Slobodan Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Михајловић; born 26 March 1957) is a Serbian politician. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 as a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).
Private career
editMihajlović was born in Kraljevo, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics and worked for several years with Elektrosrbija Kraljevo, eventually rising to the position of director.[1][2] In 2005, he accused former Kraljevo mayor Ljubiša Jovašević from the rival Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) of exerting de facto control over the utility and undermining its work.[3]
Politician
editMihajlović became politically active in 1996 and was a prominent member of the Democratic Party's Kraljevo board by the early 2000s. He was the party's candidate for mayor of Kraljevo in a special off-year election in November 2003 and finished fifth against Radoslav Jović of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO).
The following month, he appeared in the 232nd position (out of 250) on the DS's electoral list for the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[4] The list won thirty-seven seats; he was not initially included in his party's delegation but received a mandate on 17 February 2004 as the replacement for another member who had resigned.[5] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Mihajlović's position on the list – which was in any case mostly alphabetical – had no formal bearing on whether or when received a mandate.)[6] The DS served in opposition for the parliament that followed, and Mihajlović was a member of the industry committee.[7]
Jović resigned as mayor of Kraljevo in late 2005, and a by-election was held in February 2006 to choose his replacement. Mihajlović once again ran as the DS's candidate and finished third. He did not appear on the DS's list in the 2007 parliamentary election, and his assembly term ended in that year.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were assigned in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mihaljlović received the fifth position on the DS's list for Kraljevo in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected to the city assembly when the list won thirteen out of seventy seats.[8][9] The DS served in opposition in the term that followed.[10] Mihajlović did not seek re-election in 2016 and has not returned to public life since this time.
Electoral record
editLocal (Kraljevo)
edit| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Dr. Miloš Babić | New Serbia–Velimir Ilić | 14,509 | 42.07 | 20,068 | 76.84 | |
| Miljko Četrović | Serbian Radical Party | 5,477 | 15.88 | 6,048 | 23.16 | |
| Slobodan Mihajlović | Democratic Party–Boris Tadić | 3,658 | 10.61 | |||
| Zvonko Obradović | G17 Plus | 2,947 | 8.54 | |||
| Mirko Vuković | Serbian Renewal Movement | 2,674 | 7.75 | |||
| Prof. Dr. Dragoslav Kočović | Socialist Party of Serbia | 1,713 | 4.97 | |||
| Đorđe Pavlović | Strength of Serbia Movement–Bogoljub Karić | 1,622 | 4.70 | |||
| Dr. Zoran Miljković | Citizens' Group: Movement: Kraljevo Above All | 1,336 | 3.87 | |||
| Zoran Jovanović | People's Party | 553 | 1.60 | |||
| Total | 34,489 | 100.00 | 26,116 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 34,489 | 98.51 | 26,116 | 98.46 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 523 | 1.49 | 409 | 1.54 | ||
| Total votes | 35,012 | 100.00 | 26,525 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 102,152 | 34.27 | 102,152 | 25.97 | ||
| Source: [11] | ||||||
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Dr. Radoslav Jović | Serbian Renewal Movement | 10,514 | 22.34 | 17,230 | 58.99 | |
| Dr. Ljubiša Jovašević | Democratic Party of Serbia–People's Democratic Party–Vojislav Koštunica | 7,618 | 16.19 | 11,978 | 41.01 | |
| Miroslav Karapandžić | Citizens' Group: For Kraljevo | 5,542 | 11.78 | |||
| Zvonko Obradović | G17 Plus | 5,204 | 11.06 | |||
| Slobodan Mihajlović | Democratic Party | 5,192 | 11.03 | |||
| Miljko Četrović | Serbian Radical Party | 4,375 | 9.30 | |||
| Sreten Jovanović | Socialist Party of Serbia | 3,079 | 6.54 | |||
| Prof. Dr. Predrag Stojanović Peđa | Christian Democratic Party of Serbia | 2,607 | 5.54 | |||
| Zoran Jovanović | People's Party and "Revival of Serbia" | 1,772 | 3.77 | |||
| Stamenka Arsić | Liberals of Serbia and Democratic Centre | 1,152 | 2.45 | |||
| Total | 47,055 | 100.00 | 29,208 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 47,055 | 96.96 | 29,208 | 98.15 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,477 | 3.04 | 550 | 1.85 | ||
| Total votes | 48,532 | 100.00 | 29,758 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 101,521 | 47.80 | 101,521 | 29.31 | ||
| Source: [12][13] | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Rajko Sarić, "Birati, izabrati, probrati?", Archived 2009-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, kraljevo.com, accessed 27 November 2022.
- ^ "Elektroras ponovo ogranak Elektrosrbije", Radio STO Plus, 29 June 2011, accessed 27 November 2022.
- ^ "Ko je krao struju, ko delio placeve?", Glas javnosti, 19 March 2005, accessed 27 November 2022.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА – БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ TREĆE VANREDNO ZASEDANJE, 17.02.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 November 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: МИХАЈЛОВИЋ, СЛОБОДАН, Archived 2006-12-15 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 November 2022.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Kraljeva), Volume 55 Number 7 (24 April 2012), p. 39.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Karljeva), Volume 45 Number 8 (7 May 2012), p. 164.
- ^ "SNS i SPS na vlasti i u Kraljevu", B92, 24 July 2012, accessed 27 November 2022.
- ^ IZBORI ZA PREDSEDNIKA OPŠTINA U KRALJEVU I BEČEJU, Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), February 2006, accessed 22 November 2022.
- ^ LOKALNI IZBORI U KRALJEVU I PIROTU, Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), November 2003, accessed 24 November 2022.
- ^ Slobodan Rajić, "Dva lekara u drugom krugu", Archived 2009-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, kraljevo.com, accessed 28 November 2022.