The Serb People's Party ( / Srpska narodna stranka, SNS) was a political party in Montenegro. The SNS was led by Andrija Mandić. At the last legislative elections in Montenegro, on September 10, 2006, the Serb List, led by the SNS, won 12 out of 81 seats. It was then the largest political group in the Parliament of Montenegro right after the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists-Social Democratic Party coalition. In January 2009, it merged with to People's Socialist Party of Montenegro (NSS) to form the New Serb Democracy. Overview The SNS was an ethnic Serb party that promoted the rights of the Serb ethnic group against what it sees as state-sponsored discrimination. Unlike the pro-federalist Socialist People's Party of Montenegro (SNP) which is left-oriented (being social-democratic), the SNS is focused primarily on representing the interests of Serb people in Montenegro around a center-right cultural conservative program. It presented itself as one of the successors to the old People's Party in the founded in 1906 in the Kingdom of Montenegro, alongside the current People's Party of Montenegro. Its platform consisted of protection of the ethnic Serb community in the smaller republic against what it sees as the apartheid-like policies of the government of Milo Đukanović whom it has vehemently opposed since its creation. The SNS also supported a restoration of tighter relations between Serbia and Montenegro in conjunction with Euro-Atlantic integration. In 1997 the People's Party of Montenegro entered the To live better broad anti-Bulatović and anti-Milošević political alliance of Milo Đukanović. Numerous members of NS saw it betraying its own basis by siding with its greatest enemy and now also the enemy of the Serb people. NS CG had also distanced itself from its old Serbian nationalistic aims a lot and has become quite moderate, and these same members accused the party's political leadership under Novak Kilibarda for abandoning the general interests of the Serbs. It is thus they left the party and formed the Serbian People's Party of Montenegro ( / Srpska narodna stranka Crne Gore, SNS CG), which claims to continue to original policies of NS. The leader of the fraction, Božidar Bojović, was elected the SNS's first leader. The fraction also supported Momir Bulatovic unlike mainstream NS which sided with Milo Djukanovic in the epic 1997-1998 presidential and party DPS changes. SNS CG refused to sign on 1 September 1997 the agreement of joint overseeing of