Jovan Lazarov (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Лазаров; born 1977) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2020 and is now a member of the Pančevo city assembly. Lazarov is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).

Private career

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Lazarov is a graduated economist. He lives in Pančevo.[1]

Politician

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Lazarov was first elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2012 provincial election, winning Pančevo's third constituency seat in the second round. The election was won by the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) and its allies, and Lazarov served for the next four years in opposition. He was the deputy chair of the budget and finance committee and a member of the informal green parliamentary group.[2]

Vojvodina switched to a system of full proportional representation prior to the 2016 provincial election. Lazarov was given the fifty-first position on the Progressive Party's electoral list and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 seats.[3] During his second term, he served as president of the committee for budget and finance.[4] He also served for a short time as a member of the management board for Pančevo's pre-school institution Dečja radost. His membership on this committee was controversial; the city's educational inspection unit determined he was in a conflict-of-interest situation as his child attended the institution.[5] He did not seek re-election at the provincial level in 2020.

He was given the seventeenth position on the Progressive Party's list in Pančevo for the 2020 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a majority victory with forty-seven out of seventy mandates.[6][7]

Electoral record

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Provincial (Vojvodina)

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2012 Vojvodina assembly election
Pančevo III (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds
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Jovan Lazarov Let's Get Vojvodina Moving (Affiliation: Serbian Progressive Party) 3,834 20.70 7,742 51.83
Predrag Škaljak Democratic Party of Serbia 2,789 15.06 7,194 48.17
Branko Bokun Saša Pavlov–United for Pančevo–United Regions of Serbia 2,783 15.03
Siniša Kojić (incumbent) Choice for a Better Vojvodina 2,341 12.64
Sebastian Flora Socialist Party of SerbiaParty of United Pensioners of SerbiaUnited SerbiaSocial Democratic Party of Serbia 2,129 11.50
Oliver Petković League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina 1,688 9.11
Zoran Vujasinović Serbian Radical Party 1,482 8.00
Siniša Mitreski Preokret 1,076 5.81
Petar Pančevac Citizens' Group: Association of Citizens Arch 399 2.15
Total valid votes 18,521 100 14,936 100

References

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  1. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  2. ^ Jovan Lazarov, Zelena poslanička grupa, accessed 17 April 2021.
  3. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  4. ^ "'Политика окупљања око пројеката донела одличне резултате'", Dnevnik, 20 February 2018, accessed 17 April 2021.
  5. ^ "PANČEVO: Jovan Lazarov podneo ostavku na članstvo u Upravnom odboru 'Dečje radosti'", 013info.rs, 9 June 2018, accessed 17 April 2021.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 12 Number 34 (10 June 2020), p. 1.
  7. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 12 Number 36 (23 June 2020), p. 1.
  8. ^ Source: Резултати избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине по већинском изборном систему (2012) (41 Панчево III), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 August 2017.