Zoran Dragišić

In the early 2000s, Dragišić regularly promoted Serbia's cooperation with and eventual membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

This party eventually became divided and factionalized, and in January 2008 Dragišić established a breakaway group called the Independent Social Democrats (Nezavisni Socijaldemokrata, NSD).

[14] In August 2009, Dragišić merged the NSD into the newly formed Social Democratic Party of Serbia (Socijaldemokratska partija Srbije; SDPS) led by Rasim Ljajić.

[15] This proved to be a short-lived alliance; Dragišić became disappointed with the SDPS's direction, left the party, and in October 2011 was chosen as leader of a new group called the Movement of Workers and Peasants (Pokret radnika i seljaka; PRS).

At this party's founding conference, he indicated that its purpose would be to "give the state back to the people" and noted that it was supported by worker organizations such as Serbia's Union of Raspberry Producers, the Farmers' Association, and the Pig Breeders of Srem and Mačva.

During this campaign, he pledged to use "all the state power, including the military, to break the backbone of organized crime, corruption and monopoly system in Serbia.

Dragišic remarked that Progressive Party leader and prime minister Aleksandar Vučić deserved to be returned to office for his work in fighting corruption and organized crime.