Vojislav Vujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Вујић; born 29 October 1975) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of United Serbia (Jedinstvena Srbija, JS).
Early life and career
editVujić was born in Aleksandrovac, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a degree in economics, was commercial director of the fashion company Todor from 2000 to 2007, and worked at Eurobank Ergasias from 2007 to 2008.[1] He lives in Vrnjačka Banja.[2]
Political career
editUnited Serbia has been aligned with the Socialist Party of Serbia since 2008. In the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election, Vujić received the fifty-first position on the Socialist-led electoral list, which was mostly arranged in alphabetical order.[3] The list won twenty mandates, of which three were apportioned to United Serbia, and Vujić was not included in his party's delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates in Serbia were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Vujić could have been awarded a mandate notwithstanding his comparatively low list position, although in the event he was not.)[4]
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Vujić was awarded the twenty-seventh position on the Socialist-led list and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.[5] The Socialist Party formed a coalition government with the Serbian Progressive Party after the election, and United Serbia provided support to the administration in the assembly. Vujić was re-elected in the 2014 and 2016 elections;[6] the Socialists have remained in government throughout this time, and United Serbia has continued to support the ministry.
Vujić is currently a member of the assembly's committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legal issues and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of a subcommittee for the consideration of reports on audits conducted by the state audit institution; a member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Greece, Russia, and Turkey.[7]
He serves on the presidency of United Serbia.
References
edit- ^ VOJISLAV VUJIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 July 2018.
- ^ VOJISLAV VUJIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 July 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 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 (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
- ^ Vujić again received the twenty-seventh position in 2014 and was re-elected when the list again won forty-four seats. He was promoted to the twenty-second position in 2016 and was elected to a third term when the list won twenty-nine seats. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017; and Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
- ^ VOJISLAV VUJIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 July 2018.