Stanko Studen (Serbian Cyrillic: Станко Студен; born 31 March 1946) is a former politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 1994 to 1998 and was Serbia's deputy minister of agriculture from 1998 to 2000. During his time as an elected official, Studen was a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS).
Early life and career
editStuden was born in Vrbas, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He trained as a medical doctor, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry (Department of Medical Biochemistry) in 1991.[1][2] He subsequently lived in Kula.
Politician
editStuden appeared in the thirteen position on the Radical Party's electoral list for the Novi Sad division in the 1993 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won seven seats, and he was included in the party's assembly delegation.[3][4] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned 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.[5] It was common practice for the latter mandates to be awarded out of order. Studen's comparatively low position on the list did not prevent him from receiving a mandate.) Studen took his seat when the assembly convened in January 1994.[6] The Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) won the election, and the Radicals served in opposition.
Studen was given the lead position on the SRS's list for the redistributed Sombor division in the 1997 parliamentary election and was given an automatic mandate when the list won three seats.[7][8] The SPS won the election again, but the Radicals significantly increased their seat total. In March 1998, the Radicals joined a coalition government led by the Socialists. Studen was appointed as deputy minister of agriculture, working with Socialist Party minister Jovan Babović. By virtue of holding this position, he was required to resign from parliament, which he did on 26 May 1998.[9] In February 2000, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War, he was one of a number of Serbian ad Yugoslavian officials placed on a six-month travel ban to European Union countries.[10]
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) introduced direct election for its parliament's upper house (i.e., the Chamber of Republics) in the 2000 general election; the vote was conducted under proportional representation. Studen appeared in the seventh position on the Radical Party's list; the Radicals only won two seats, and he was not elected.[11] He also ran for Kula's second division in the concurrent 2000 Vojvodina provincial election and for the municipality's sixth seat in the 2000 Serbian local elections and was defeated in both contests.[12]
Slobodan Milošević was defeated for the Yugoslavian presidency in the 2000 election, a watershed moment in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. Serbia's government fell shortly after the Yugoslavian vote, and an interim ministry was established that did not include the Radicals; Studen's term as deputy minister came to an end in October 2000. A new Serbian parliamentary election was held in December of the same year; prior to the election, Serbia's electoral laws were reformed such that the entire country was counted as a single electoral division and all mandates were awarded to candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.[13] Studen was given the thirty-third position on the Radical Party's list.[14] The list won twenty-three mandates, and he was not included in the party's delegation. He later left the Radical Party.
Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 Serbian local elections. Radical Party candidate Tihomir Đuričić was elected as mayor of Kula and but defeated in a recall election in 2006.[15] Studen was a candidate in the subsequent mayoral by-election, running as the candidate for a local coalition called the "Patriotic Alliance of Kula." He was defeated in the first round of voting.
Electoral record
edit| Candidate | Party or Coalition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Marija Popin | Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Affiliation: New Democracy) | elected |
| Stanko Studen | Serbian Radical Party | |
| other candidates |
Local (Kula)
edit| Candidate | Party or Coalition | Votes | % | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Svetozar Bukvić | Democratic Party | not listed | 38.46 | not listed | 53.55 | |
| Tihomir Đuričić | Serbian Radical Party | not listed | 32.78 | not listed | 46.45 | |
| Smiljana Vukelić | Socialist Party of Serbia | not listed | not listed | not listed | ||
| Hercen Radonjić | Green Party (Stranka Zelenih) | not listed | not listed | not listed | ||
| Stanko Studen | Citizens' Group: Patriotic Alliance of Kula | not listed | not listed | not listed | ||
| Total valid votes | not listed | 100 | not listed | 100 |
References
edit- ^ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 7 Number 144 (Belgrade, October 1996), p. 5.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 8 Number 419 (Belgrade, September 1997), p. 13.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 Нови Сад), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 50 Number 11 (25 January 1994), p. 194.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Сомбор), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године (Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997.) године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ TREĆA SEDNICA, PRVOG REDOVNOG ZASEDANJA, 26.05.1998., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Za 233 imena proširen spisak", Glas javnosti, 29 February 2000, accessed 25 February 2022.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 901 (Belgrade, September 2000), p. 18.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 1201 (Belgrade, September 2000), pp. 6, 13. The Radicals did not win any seats in Kula in the 2000 local elections. See Izbori, 2000. Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 43.
- ^ 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 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.
- ^ "Izbori u Kuli, Kovinu...", B92, 25 June 2006, accessed 22 February 2022.
- ^ Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине одржаних 24. септембра и 8. октобра 2000. године, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 July 2021; Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 1201 (Belgrade, September 2000), p. 6.
- ^ "Izbori u Kuli, Kovinu...", B92, 25 June 2006, accessed 22 February 2022; "Poverenje Ugljaninu", B92, 26 June 2006, accessed 22 February 2022; "Novi predsednici tri opštine", B92, 10 July 2006, accessed 22 February 2022.