The Christian Democratic Party of Serbia (Serbian: Демохришћанска Странка Србије, romanized: Demohrišćanska Stranka Srbije; abbr.

[3] The DHSS was opposed to the Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro citing the differences between the two republics' monetary, financial and banking systems, and advocated the dissolution of the federation.

However, on 10 November 2008 Batić left the LDP parliamentary group and from then on voted as an independent MP.

The split occurred because the LDP had recently joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and couldn't go on in coalition with a conservative party.

[9] In the 2012 parliamentary election, the DHSS was part of the Choice for a Better Life coalition centered around the Democratic Party and won one seat in the National Assembly of Serbia.