Slobodan Veličković (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Величковић; born 19 June 1947) is a politician in Serbia. He has served three terms in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).
Private life
editVeličković is retired. Formerly based in Leskovac, he now lives in Belgrade.[1][2]
Political career
editVeličković has been a vice-president of the PUPS and has served for many years as president of its party organization in Leskovac.[3][4][5][6]
The PUPS contested the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia. Veličković received the twenty-sixth position on the Socialist-led electoral list and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.[7] Following the election, the PUPS joined a coalition government led by the Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialists, and Veličković served with the ministry's parliamentary majority. He received the forty-ninth position on the Socialist list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election; the list once again won forty-four mandates, and he was not initially returned. He was, however, awarded a mandate on 25 January 2016 as a replacement for Milan Korać, and served until the dissolution of the assembly for new elections later in the year.[8] The PUPS continued to support the ministry during this period.[9]
In early 2016, the PUPS ended its electoral alliance with the Socialist Party and formed a new alliance with the Progressive Party, contesting the 2016 parliamentary election on the latter's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list. Veličković received the 244th list position (out of 250). This was too low a position for direct election to be a realistic prospect, and indeed he was not re-elected even as the Progressive list won 131 out of 250 seats. He was nonetheless awarded a mandate on 3 March 2020 as a replacement for Vera Paunović and thereby re-entered the assembly in time to serve on its last officially scheduled day of business prior to the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[10] (Parliament was subsequently recalled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and served for a further five days.)
Veličković was not a candidate in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.
References
edit- ^ "Leskovac: samo 3 poslanika u Skupštini Srbije", Južne vesti, 8 June 2012, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ SLOBODAN VELIČKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ "Izabrani novi članovi predsedništva PUPS-a", Beta, 12 October 2018, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ D. Miljković, "Leskovac: PUPS pobrkao lončiće", Novosti, 6 July 2011, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ "VELIČKOVIĆ PONOVO PREDSEDNIK LESKOVAČKOG PUPS-A", vesti.rs (source: JuGmedia), 16 December 2014, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ "PUPS kao levica : Recite nam i PUPS će reći", Jugpress, 15 March 2019, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ 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 17 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 25. јануара 2016. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 16 June 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ M.R.M., "Veličković postao poslanik poslednjeg radnog dana parlamenta", Danas, 4 March 2020, accessed 16 June 2020.