The Serb Democratic Party (Serbian: Српска демократска странка, romanized: Srpska Demokratska Stranka, abbr.
At the time of its founding, the SDS called for the better co-ordination of organizations representing Serb refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo and Metohija.
[2] Dragan Dašić was selected as the party's president at a meeting in Subotica in February 2012,[3] and the SDS subsequently fielded its own electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election.
Entrepreneur Branislav Švonja was selected as its leader, Zoran Subotić was named as its coordinator for Vojvodina, and Radivoj Prodanović became the president of its city board in Novi Sad.
Media coverage of this arrest highlighted the fact that he had previously been convicted of vote-buying for the SDS in an off-year municipal election in Odžaci in 2013.