Ružica Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ружица Николић; 1976 – 25 October 2023) was a Serbian politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2017 to 2020 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.
Early life and career
editNikolić was born in Belgrade, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She was a surdologist (similar to an audiologist) based in her home city.[1]
Political career
editNikolić received the 184th position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election. The party won seventy-eight seats, and she was not included in its assembly delegation.[2][3] (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 awarded out of numerical order. Nikolić could have received a mandate despite her relatively low list position, although ultimately this did not occur.)[4]
The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, with many prominent members joining the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Ružica Nikolić remained with the Radicals.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Nikolić received the thirty-ninth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 election and the eighty-seventh position in the 2014 election.[5][6] On both occasions, the party failed to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.
Nikolić was promoted to the twenty-fourth position on the party's list for the 2016 election and was not immediately elected when the party won twenty-two seats.[7] She was awarded a mandate on 19 July 2017 as a replacement for Jovo Ostojić, who had recently died.[8][9] She served as an opposition member and was a member of the assembly's committee on human and minority rights and gender equality.[10]
Nikolić appeared in the thirty-sixth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2020 and the 2022 Serbian parliamentary elections.[11][12] In each case, the list failed to cross the electoral threshold.
Death
editRužica Nikolić died on 25 October 2023.[13]
References
edit- ^ RUŽICA NIKOLIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 30 April 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 30 April 2018.
- ^ 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, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
- ^ "Dejan Radenković i Ružica Nikolić novi poslanici u Skupštini", N1, 19 July 2017, accessed 30 April 2017.
- ^ Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 19. јула 2017. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 30 April 2018.
- ^ RUZICA NIKOLIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 30 April 2018.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi radikala?", Danas, 9 March 2020, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Ko su kandidati Srpske radikalne stranke za poslanike", Danas, 18 February 2022, accessed 3 June 2022.
- ^ Umrla Ružica Nikolić: Bila je zamenik generalnog sekretara Srpske radikalne stranke, telegraf.rs, accessed 25 October 2023.