the voting with representatives from political parties to evade repetition of future vote-balloting because they fiercely opposed any collaboration with Djukanovic, therefore cutting itself from inspecting the voting process. The Serb People's Party ran on the 1998 Montenegrin parliamentary election alone. It suffered a great defeat and lost enthusiasm, because it failed to pass the census and enter the Parliament. The Serbian People's Party decided to participate in the 24 October 2000 election for the Parliament of the Federal Republic, unlike the DPS ruling coalition of Đukanović which instituted a republican-sponsored boycott alleging the amended Constitution to promote inequality of Montenegro within the Yugoslavian federation (which the SNS sole parliamentarian at the time, vice-chairman Novica Stanić, voted against). In fact the Republican government of Đukanović made public threats to the 25% of electors who dared come out to vote. As a result of an agreement with the SNP, the SNS secured 2 seats of the Montenegrin portion of 30 seats in the 138-strong House of Citizens (with the remaining 108 belonging to Serbia). And at the election for the Chamber of Republics, SNS got even more - 9,494 or 7.5%. It secured a single seat for the 20 in the Montenegrin Dome of the 40-seat-strong Chamber of Republics. After Montenegrin independence referendum and proclamation of Montenegro's independence, SNS has challenged the referendum as being rigged and fraud-ridden. Furthermore, it started a petition to make gaining of Serbian citizenship possible for Serbs from Montenegro. The SNS has stated that it will recognize and respect the Republic of Montenegro to the degree that it respects the civic and human rights of a third of its populace (the Serbs). The SNS has refused to vote in favor of the new Montenegrin Constitution adopted in October 2007, with even one of its parliamentarians, spokesman Dobrilo Dedeić publicly tearing the document in parliament, and vowing to fight against the state-sponsored policy of discrimination to the very end. Furthermore, challenging a law which would make it illegal to hold dual citizenship, party leader Mandić has also publicly, in parliament, acknowledged to have become a dual Serbian citizen, challenging Podgorica to act on its threats. SNS began efforts to unite the Serb List into a single party, which would be more moderate in its position, for it to become a more desirable partner to civic and pro-Montenegrin opposition. However, the initiative has had moderate success, as Democratic