The New Face of Serbia (, abbr. NLS) is a political party in Serbia. Miloà ¡ Parandiloviàhas served as its president since its formation in September 2022.
Parandiloviàwas previously a member of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia. Following à ½ika GojkoviÃÂ's decision to side with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, Parandiloviàdisassociated with Gojkoviàand formed NLS. After the Belgrade school shooting and the Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings in May 2023, NLS was one of the organisers of the mass anti-government protests. In the 2023 parliamentary election, it was part of the Serbia Against Violence alliance and won 2 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. NLS is a self-described centre-right, conservative, and monarchist party.
Miloà ¡ Parandiloviàwas previously affiliated with the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS), joining POKS once it split from the Serbian Renewal Movement in 2017. He was a candidate in the 2020 parliamentary election, however, POKS failed to cross the 3% electoral threshold. POKS had a leadership dispute, that began in December 2021, and Parandiloviàsided with à ½ika GojkoviÃÂ, who declined to leave the position of the president of POKS. Parandiloviàwas later featured on a DveriâÂÂPOKS list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was successfully elected to the National Assembly of Serbia.
Following GojkoviÃÂ's decision to vote in favour of Vladimir OrliÃÂ, a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), becoming the president of the National Assembly of Serbia, ParandiloviÃÂ became critical of GojkoviÃÂ, ultimately leaving GojkoviÃÂ's faction of members of the National Assembly formerly affiliated with POKS.
ParandiloviÃÂ announced the formation of a new movement on 23 September 2022 and presented it inside the National Assembly on 26 September as New Face of Serbia (NLS). At the press conference on 26 September, he announced that NLS had members formerly affiliated with POKS, but also members of citizens' associations. Following the formation of NLS, POKS members of local boards in Jagodina, Valjevo, Ub, Lajkovac, and BogatiÃÂ defected to NLS.
Following the Belgrade school shooting and the Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings in May 2023, NLS and ParandiloviÃÂ have taken part in the Serbia Against Violence protests. In June 2023, NLS formed a local board in Valjevo.
After Miroslav Aleksiàleft the People's Party and reconstituted the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS) in August 2023, Parandiloviàjoined the four NPS members in the National Assembly to create a joint parliamentary group titled "People's Movement of SerbiaâÂÂNew Face of Serbia"; Parandiloviàbecame deputy chair of the parliamentary group. The group was expanded in September 2023, when three Ecological Uprising members, led by Aleksandar JovanoviàÃÂuta joined the parliamentary group, renaming it to "People's Movement of SerbiaâÂÂEcological UprisingâÂÂNew Face of Serbia".
ParandiloviÃÂ participated at the signatory of the Agreement for Victory document in September 2023, which was signed by the organisers of the Serbia Against Violence protests. In the same month, association "Natives" merged into NLS. NLS became part of the Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition in October 2023, a coalition of political parties organising the 2023 protests. SPN announced that it would contest the parliamentary, Vojvodina provincial, and Belgrade City Assembly elections, all scheduled for 17 December 2023. In the parliamentary election, SPN won 65 seats, 2 of which went to NLS.
NLS serves in opposition to SNS. It is a self-described conservative and centre-right political party. ParandiloviÃÂ, a self-described monarchist, has declared that NLS would too support the restoration of the monarchy, but that it would also support youth rights. NLS members and ParandiloviÃÂ were present at a commemoration of youth members of the Chetnik Student Battalion who died in 1944 near Bijeljina. NLS has declared its support for Serbian farmers. NLS opposes the proposed Ohrid Agreement but it supports holding a referendum on the matter. ParandiloviÃÂ has criticised Russophilia present amongst right-wing parties in Serbia and has cited Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle as role models.
Parandiloviàhas led NLS since its formation in September 2022. NLS elected him as president on 12 November, alongside vice-president Ivan MatoviÃÂ. Its slogan is "Serbia deserves better". Its headquarters is at Bulevar despota Stefana 80 in Belgrade. NLS and the Reformist Party (RS) came to an agreement on 1 August 2023 to reconstitute RS as NLS in the registry of political parties, thus NLS skipped the collection of 10,000 signatures to become a registered political party. Aleksandar Vià ¡njiÃÂ, the president of RS, was announced as one of the vice-presidents of NLS. NLS held its first assembly on 12 November at which the party adopted its programme, statute, and slogan.