Zoran Despotović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Деспотовић; born 13 January 1965) is a politician in Serbia. He is currently serving his second term in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.
Private career
editDespotović is a veterinary technician based in Prijepolje.[1]
Political career
editDespotović received the 108th position on the Radical Party's electoral list in 2000 Serbian parliamentary election. The party won twenty-two seats, and he was not included in its assembly delegation.[2] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Despotović could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position on the list, although in the event he was not.)[3]
He was again included on the Radical Party's list for the 2007 parliamentary election, receiving the 225th position. The party won eighty-one seats, and Despotović was awarded a mandate.[4][5] Although the Radical Party won the largest number of seats in this election, it fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. The assembly dissolved in early 2008 for new elections; the Radicals fell to seventy-eight seats, and Despotović, who received the 123rd position on the party's list, was not included in its delegation in next sitting of the assembly.[6]
The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, with many members joining the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party led by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Despotović remained with the Radicals.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Despotović received the twenty-fifth position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2012 election and the seventeenth position in the 2014 election.[7] The part did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly on either occasion.
Despotović received the twenty-sixth position on the party's electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. The party won twenty-two seats in this election, and he was not immediately elected.[8] He was, however, able to take a mandate in the assembly on April 17, 2018, as a replacement for Zoran Krasić, who had died a few days earlier. Despotović once again serves as an opposition member.[9]
Despotović also served on Prijepolje's municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) from 2012 to 2016 and was elected to its municipal assembly in 2016.[10][11]
References
edit- ^ ZORAN DESPOTOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 April 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ), 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 одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 April 2018.
- ^ 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 17 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
- ^ Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народног посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 17. априла 2018. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 March 2017.
- ^ Одборници (ОДБОРНИЦИ СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ ПРИЈЕПОЉЕ), opstinaprijepolje.rs, accessed 21 April 2018.
- ^ Indira Hadžagić, "Интервју: Зоран Деспотовић, члан Општинског већа СЕЛО НАМ ДАЈЕ НОВИ ОПТИМИЗАМ", listpolimlje.info, 29 March 2016, accessed 18 April 2018.