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United Regions of Serbia Уједињени региони Србије
Founder	Mlađan Dinkić
Founded	16 May 2010 (as coalition) 20 April 2013 (2013-04-20) (as party)
Dissolved	13 November 2015
Preceded by	G17 Plus
Headquarters	Belgrade
Membership (2012)	220,000
Ideology	Regionalism Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-right
European affiliation	European People's Party (associate)
International affiliation	International Democrat Union
Website
ujedinjeniregionisrbije.rs (archived URL)
Politics of Serbia Political parties Elections

The United Regions of Serbia (Serbian: Уједињени региони Србије, romanized: Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije; abbr. УРС, URS) was a regionalist, liberal-conservative political party in Serbia. It was founded on 16 May 2010 as a political coalition, and became a unified political party on 21 April 2013. The URS advocated decentralization and was pro-business.

The URS received 5.51% of the popular vote in the 2012 parliamentary election. Following the election, the URS formed a coalition government with the Serbian Progressive Party and Socialist Party of Serbia. On 31 July 2013 the URS was ousted from the government and became opposition.

On 13 November 2015 the party was removed from the register of political parties and ceased to exist, which was controversial because the party had over a million euros of unpaid debt. It had already been defunct for more than a year, according to the former president Mlađan Dinkić. Even though the party has been long gone, it has remained in the party register of Serbia since then.

The URS was an associate member of the European People's Party. In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, URS was associated with the European People's Party.

Electoral results

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia

Election	# of votes	% of vote	# of seats	+/-	Notes	Government
2012	215,666	5.51%	16 / 250	16	as coalition	government, 2012–2013
						opposition, 2013–2014
2014	109,167	3.04%	0 / 250	16	as party	extra-parliamentary

Presidential elections

Leadership of the United Regions of Serbia

#	President		Born–Died	Term start	Term end
1	Mlađan Dinkić		1964–	16 May 2010	18 March 2014
a	Veroljub Stevanović		1946–	18 March 2014 (acting)	13 November 2015 (acting)
a	Verica Kalanović		1954–

References

1. "Partijsku knjižicu ima više od milion građana". Blic (in Serbian).
2. "URS po ugledu na CDU". Politika. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
3. "URS becomes party, Dinkić chosen as first leader". B92. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
4. Vasovic, Aleksander (12 June 2012). "Serbia's Democrats close in on coalition government". Reuters. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
5. "Serb Socialists to form coalition". The Herald. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
6. "Vučić i Dačić idu dalje, nema izbora". Novosti.rs. 31 July 2013.
7. "URS se briše iz registra političkih partija". Novosti.rs. 9 November 2015.
8. "Dinkić ugasio URS, ostao dug od 153 miliona!". Novosti.rs. 13 November 2015.
9. "U Srbiji 113 partija, dve preregistrovane prošle godine, jedna nova". rs.n1info.com (in Serbian). N1. 3 January 2019.
10. "Member party: URS | EPP". www.epp.eu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
11. "Mr Vladimir ILIĆ (Serbia, NR)". Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Retrieved 29 July 2023.

External links

• Official website

• 2010 establishments in Serbia
• Conservative parties in Serbia
• Defunct political parties in Serbia
• International Democracy Union member parties
• Liberal parties in Serbia
• Liberal conservative parties
• Political parties disestablished in 2014
• Political parties established in 2013
• Pro-European political parties in Serbia