Ognjen Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Огњен Михајловић; born 6 October 1960) is a journalist and politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia and the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS).
Private career
editMihajlović was a journalist with Televizija Sarajevo in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, prior to the Bosnian War (1992–95). During the war, he provided war correspondence from Otes that was sympathetic to the Army of Republika Srpska. He has also been the editor of the Radical Party journal Velika Srbija.[1]
He is married to Ljiljana Mihajlović, who is also a prominent figure in the SRS.
Politician
editMihajlović ran for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the 2000 Serbian local elections; he lost to Dušan Rakić of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS) in Zemun's second division. He subsequently appeared in the 217th position on the SRS's electoral list for the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won twenty-two mandates, and he was not included in the party's assembly delegation. (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. Mihajlović could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position on the list, though in the event he was not.)[3]
He appeared in the forty-fifth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2003 parliamentary election. The list won eighty-two mandates, and on this occasion he was chosen for its delegation.[4][5] Although the SRS won more seats than any other party in this election, it fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. Mihajlović's first term in the national assembly was in any event brief. By virtue of its performance in the 2003 parliamentary election, the Radical Party had the right to appoint thirty members to the federal assembly of Serbia and Montenegro; Mihajlović was included in the party's federal delegation and resigned from the national assembly on 12 February 2004.[6]
He appeared in the fourteenth position on the SRS's list for the municipal assembly of Zemun in the 2004 Serbian local elections. The party won twenty-six seats in the municipality, although he did not take a mandate.[7][8][9]
The federal assembly ceased to exist in 2006 when Montenegro declared independence. Mihajlović was given the twenty-third position on the SRS's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election and returned to the national assembly after the list won eighty-one seats.[10][11] The SRS again won more seats than any other party in this election, fell well short of a majority, and served in opposition.
Mihajlović again appeared on the SRS's list in the 2008 parliamentary election and was selected for a third assembly term after the list won seventy-eight mandates.[12][13] While the election results were initially inconclusive, the SRS ultimately remained in opposition. The party experienced a serious split later in the year, with several members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Mihajlović remained with the Radicals. In 2009, he was appointed to Serbia's delegation to the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy.[14]
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mihajlović received the fiftieth position on the SRS's list in the 2012 parliamentary election. The list did not receive enough votes to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.[15]
After leaving parliament, Mihajlović worked as the Belgrade correspondent for Radio Televizija Republike Srpske.[16]
Local (City Assembly of Belgrade)
edit| Svetko Lazović | Workers' Party of Yugoslavia | |
| Željko Mitrović | Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left (Affiliation: Yugoslav Left) | |
| Ognjen Mihajlović | Serbian Radical Party | |
| Ljubiša Popović | Serbian Renewal Movement | |
| Dušan Rakić | Democratic Opposition of Serbia | Elected |
| Branko Čičić | Natural Law Party |
References
edit- ^ "Šešeljev radikal i bivši urednik 'Velike Srbije' stoji iza incidenta u Beogradu", Klix, 5 May 2014, accessed 29 September 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ), 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.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2. СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 29 September 2021.
- ^ DRUGO VANREDNO ZASEDANJE, 12.02.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 29 September 2021.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 24 (8 September 2004), p. 48.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 32 (11 November 2004), p. 3.
- ^ In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order while the remaining two thirds were assigned to other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections Archived 2021-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
- ^ He received the twenty-second position on the list. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године (ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ – 4 СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
- ^ "Utvrđen sastav međunarodnih delegacija", 2 February 2009, accessed 29 September 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 September 2021.
- ^ "Šešeljev radikal i bivši urednik 'Velike Srbije' stoji iza incidenta u Beogradu", Klix, 5 May 2014, accessed 29 September 2021.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 13 (15 September 2000), p. 425; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 15 (20 October 2000), p. 469-470.