From 2008 to 2010, it was known as the Party of Veterans of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Партија ветерана Србије, romanized: Partija veterana Srbije, also abbreviated as PVS).
Its stated goals were: The PVS intended to contest the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election at the head of its own coalition electoral list, but it did not obtain enough signatures to appear on the ballot.
[6][7] The overall results of the election were inconclusive, and after extended negotiations the For a European Serbia (ZES) alliance led by the Democratic Party formed a new coalition government with the Socialists.
[10] Shortly after his appointment, Vasiljević suggested that more than two hundred thousand women could be brought to Serbia from Russia and other Eastern European nations and from Southeast Asia to marry Serbian farmers.
The PVS's alliance with the Socialist Party broke down in 2009, and Vasiljević was removed as state secretary at the SPS's initiative in September of that year.
For his part, Vasiljević said, "I guess I got fired because I talked a lot against the Government, which did nothing to help the veteran population, except send the police to remove them from the streets.
In advance of its first meeting, Vasiljević said that the guard's founding members would be "the first company of the Christian militia in uniform, made up of experienced war veterans from about thirty Serbian towns.
"[19] [20][21] Serbia's interior ministry expressed concern about the formation of a paramilitary group, though Vasiljević said that the guard was not planning to act outside state institutions.
[22] When the guard was formed, Vasiljević was quoted as saying, "The struggle of the Serbian people for the right to live in these areas, free, proud and in the spirit of Christianity, has been going on for fifteen years.
[25] Although the guard received attention in the international media,[26] it was not a significant factor in the events surrounding Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence and ceased to exist shortly thereafter.