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Ivan Kostić (Serbian politician)

Ivan B. Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Б. Костић; born 15 September 1975) is a Serbian politician. He has been the leader of the right-wing Dveri party since September 2024.

Ivan Kostić
Иван Костић
Kostić in 2020
Leader of Dveri
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 September 2024
Preceded bycollective leadership, previously Boško Obradović
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
1 August 2022 – 6 February 2024
In office
3 June 2016 – 3 August 2020
Personal details
Born (1975-09-15) 15 September 1975 (age 49)
Vrbas, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyDveri

Kostić has served two terms in the Serbian national assembly and is currently a member of the Vrbas municipal assembly.

Early life and career

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Kostić was born in Vrbas, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He enrolled with the Faculty of Economics in Subotica in 1994, earned the title of graduated economist in 2002, and received a master's degree from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Novi Sad in 2014. Kostić took part in regular military service with the Serbian Armed Forces in 2002–03, has been active with Orthodox Christian organizations, and began operating his own business in 2008.[1][2]

Politician

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Kostić joined Dveri in 2002 and was chosen as its Vojvodina coordinator in 2012, when it became a political party. He led the party's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and was given the fourteenth position on its list in the concurrent 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[3][4] He later led its list for Vrbas in the 2013 Serbian local elections and was promoted to the tenth position in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[5][6] In each instance, Dveri failed to cross the electoral threshold to win assembly representation.[7]

Dveri formed an alliance with the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) in early 2016, and Kostić led a combined list of the parties in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election.[8] Once again, the list failed to cross the threshold.

Parliamentarian

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First term (2016–20)

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Kostić was given the thirteenth position on a combined Dveri–DSS list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, which was held concurrently with the provincial vote, and was elected when the list won exactly thirteen mandates.[9] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won the election, and Dveri served in opposition in the term that followed.

Kostić became chair of the assembly committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region in July 2016, on the SNS's nomination.[10][11] In this capacity, he worked with Serbian community organizations in neighbouring countries,[12] sought to initiate a public discussion on the situation of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina,[13] and helped to organize events commemorating the Serb, Jewish, and Roma victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp in World War II.[14] He was dismissed as committee chair in May 2018. No formal explanation was given, although Dveri members claimed it was because of his decision to invite Russian deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, from the disputed territory of Crimea, to the Serbian assembly.[15] In the same month that he was dismissed as chair, Kostić, at Poklonskaya's recommendation, received a medal from the Russian ministry of internal affairs for strengthening ties between Serbia and Russia.[16]

In his first term, Kostić was also a member of the economy committee,[a] a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the agriculture committee,[b] a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Argentina, Greece, Israel, Montenegro, Romania, and Russia.[17]

Dveri joined an opposition boycott of the assembly in 2019 and did not participate in the 2020 parliamentary elections. In early 2020, Kostić joined Dveri leader Boško Obradović in an eleven-day hunger strike on the steps of the national assembly, accusing the Progressives and their allies of undermining Serbia's state institutions.[18] His first assembly mandate ended on 3 August 2020.

Second term (2022–24)

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The opposition boycott ended in 2022, and Dveri contested the that year's parliamentary election in an alliance with Žika Gojković's branch of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). Kostić received the third position on their combined list and was elected to a second term when the list won ten mandates.[19] The SNS and its allies again won the election, and Dveri once again served in opposition.

In August 2022, Kostić presented Dveri's ten-point platform on Kosovo and Metohija, which was highlighted by a call for Serbia to end negotiations with the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) until the member states of those organizations withdrew their recognition of Kosovo as an independent country.[20]

In his second term, Kostić was the deputy leader of Dveri's assembly group and a member of the diaspora committee; a deputy member of the committee on Kosovo and Metohija, the committee on the rights of child, and the agriculture committee; a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization; and a member of Serbia's friendship groups with Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Russia.[21]

In June 2023, Kostić accused Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić of abandoning Kosovo Serbs in the ongoing North Kosovo crisis.[22]

Dveri contested the 2023 parliamentary election in an alliance with the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ), and Kostić was given the fourth position on their combined list.[23] The list did not cross the electoral threshold, and his second term ended when the new parliament convened in February 2024. Kostić also received the symbolic 120th position out of 120 on a combined Oathkeepers–Dveri list in the concurrent 2023 Vojvodina provincial election.[24] The list, too, failed to cross the threshold.

In March 2024, Kostić called on the National Democratic Alternative (NADA) to initiate a new coalition of opposition right-wing parties, which he said Dveri was willing to join.[25]

Although Dveri did not field a list in Vrbas for the 2024 Serbian local elections, Kostić appeared in the fourth position on an independent list called Let's Free Vrbas Today and was elected when the list won ten mandates.[26][27] The Serbian Progressive Party and its allies won a majority of seats.

Party leader

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Boško Obradović resigned as Dveri leader after the party's poor performance in the 2023 elections, and the party was led by a collective leadership until 29 September 2024, when Kostić was elected to the role. In a statement released on the day of his election, Dveri pledged to support Serbia's political and economic sovereignty and the traditional family structure, and to protect the country's environment from what it described as the combined threat of Vučić's government and the Rio Tinto corporation.[28]

Notes

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  1. ^ Formally known as the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism, and Energy.
  2. ^ Formally known as the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management.

References

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  1. ^ IVAN KOSTIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 October 2017.
  2. ^ Мр Иван Костић, Dveri, accessed 20 July 2023.
  3. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 10 - “ДВЕРИ ЗА СРПСКУ ВОЈВОДИНУ” - кандидати за посланике) (2012), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 22 April 2024.
  4. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 ДВЕРИ ЗА ЖИВОТ СРБИЈЕ), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 April 2024.
  5. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 48 Number 10 (2 October 2013), p. 14.
  6. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9 ДВЕРИ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  7. ^ For the 2013 municipal results, see Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 48 Number 11 (14 October 2013), p. 3.
  8. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 7 - ДВЕРИ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ – САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ – БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ) (2016), Archived 2021-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 22 April 2024.
  9. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 24. април 2016. године – Изборне листе (5 ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Mr Ivan Kostić: Očekujem konstruktivan i efikasan rad Odbora za dijasporu i Srbe u regionu", Beta, 7 July 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Poslanik Dveri na čelu skupštinskog Odbora za dijasporu", Blic (Sources: Beta, Tanjug), 7 July 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  12. ^ "Osnivanje Nacionalnog saveta Srba u Sloveniji 1. oktobra", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 8 September 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  13. ^ "Kostić: Organizovaćemo debatu o položaju Srba u BiH", Blic, 3 September 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  14. ^ Sixth Sitting of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, National Assembly of Serbia, 19 April 2017, accessed 5 October 2017.
  15. ^ M. R. Milenković, "Smenjen Ivan Kostić predsednik Odbora za dijasporu", Danas, 17 May 2018, accessed 14 February 2021.
  16. ^ Мр Иван Костић, Dveri, accessed 20 July 2023.
  17. ^ IVAN mr KOSTIĆ, Archived 2020-01-23 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 April 2024.
  18. ^ Mirjana R. Milenković, "Ivan Kostić: Idealista", Danas, 20 May 2020, accessed 14 February 2021.
  19. ^ Vojin Radovanović, "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Patriotskog bloka za kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 23 February 2022, accessed 20 July 2023.
  20. ^ "Ivan Kostić (Dveri) predstavio platoformu od deset tačaka za Kosovo i Metohiju", Danas, 15 August 2022, accessed 20 July 2023.
  21. ^ IVAN MA KOSTIC, Archived 2023-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 April 2024.
  22. ^ "Kostić (Dveri) pita: Da li je nova Vučićeva ideja da se Srbi sa Kosova isele u centralnu Srbiju", Beta, 3 July 2023, accessed 20 July 2023.
  23. ^ "Proglašena izborna lista stranke Zavetnici i pokreta Dveri: Pogledajte ko su kandidati", Danas, 5 November 2023, accessed 22 April 2024.
  24. ^ АРХИВА: ИЗБОРИ 2023 – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ КАНДИДАТА ЗА ПОСЛАНИКЕ (Изборна листа 11 – МИЛИЦА ЂУРЂЕВИЋ СТАМЕНКОВСКИ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ - НАЦИОНАЛНО ОКУПЉАЊЕ - ДРЖАВОТВОРНА СНАГА - Српска странка Заветници - Српски покрет Двери), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 April 2024.
  25. ^ "Narodna stranka i Dosta je bilo čekaju Dveri, a Dveri poziv koalicije NADA za zajednički nastup desnice na beogradskim izborima", Danas, 5 March 2024, accessed 22 April 2024.
  26. ^ Изборне листе - Избори 2024.: Изборна листа ГГ „Ослободимо Врбас данас", Izbori 2024 – Municipality of Vrbas, Municipality of Vrbas Elections, accessed 12 June 2024.
  27. ^ РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА: РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА - ИЗБОРИ ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ ВРБАС - 2. ЈУН 2024. ГОДИНЕ, Municipality of Vrbas Elections, accessed 12 June 2024.
  28. ^ "Ivan Kostić novi predsednik Narodnog pokreta Dveri", N1, 29 September 2024, accessed 13 October 2024.
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