The Montenegrin Federalist Party (sometimes known plainly as the Montenegrin Party) (Montenegrin: Црногорска федералистичка странка, Crnogorska federalistička stranka) or Montenegrin Peasants' Federalist Movement (Montenegrin: Crnogorski seljački federalistički pokret/Црногорски сељачки федералистички покрет) was a Montenegrin political party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) that stood for preservation of Montenegrin autonomy and a decentralized federalized Yugoslavia, best known as the fascist puppet-state Independent State of Montenegro and collaboration with the Axis forces and especially Ustašas in World War II. It was a prominent political factor of the Independent State of Croatia and Axis coalition in the war. It pursued the policy of the Greens who lost the Christmas Uprising, but on the political and social scene. It was destroyed and banned by the Allies. Its long-term leader was Sekula Drljević.
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