Sovereignists (Serbia)
The Sovereignists were a right-wing populist political coalition in Serbia that participated in the 2022 general election. Initially formed as an agreement between the Enough is Enough and Healthy Serbia political parties, it was transformed into a political coalition in January 2022. In the 2022 general election, Branka Stamenković was its presidential candidate. The coalition failed to cross the 3 percent threshold and won no seats in the National Assembly.
History
Formation and early history
During a press conference on 30 November 2021, Saša Radulović, the leader of the Enough is Enough political party, announced the formation the "Sovereignists"; initially it was a political agreement between DJB and Healthy Serbia. DJB had previously used the "Sovereignists" label in the 2020 parliamentary election. The agreement was mainly formed to lower the potential electoral fraud for the January 2022 constitutional referendum, by signing up election controllers. Milan Stamatović stated that one of the priorities of the Sovereignists would be to protect "national interests". DJB claimed that the constitutional referendum was allegedly orchestrated at the will of the European Union and George Soros. The party had called other opposition parties to participate in the campaign by stating their opposition to the constitutional changes. In December, the agreement also gained support from far-right anti-vax activist Jovana Stojković and historian Čedomir Antić, while Radulović stated that the signatory parties might participate in the general elections in a joint coalition.Following the constitutional referendum in January 2022, the Sovereignists had claimed that 600,000 votes were falsified and that they would not recognise the results of the referendum. An appeal was filed to the Republic Electoral Commission, although it was eventually rejected. Its members participated in a protest which occurred a day after the referendum.