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Dragan Bozalo

Dragan Bozalo (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Бозало; born 1 February 1970) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in National Assembly of Serbia, the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro, and the Assembly of Vojvodina, and was the mayor of Bačka Palanka for three terms. He is currently a member of the Municipal Assembly of Bačka Palanka. Bozalo is a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS).

Early life and career

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Bozalo was born in Bačka Palanka, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a chemical technician in private life.[1]

Politician

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Parliamentarian

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Bozalo became president of the Radical Party's municipal board in Bačka Palanka during the 1990s. He appeared in the first position on the party's electoral list for the Vrbas division (which included Bačka Palanka) in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won three mandates in the division.[2][3] (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 on the lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties. Bozalo automatically received a mandate by virtue of his list position.)[4] The election was won by the Socialist Party of Serbia and its allies, and the Radicals initially served in opposition. The Socialists subsequently formed a coalition government with the Radicals and the Yugoslav Left in early 1998, and Bozalo served as a supporter of the administration.

The Socialist-led administration in Serbia fell after Slobodan Milošević's defeat in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, and a new Serbian parliamentary election was scheduled for December 2000. For this election, the entire country was counted as a single electoral division and all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of the numerical order.[5] Bozalo appeared in the seventy-first position on the Radical list.[6] The list won twenty-three seats, and he was not included in the party's delegation.

Bozalo was given the fortieth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[7] The party won eighty-two seats on this occasion, emerging as the largest group in the assembly but ultimately falling well short of a majority and serving in opposition. Bozalo was included in his party's delegation when the assembly met in early 2004,[8] although his second term in the republican parliament was brief. By virtue of its performance in the 2003 parliamentary election, the Radicals won the right to appoint thirty members to the federal Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro. Bozalo was appointed to the federal assembly and so resigned his seat in the national assembly on 12 February 2004.[9] He served at the federal level for the next two years. The Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist in 2006, when Montenegro declared independence.

Bozalo also appeared on the Radical Party's lists in the 2007 and 2008 parliamentary elections, although he was not included in its delegation on either occasion.[10]

The Radical Party experienced a serious split following the 2008 election, with several of its members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Bozalo remained with the Radicals.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed again in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Bozalo appeared in the ninety-fourth position on the Radical party's list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election,[11] the fifty-sixth position in the 2014 election,[12] and the 123rd position in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[13] On each occasion, the party failed to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

Provincial politics

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Bozalo sought election to the Assembly of Vojvodina for Bačka Palanka's third division in the 2000 Vojvodina provincial election.[14] He lost to Petar Pešić of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia.[15] This was the last provincial election in Vojvodina held exclusively by voting in single-member constituencies; after the election, the province adopted a system of mixed proportional representation, in which half the delegates were elected in constituencies and the other half by proportional representation on electoral lists.

Bozalo was elected to the provincial assembly in the 2004 provincial election, winning the Bačka Palanka constituency seat in the second round. The Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) and its allies won the election, and Bozalo served as an opposition member for the next four years. He was defeated in his bid for re-election the 2008 provincial election.

He appeared in the seventeenth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 provincial election and was not elected when the party won five mandates.[16] Following this election, Vojvodina switched to a system of full proportional representation. Bozalo was given the twentieth position in the 2016 provincial election and missed election when the list won ten mandates.[17]

Bozalo received the eleventh position on the Radical Party's list in the 2020 Vojvodina provincial election.[18] The party won four seats, and he was once again not returned. It is possible, although unlikely, that he could re-enter the assembly in the current term as the replacement for another Radical Party member.

Municipal politics

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Bozalo sought election to the Bačka Palanka Municipal Assembly in the 2000 Serbian local elections, running in the twenty-seventh division.[19] The Radicals did not win any seats in the assembly. This was the last Serbian municipal electoral cycle to have constituency elections; all subsequent cycles have been held under proportional representation.

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors for the 2004 Serbian local elections. Bozalo stood as the Radical Party's candidate for mayor in Bačka Palanka and was elected over a candidate of the Socialist Party in the second round. He served for the next four years; during this time, the Radical Party also won a special off-year election for the municipal assembly in December 2005.[20]

The direct election of mayors was abandoned after 2004. Bozalo led the Radical Party to a narrow plurality victory in Bačka Palanka in the 2008 Serbian local elections and was appointed by the assembly to a second term as mayor after forming a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS).[21][22][23][24] Subsequently, however, both the Socialists and the DSS left their alliance with the Radicals to form a new coalition government with the Democratic Party (DS), and Bozalo stood down as mayor on 3 November 2008.[25][26] He returned to office in April 2010 after forming in a new coalition with the DSS and served the remainder of the term.[27] Party differences notwithstanding, Bozalo has said that he had an improved relationship with the DS-led provincial government during his final term as mayor.[28]

The Radicals finished in fourth place in Bačka Palanka in the 2012 local elections with seven seats out of forty-two, having lost much of their support to the Progressive Party.[29] The Socialists and the Progressives formed a new administration after the election, and the Radicals moved to opposition.[30] Bozalo appeared in the lead position on the Radical list and was elected as a member of the assembly.[31]

Bozalo has continued to lead the Radicals in Bačka Palanka since standing down as mayor. The party won four seats in the 2016 local elections and two seats in the 2020 local elections,[32][33][34][35] and has remained in opposition throughout this period. Bozalo continues to serve as a member of the municipal assembly as of 2021.[36]

Electoral record

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Provincial (Vojvodina)

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2008 Vojvodina assembly election
Bačka Palanka (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds[37]
Kosta Stakić For a European Vojvodina Democratic Party–G17 Plus, Boris Tadić (Affiliation: Democratic Party) 8,038 27.99 8,547 51.39
Dragan Bozalo (incumbent) Serbian Radical Party 10,701 37.26 8,085 48.61
Milorad Jović Mika Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) 3,346 11.65
Janko Čobrda Coalition: "Together for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak" 2,630 9.16
Goran Šatara Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia 2,464 8.58
Aleksandar Borocki Liberal Democratic Party 1,537 5.35
Total valid votes 28,716 100 16,632 100
Invalid ballots 1,353 344
Total votes casts 30,069 61.12 16,976 34.51
2004 Vojvodina assembly election
Bačka Palanka (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds[38]
Dragan Bozalo Serbian Radical Party 5,009 28.59 6,325 52.18
Mila Višekruna Socialist Party of Serbia 2,533 14.46 5,796 47.82
Đorđe Jamušakov Democratic Party–Boris Tadić 2,167 12.37
Slobodan Gvozdenović Democratic Party of Serbia 1,990 11.36
Milan Mirković Serbian Renewal Movement 1,656 9.45
Petar Pešić (incumbent) Together for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak 908 5.18
Vladimir Grujić G17 Plus 847 4.83
Jovo Radoš Citizens' Group 757 4.32
Stanko Lazendić Clean Hands of Vojvodina: Reformists of Vojvodina–Slovak Center–Otpor 521 2.97
Nenad Višekruna New Serbia 498 2.84
Marinko Srebro Citizens' Group: "Srebro Marinko" 364 2.08
Rade Mihajlović Serbian People's Movement 271 1.55
Total valid votes 17,521 100 12,121 100
Invalid ballots 783 190
Total votes casts 18,304 38.57 12,796 26.96

Municipal (Bačka Palanka)

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2004 Bačka Palanka municipal election
Mayor of Bačka Palanka[39]
Dragan Bozalo Serbian Radical Party 4,952 27.94 6,233 51.16
Slobodan Škorić Socialist Party of Serbia 2,717 15.33 5,951 48.84
Jovan Palalić Democratic Party of Serbia 2,645 14.92
Kosta Stakić Democratic Party 2,503 14.12
Milutin Rujević Strength of Serbia Movement 1,733 9.78
Goran Milošev New Serbia 951 5.37
Slobodan Stojnović Serbian Renewal Movement 911 5.14
Bogoljub Trkulja Citizens' Group 740 4.17
Tatjana Drobac Christian Democratic Party of Serbia 573 3.23
Total valid votes 17,725 100 12,184 100

References

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  1. ^ Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 7 Number 419 (Belgrade, September 1997), p. 15.
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  5. ^ 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.
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  10. ^ Bozalo received the sixty-ninth position in 2007 and the 149th in 2008. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021; and 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 2 July 2021. For his absence from the assembly, see 14 February 2007 legislature and 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
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  16. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 4 - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА-ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) - кандидати за посланике) Archived 2020-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 12 July 2021.
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  33. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 51 Number 12 (26 April 2016), pp. 2-3.
  34. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 56 Number 8 (10 June 2020), p. 214.
  35. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 56 Number 13 (22 June 2020), p. 2.
  36. ^ СПИСАК ОДБОРНИКА, Municipality of Bačka Palanka, accessed 12 July 2021.
  37. ^ Source: Избори мај 2008. године - резултати по већинском изборном систему (5 БАЧКА ПАЛАНКА) Archived 2021-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
  38. ^ Укупни резултати избора расписаних за 19. септембар 2004. године - већински изборни систем (5 БАЧКА ПАЛАНКА) Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
  39. ^ The first round results are copied in Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 15, Number 1969 (Bačka Palanka, October 2004), p. 3. The fact that Bozalo won the election in the second round is confirmed by ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "REPUBLICKI ZAVOD ZA STATISTIKU - Republike Srbije". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2021-07-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021.
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