Vuk Draskovic Steps Down as Serbian Renewal Movement Leader after 34 Years

Vuk Draskovic (BETAPHOTO/Nenad Petrovic)

Vuk Draskovic, the founder and longtime leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, has resigned the post after 34 years, with party director Aleksandar Cvetkovic taking the helm instead.  

Draskovic tendered his resignation on July 12, while the necessary changes were on Aug. 19 entered to the Register of political parties managed by the Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ministry, it is said on the web page of the Serbian Renewal Movement, which has been in coalition with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party since 2014.

Newly appointed party leader Cvetkovic said that the party was looking at “a period of consolidation and reorganization.” 

“Since its inception, the Serbian Renewal Movement has been a nationalist, democratic, liberal, civic, and monarchist political party and will remain so in the future,”; Cvetkovic said.