Background
From the end of the nineteenth century, Serbian politics was constantly plagued by unsolved national problems, key amongst them the large number of Serbs living outside the Serbian national state. Nevertheless, radical right wing organisations were unable to gather significant support until the 1990s; Dimitrije Ljotić's Convent, the most important such organisation in the interwar era, failed to win a single seat in parliament during the 1930s. Both the radical right's general association with Germany, and the endorsement of nationalist aims by the leading centrist parties such as the People's Radical Party undermined support for the radical right. A surge in their activities during the early 1990s was largely the result of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, economic breakdown, sanctions imposed by the UN, and not least the left-wing nationalistic policies pursued by Serbian President Slobodan Milošević from 1987 onwards - through these, the SRS twice entered a coalition with Milošević's SPS.
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