ABSTRACT
The Serbian Renewal Movement obtained 20 seats at the federal level and 50 at the republican level, making it the largest democratic opposition party represented in both legislatures. The remainder of seats in both parliaments were divided among Serb nationalists and an assortment of moderate parties, including the oppositionist Zajedno coalition, which was formed by the Serbian Renewal Movement, the Democratic Party, and the Civic Alliance on 2 September 1996. In the parliamentary elections on 21 September 1997, the Socialist Party of Serbia won 110 out of 250 parliamentary seats, the Serbian Radical Party gained 82, and the Serbian Renewal Movement, 45. The party operated as an urnbrella political movement in that it respected the relative independence of local organizational units and fostered the creation of academic, cultural, business, and other clubs. It was therefore regarded more as a political movement than a political party.
