155-9. Democratic Action Party
  6. Albania daily news
  7. punetejashtme


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