Nikola Dragićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Драгићевић; born 8 November 1994) is a Serbian politician. He served in the Serbian national assembly from 2022 to 2024 and has been a member of the Belgrade city council since June 2024. Dragićević is a member of the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ).
Nikola Dragićević | |
|---|---|
| Никола Драгићевић | |
| Member of the City Council of Belgrade | |
| Assumed office 24 June 2024 | |
| Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia | |
| In office 1 August 2022 – 6 February 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 November 1994 |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Political party | SSZ |
Private career
editDragićević was a graduate student in political science st the time of the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election. He lives in the Belgrade municipality of Čukarica.[1]
Politician
editDragićević was the president of the Oathkeepers executive board in 2017. In that year, he took part in a party delegation to Moscow that signed a cooperation agreement with Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.[2]
He appeared in the twelfth position on the SSZ's electoral list in the 2018 Belgrade city assembly election. The list did not cross the electoral threshold.[3] He later appeared in the fourth position on the party's list in the 2020 parliamentary election and the fifteenth position (out of fifteen) on its list for the Čukarica municipal assembly in the concurrent 2020 Serbian local elections.[4][5] The party again fell below the threshold in both contests.
Parliamentarian
editDragićević again received the fourth position on the SSZ list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was this time elected when it won ten seats.[6] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won the election, and the SSZ served in opposition. Dragićević was deputy leader of his party's assembly group in the term that followed. He was also a member of the defence and internal affairs committee, the administrative committee,[a] and the security services control committee; a deputy member of the education committee,[b] the committee on Kosovo and Metohija, and the culture and information committee; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Vietnam; and a member of the friendship groups with Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Syria, and Tajikistan[7]
He was the SSZ's representative on the Belgrade election commission for the 2022 city assembly election, which was held concurrently with the parliamentary election. In the aftermath of the vote, he rejected calls from the opposition United for the Victory of Serbia and We Must (Moramo) coalitions for repeat voting in certain areas. The opposition parties accused the SSZ of acting at the behest of the SNS, a charge that Dragićević denied.[8] Dragićević himself appeared in the honorary 110th position (out of 110) on the SSZ's list for the Belgrade assembly; election from this position was a mathematical impossibility, and he was not elected when the list won four mandates.[9]
The SSZ formed an alliance with Dveri prior to the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election, and Dragićević appeared in the seventh position on their combined list.[10] The list did not cross the electoral threshold, and his term ended when the new assembly convened in early 2024. He also appeared in the third position on a SSZ–Dveri list in the 2023 Belgrade city election; this list too failed to cross the threshold.[11]
The SSZ–Dveri alliance broke down after the 2023 vote, and the SSZ joined the coalition around the Progressive Party in advance of the 2024 Serbian local elections. The SNS's list in Čukarica included two SSZ candidates: Jovan Pavićević in the twenty-second position and Dragićević in the forty-fifth and final position.[12] The list won a majority victory with twenty-six seats; Pavićević was elected, and Dragićević will have the right to take his place if he leaves the assembly for any reason.[13]
Aleksandar Šapić was chosen as mayor of Belgrade by the city assembly on 24 June 2024, leading a coalition government that included the Oathkeepers. Dragićević was elected on the same day as a member of city council (i.e., the executive branch of the city government).[14][15]
Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ NIKOLA DRAGICEVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 16 September 2022.
- ^ "Omladine Zavetnika i Putinove Jedinstvene Rusije potpisale Sporazum o saradnji!", srbin.info, 20 March 2017, accessed 16 September 2022.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 62 Number 17 (21 February 2018), p. 16.
- ^ "Ko su kandidati Zavetnika za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 16 March 2020, accessed 15 September 2022.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 72 (10 June 2020), p. 48.
- ^ "Ko su kandidati za poslanike Srpske stranke Zavetnici?", Danas, 20 February 2022, accessed 15 September 2022.
- ^ NIKOLA DRAGICEVIC, Archived 2023-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 27 March 2023, accessed 12 May 2024.
- ^ Snežana Čongradin, "Predstavnik Zavetnika u GIK: Ne možemo Tadića na silu da uguramo u beogradsku vlast", Danas, 11 April 2022, accessed 16 September 2022.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 66 Number 35 (18 March 2022), p. 9.
- ^ "Proglašena izborna lista stranke Zavetnici i pokreta Dveri: Pogledajte ko su kandidati", Danas, 5 November 2023, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ "Ko je sve na izbornoj listi Zavetnika i Dveri u Beogradu?", N1, 13 November 2023, accessed 13 May 2024.
- ^ ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА БР. 1 АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - ЧУКАРИЦА СУТРА, Local Election 2 June 2024, Čukarica City Municipality Election Commission, accessed 7 August 2024.
- ^ УКУПАН ИЗВЕШТАЈ О РЕЗУЛТАТИМА ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДСКЕ ОПШТИНЕ ЧУКАРИЦА, Čukarica City Municipality Election Commission, 11 June 2024, accessed 17 June 2024.
- ^ "Aleksandar Šapić izabran za gradonačelnika Beograda: Možete da me zovete odlazeći, poručuje", Danas, 24 June 2024, accessed 12 November 2024.
- ^ Nikola Dragićević: Član Gradskog veća, City of Belgrade, accessed 12 November 2024.