Milan Latković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Латковић; born 2 December 1949) is a Serbian medical doctor and politician. He has served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia and one term in the Assembly of Vojvodina. Latković is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).
Medicine career
editLatković is a specialist surgeon. Prominent for many years in the political life of Sremska Mitrovica, he lived in the nearby village of Vitojevci in Ruma during his second national assembly term.[1] He was appointed as acting director of the Sremska Mitrovica Health Center in August 2012 and was promoted to full director in December of the same year.[2][3]
Politician
edit1990s
editLatković was elected for Sremska Mitrovica's first division in the 1996 Vojvodina provincial election. The Socialist Party won a majority victory, and he served as a supporter of the administration.
The SPS contested the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Yugoslav Left (JUL) and New Democracy (ND). Latković appeared in the lead position on the coalition's electoral list for the Sremska Mitrovica division and was elected when the list won three out of eight seats.[4] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be awarded to candidates from successful lists in numerical order while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or alliances.[5] Latković was automatically elected by virtue of his list position.) The SPS and its allies won the election, and Latković served as a government supporter at the republic level as well.
SPS leader Slobodan Milošević was defeated in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, and the party fell from its formerly dominant position in Serbian politics. Latković did not seek re-election in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, and online sources do not indicate if he was a candidate in the 2000 Vojvodina provincial election.
Since 2000
editAfter taking some time away from political life, Latković once again became active with the Socialist Party in 2008.[6] He ran for Sremska Mitrovica in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election and was defeated. He also appeared on the SPS's list for Sremska Mitrovica in the concurrent 2008 Serbian local elections; the list did not cross the threshold for representation in the local assembly.[7]
In 2011, Serbia's electoral laws were reformed so that all mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Latković was given the 110th position on the SPS's list in the 2012 parliamentary election.[8] This was too low for election to be a realistic prospect, and he was not elected when the list won forty-four mandates. He led the SPS list for Sremska Mitrovica in the concurrent 2012 local elections and was elected when the list won seven mandates; he resigned his seat later in the year after being appointed as director of the city's health centre.[9][10]
Latković received the thirty-first position on the SPS's coalition list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was elected to a second term in the national assembly when the list won forty-four mandates.[11] The SPS participated in Serbia's coalition government after the election, and he once again served as a government supporter. In the 2014–16 parliament, he was a member of the health and family committee; a deputy member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), Montenegro, and Poland.[12] He was not a candidate in the 2016 parliamentary election.
He was re-elected to the Sremska Mitrovica city assembly in the 2016 and 2020 local elections.[13][14] He resigned his seat on 18 December 2020.[15]
Electoral record
editProvincial (Vojvodina)
edit| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Goran Ivić | "For a European Vojvodina, Democratic Party–G17 Plus, Boris Tadić" (Affiliation: Democratic Party) | 14,912 | 33.50 | 15,822 | 63.30 | |
| Dragan Vulin | Serbian Radical Party | 10,279 | 23.09 | 9,173 | 36.70 | |
| Zoran Miščević | Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia–Vojislav Koštunica (Affiliation: Democratic Party of Serbia) | 9,225 | 20.72 | |||
| Milan Latković | Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia) | 4,822 | 10.83 | |||
| Zoran Vasiljević | Liberal Democratic Party | 3,116 | 7.00 | |||
| Miroljub Milić Bata | Together for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak | 1,554 | 3.49 | |||
| Ljubomir Samardžić | Citizens' Group: Yes for Mitrovica | 611 | 1.37 | |||
| Total | 44,519 | 100.00 | 24,995 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 44,519 | 96.48 | 24,995 | 98.29 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,626 | 3.52 | 435 | 1.71 | ||
| Total votes | 46,145 | 100.00 | 25,430 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: [16] | ||||||
| Candidate | Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Milan Latković (***WINNER***) | Socialist Party of Serbia | |
| other candidates | ||
| Total | ||
| Source: [17] | ||
References
edit- ^ MILAN Dr LATKOVIC, Archived 2014-12-31 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 12 August 2023.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 4 Number 13 (17 August 2012), p. 77.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 4 Number 18 (18 December 2012), p. 44.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (11 Сремска Митровица), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 December 2022.
- ^ Guide to the Early Election Archived 2022-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Serbia: SPS gains new sympathizers, reinstalls old cadres," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 15 April 2008 (Source: Vecernje novosti, Belgrade, in Serbian 15 Apr 08).
- ^ Latković appeared fifth on the list. See Službeni List (Opštine Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 4 Number 4 (29 April 2008), p. 11; Službeni List (Opštine Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 4 Number 6 (14 May 2008), p. 5.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)"), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 4 Number 5 (23 April 2012), p. 9; Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 4 Number 9 (20 May 2012), pp. 3-4.
- ^ The Sremska Mitrovica official gazette does not indicate the date Latković left the assembly. For confirmation that he left the assembly later in the year, compare Oдбoрници Скупштинe грaдa Archived 2012-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, City of Sremska Mitrovica, accessed 12 August 2023; and Oдбoрници Скупштинe грaдa Archived 2012-10-13 at the Wayback Machine, City of Sremska Mitrovica, accessed 12 August 2023.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)"), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 August 2021.
- ^ MILAN Dr LATKOVIC, Archived 31 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 12 August 2023.
- ^ He received the lead position in the 2016 election and was elected when the list won six mandates. See Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 8 Number 6 (13 April 2016), p. 14; Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 8 Number 8 (25 April 2016), pp. 2-3.
- ^ He received the second position in the 2020 election and was elected when the list again won six mandates. See Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 12 Number 14 (10 June 2020), p. 3; Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 12 Number 18 (24 June 2020), p. 3.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Sremska Mitrovica), Volume 12 Number 31 (18 December 2020), p. 151.
- ^ Избори мај 2008. године - резултати по већинском изборном систему (50 СРЕМСКА МИТРОВИЦА), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
- ^ Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине одржаних 3. и 17. новембра 1996. године, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 April 2017.