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Independent Democratic Serb Party (Croatia)

Samostalna demokratska srpska stranka, SDSS

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The flag is Serb tricolour with golden emblem consisting of the party initials in cyrillic letters. The party is formed in Serb held teritories of Croatia during the time of transitional international government in 1995 by the parts of Serb Democratic Party (SDS) willing to undergo changes, and continued to work in Republic of Croatia after reintegration of the regions. The emblem is based on SDS emblem with aditional letter S below.
Željko Heimer

Established: Zagreb, 6 October 1995. Members: 2004 (6.000). Members in Croatian Parliament: 1995-1999 - 1 (0,78%), 2004 - 3 (1,97%). The party was after the peaceful reintegration of the Serb held teritories in the Easter Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem (UN Protected Areas East), as political represetative of Serbs lead by Vojislav Stanimirovic. The SDSS site claims that the party was formed in 1997 in a merger of SSS (Samostalna srpska stranka) that was active in Zagreb since early 1990, with several progersive options that were active in Eastern Slavonia. According to my observance, the party initially used the emblems of SDSS similar to what was used by a party in the Republuic of Serb Krayina (adding an aditional S), but eventually the graphic symbols of the party were modernized as are shown on <www.hidra.hr>. The party Statutes describ the flag, but the description is