2014–2017 Miroslav Aleksić became
mayor of Trstenik in 2012 as a member of the
United Regions of Serbia (
Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije, URS). The URS largely became dormant after the
2014 Serbian parliamentary election, and Aleksić left the party later in the year and became acting leader of a breakaway group initially called the People's Party of Serbia (
Narodna stranka Srbije, NSS). The group was formally constituted as the People's Movement of Serbia in January 2015, and Aleksić was chosen as its leader in February. The party contested the
2016 parliamentary election as part of the
Alliance for a Better Serbia list led by
Boris Tadić,
Čedomir Jovanović and
Nenad Čanak. Aleksić received the eighth position on the electoral list and was elected when the alliance won thirteen mandates. The People's Movement of Serbia operated in a parliamentary alliance with Tadić's
Social Democratic Party, which also contested the 2016 elections in the
Alliance for a Better Serbia. Aleksić served as the parliamentary group's deputy leader. Both the alliance with the Social Democratic Party and Aleksić's deputy leadership of the parliamentary group continued after the party was restructured as the People's Party.
2023–present NPS was reconstituted on 6 August 2023 after Aleksić left the People's Party. Alongside Aleksić, members of the National Assembly
Slavica Radovanović,
Borislav Novaković, and
Đorđe Stanković, and councillors in the
City Assembly of Belgrade joined the party. On 25 August, Aleksić announced that they collected over 10,000 signatures. The party was subsequently registered in October 2023. NPS became part of the
Serbia Against Violence coalition in October 2023, a coalition of political parties organising the 2023 protests. == Ideology and platform ==