Šerif Hamzagić (Serbian Cyrillic: Шериф Хамзагић; born 31 May 1956) is a Serbian medical doctor, administrator, and politician from the country's Bosniak community. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 to 2012 as a member of G17 Plus.
Early life and career
editHamzagić was born in Tutin, in the Sandžak region of what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. His nineteenth-century ancestors were the founders of the community; a travelogue written in 1868 noted that there were seven houses in Tutin, six of which belonged to members of the Hamzagić family.
Hamzagić graduated from the University of Pristina Faculty of Medicine and began working at Tutin's Health Center in 1982, eventually becoming its director. In 1990, he completed his specialization in internal medicine in Belgrade.[1][2]
In 2012, Hamzagić co-authored a historical monograph entitled, Tutin: Od mahale do šehera.[3]
Politician
editHamzagić was a member of Izudin Šušević's Reform Democratic Party of Sandžak in the 1990s.[4] He appeared in the third position on the party's electoral list for the Kragujevac division in the 1993 Serbian parliamentary election; the list did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation.[5]
He later joined G17 Plus and received the 238th position on the party's list for the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[6] The list won thirty-four seats, and he did not receive a mandate. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.[7] Hamzagić's position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – had no specific bearing on his chances of election.)[8]
Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 Serbian local elections. Hamzagić ran for mayor of Tutin and finished third. He was elected to the municipal assembly when G17 Plus won two seats, although he resigned before the four-year term expired.[9][10] He later appeared in the 236th position on G17 Plus's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election and was not given a mandate when the list won nineteen seats.[11]
Parliamentarian
editG17 Plus contested the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the For a European Serbia (Za evropsku Srbiju, ZES) coalition, which was led by the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS). Hamzagić appeared in the 213th position on ZES's list and was awarded a mandate when the list won a plurality victory with 102 out of 250 seats.[12][13] The overall result of the election was inconclusive, but ZES ultimately formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and Hamzagić served as a supporter of the administration. He was a member of the assembly committee for international relations and the parliamentary friendship group with Bosnia and Herzegovina.[14]
Since 2012
editSerbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were assigned in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. G17 Plus contested the 2012 parliamentary election at the head of the United Regions of Serbia (Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije, URS) coalition. Hamzagić appeared on the list in the seventieth position; this was too low for election to be a realistic prospect, and he was not re-elected when the list won sixteen seats.[15] He was elected to the Tutin municipal assembly when the URS won six seats and served for the term that followed.[16]
Electoral record
editMunicipal (Tutin)
edit| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Šemsudin Kučević | List for Sandžak (Affiliation: Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak) | 8,588 | 59.33 | |
| Mujo Muković | Sandžak Democratic Party | 2,882 | 19.91 | |
| Šerif Hamzagić | G17 Plus | 1,226 | 8.47 | |
| Sead Ademović | Strength of Serbia Movement | 820 | 5.66 | |
| Mithat Eminović | People's Movement of Sandžak | 809 | 5.59 | |
| Osman Bejtović | Citizens' Group | 151 | 1.04 | |
| Total | 14,476 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: [17] | ||||
References
edit- ^ "Pravi predstavnik rodnog kraja", Danas, 8 September 2008, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ ŠERIF HAMZAGIĆ, about.me profile, 2012, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ "'Od mahale do šehera'", Danas, 5 July 2012, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Pravi predstavnik rodnog kraja", Danas, 8 September 2008, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Крагујевац) and Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1. Г17 ПЛУС - МИРОЉУБ ЛАБУС) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
- ^ The letter "H" appears near the end of the Serbian alphabet.
- ^ Direktorijum lokalnih samouprava u Srbiji, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), September 2005, p. 351.
- ^ SKUPŠTINA OPŠTINE, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-08. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City of Novi Pazar, accessed 19 November 2022. - ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Г17 плус - Млађан Динкић), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 15 February 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 ЗА ЕВРОПСКУ СРБИЈУ – БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
- ^ "G17 plus odredilo poslanike za Skupštinu Srbije", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 28 May 2008, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ ШЕРИФ ХАМЗАГИЋ, Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
- ^ Skupština opštine Tutin, Archived 2015-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Tutin, accessed 19 November 2022.
- ^ "KUČEVIĆ GRADONAČELNIK TUTINA U PRVOM KRUGU", bosnjaci.net, 22 September 2004, accessed 27 September 2022. An official source provides a slightly different number of total votes but does not provide the breakdown of votes for each candidate. See ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "REPUBLICKI ZAVOD ZA STATISTIKU - Republike Srbije". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021.