Miodrag "Daka" Davidović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг "Дака" Давидовић; born 1957) is a Montenegrin businessman, economist and politician, prominent representative of Serbs from Montenegro, benefactor of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a longtime financier of the Montenegrin opposition during the a thirty-year long DPS rule in Montenegro.
[13] Alliance eventually dissolved prior to the parliamentary election in August 2020, all three parties decided to join a pre-election coalition with right-wing Democratic Front (DF) alliance, employing a more significant cultural and socially conservative discourse, supporting 2019-2020 clerical protests in Montenegro and Serbian Orthodox Church rights in Montenegro.
[14] Davidović is the de facto leader of the newly formed cultural conservative political alliance under the name Popular Movement (NP).
On 2 August 2020, the Popular Movement officially decided to enter the common opposition electoral list with Democratic Front and the SNP, in order to participate at the forthcoming parliamentary election, forming big tent "For the Future of Montenegro" pre-election coalition.
Joint opposition coalition won 32.55% of popular vote and 27 seats in the parliament,[17] while Zdravko Krivokapić, Montenegrin professor close to Davidović and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro leadership, was selected new prime minister-designate of Montenegro by the new parliamentary majority in September 2020, announcing economical reforms, fight against corruption, as well as withdrawal of the disputed law on religious communities.
[18] During October and November 2020, Davidović repeatedly stated that the leaders of the populist Democratic Front (of which he was one of the founders in 2012, as well as longtime financier) were trying to obstruct the political agreement on forming a new government, by unfoundedly accusing him and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro of influencing Krivokapić's decisions, as well the composition of the new cabinet of the government of Montenegro.
"[19] On 21 November 2020, at the church's holiday of Holy Archangel Michael, Daka Davidović announced that he is founding a new political party under the name the Popular Movement (of Montenegro).