Party of Serbian Unity
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The Party of Serbian Unity (Странка Српског Јединства, Stranka Srpskog Jedinstva) was a nationalist political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in the Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

.

The goals of the party included:
  • Unity of Serbian people
  • Keeping integrity of territory of Serbia
  • Parliamentarism and Democracy
  • Preservation of tradition, family and the Cyrillic script.


Following the assassination of Željko Ražnatović Arkan
Željko Ražnatovic
Željko Ražnatović , widely known as Arkan was a Serbian career criminal and later a paramilitary leader who was notable for organizing and leading a paramilitary force in the Yugoslav Wars...

, Borislav Pelević
Borislav Pelevic
Borislav Pelević is a Serbian politician. He had been the president of the nationalist Party of Serbian Unity, before it merged into the Serbian Radical Party in December 2007. His old party had a marginal importance in Serbian politics. Pelević was one of the Arkan's Tigers during the war in...

 became president of the party. At the last legislative elections
Elections in Serbia and Montenegro
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a union of Serbia and Montenegro which had existed between 1992 and 2003. It was reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003...

, 28 December 2003, the party was a part of the For National Unity
For National Unity
For National Unity was a political coalition in Serbia.At the last legislative elections, 28 December 2003, the alliance won 1.7 % of the popular vote and no seats. The alliance was formed by the Party of Serbian Unity, People's Peasant Party, and the People's Party....

 alliance, which won no seats. On 23 December 2007 the party decided to merge into the Serbian Radical Party
Serbian Radical Party
The Serbian Radical Party is a far-right Serbian nationalist political party in Serbia, founded in 1991. Currently the second-largest party in the Serbian National Assembly, it has branches in three of the nations that currently border Serbia – all former federal republics of Yugoslavia...

, which it finished doing in early September 2008.
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