Nastas Petrović

[1] After graduating in 1892, he began working as a teacher at the Užice Gymnasium, but was dismissed due to his political support for radicalism, for which he was also placed under custody.

In 1902 he joined the People's Radical Party (NRS) and began to collaborate with radical newspapers such as "Narodni pokret"; by 1907 he was already the chairman of the Serbian Association of Journalists, holding this post for a long time, simultaneously with that of the chairman of the Association of Municipal Education Directors.

[1] He was a deputy to the Corfu National Assembly of 1916 and in late 1915, in the midst of World War I, he created a group of independent radicals who broke away from the party and opposed the leadership of Nikola Pašić.

[5] In 1924, after the death of the party leader, Stojan Protić, he became chairman of the "Independent Radicals", a small parliamentary group advocating a coalition with the Croats.

[6] After being re-elected to the National Assembly for the last time in 1925, he lost his political influence and did not return to the People's Radical Party.