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Vojin Biljić

Vojin Biljić (Serbian Cyrillic: Војин Биљић; born 1977) is a Serbian politician. He served in the Serbian national assembly from 2019 to 2020 as a member of Enough Is Enough (DJB).

Vojin Biljić
Војин Биљић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
13 February 2019 – 3 August 2020
Personal details
Born1977
Užice, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyDJB (2014–present)

Early life and private career

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Biljić was born in Užice, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 2002, completed advanced specialist studies in European Union law at Nancy 2 University in France in 2003, and subsequently enrolled in post-graduate studies in Belgrade. Biljić passed the bar exam in 2005 and began a private law practice in the same year, specializing in European law.

He received the rank of reserve second lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro in 2005.[2]

Politician

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Biljić joined DJB on its formation in 2014, when the movement was considered liberal and reformist.[3] He was given the twenty-first position on its electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election; the list won sixteen mandates, and he was not immediately elected.[4] He also received the fifth position on the movement's list for the Belgrade municipality of Vračar in the concurrent 2016 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won seven mandates.[5][6] He served in the municipal assembly for the four-year term that followed.[7]

For the 2018 Belgrade city assembly election, DJB somewhat unexpectedly formed an alliance with the hard-right Dveri party, and Biljić appeared in the lead position on their combined list.[8][9] During the campaign, he acknowledged that DJB and Dveri had profoundly different ideologies but defended the coalition as necessary to fight corruption in the country. He also argued for reducing the price of public transportation and providing free textbooks and kindergarten courses.[10] The DJB–Dveri list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the city assembly.

DJB itself shifted to the radical right following the 2018 election, prompting a number of resignations. Biljić remained a member of the movement.

Parliamentarian

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Biljić was awarded a national assembly mandate in January 2019 as a replacement for Jasmina Nikolić, who had resigned.[11][12] He took his seat on 13 February and served in opposition to Serbia's government dominated by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) for the remainder of the 2016–20 term.[13]

The DJB movement contested the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election as the dominant party in the Sovereignists coalition. Biljić appeared in the third position on its list, which did not cross the electoral threshold.[14] The coalition did not field a list in Vračar in the concurrent 2020 Serbian local elections, and his term in the municipal assembly came to an end.[15]

2022 and 2023 elections

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Biljić was the mayoral candidate of the Sovereignists alliance in the 2022 Belgrade city assembly election and held the lead position on its electoral list.[a][16][17] He again ran on an anti-corruption platform and charged that Serbia's sovereignty was being ceded to supranational organizations such as the European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and, with reference to COVID-19 social restrictions, the World Health Organization.[18][19] The list did not cross the electoral threshold. Biljić also appeared in the fourth position on the Sovereignists list in the concurrent 2022 parliamentary election.[20] This list also failed to cross the threshold.

DJB contested the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party (SDS), and Biljić appeared in the fifth position on their combined list.[21] He also appeared in the sixth position on the alliance's list in the concurrent Belgrade city assembly election.[22] The alliance did not cross the threshold at either level.

Notes

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  1. ^ Serbian mayors are not directly elected; Biljić was technically DJB's presumptive nominee for mayor in the event that the party won the election.

References

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  1. ^ Војин Биљић – Биографија, Enough Is Enough, 15 July 2017, accessed 27 December 2022.
  2. ^ Vojin Biljić: Specijalista evropskog prava, Biljić & Vidović, accessed 28 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Vojin Biljić kandidat Suverenista za gradonačelnika Beograda", N1, 18 February 2022, accessed 27 December 2022.
  4. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (17 ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО – САША РАДУЛОВИЋ), Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  5. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 30 (14 April 2016), p. 7.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 66 (24 June 2016), p. 1.
  7. ^ Одборници Скупштине Општине Врачар, Archived 2020-08-04 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Vračar, accessed 28 December 2022.
  8. ^ ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА, КАНДИДАТА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА БЕОГРАДА, 4. МАРТ 2018. ГОДИНЕ (Група грађана „ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО И ДВЕРИ – ДА ОВИ ОДУ, А ДА СЕ ОНИ НЕ ВРАТЕ“), Assembly of the City of Belgrade, accessed 22 January 2019.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 62 Number 17 (21 February 2018), p. 11.
  10. ^ Lidija Valtner, "Vojin Biljić: Svaki rezultat ispod dvocifrenog smatraćemo neuspehom", Danas, 5 February 2018, accessed 22 January 2019.
  11. ^ Додела мандата – Одлука о додели мандата народног посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 22. јануара 2019. године, Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 December 2022.
  12. ^ "Stranka moderne Srbije dobila još jednog poslanika u Skupštini, kao i DJB", Danas, 24 January 2019, accessed 24 January 2019.
  13. ^ VOJIN BILjIĆ, Archived 2020-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 December 2022.
  14. ^ ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (15 СУВЕРЕНИСТИ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2021.
  15. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 79 (22 June 2020), p. 4.
  16. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 66 Number 35 (18 March 2022), p. 19.
  17. ^ "Vojin Biljić kandidat Suverenista za gradonačelnika Beograda", N1, 18 February 2022, accessed 27 December 2022.
  18. ^ "Biljić (Suverenisti): Suverenizam važan da bismo mogli da očuvamo narod", N1, 31 March 2022, accessed 28 May 2024.
  19. ^ "Suverenisti: Da se u Srbiju vrati sistem u kome državu vode najbolji", N1, 31 March 2022, accessed 28 May 2024.
  20. ^ "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Suverenista", Danas, 22 February 2022, accessed 27 December 2022.
  21. ^ "RIK proglasio listu DJB-SDS: Ko je sve na ovoj listi", N1, 23 November 2023, accessed 27 May 2024.
  22. ^ "Ko je sve na listi DJB- SDS za beogradske izbore", N1, 25 November 2023, accessed 27 May 2023.
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