Dimitrije Jovanović

Dimitrije Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Јовановић; born 28 August 1954) is a politician in Serbia. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2001 to 2004, serving with the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS). He later joined the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) and became a member of the municipal council in his home community of Aranđelovac.

Private career

Jovanović is a graduated pharmacist.[1] His grandfather, Dimitrije K. Jovanović, was a senator in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941.[2]

Politician

The DS participated in a multi-party coalition called the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS) for the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, and Jovanović appeared in the 206th position on the DOS's electoral list.[3] The list won a landslide majority victory with 176 out of 250 mandates. He was not initially included in his party's assembly delegation but was given a mandate on 17 December 2001 as the replacement for another DS member. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to successful parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Jovanović's list position had no formal bearing on whether or when he received a mandate.)[4] In parliament, he served as a member of the committee on Kosovo and Metohija.[5]

The DOS alliance ended in late 2003, and the DS contested the 2003 parliamentary election on its own. Jovanović was given the seventy-third position on the party's list.[6] The list won thirty-seven seats, and he was not chosen for a new parliamentary mandate. His term came to an end in January 2004.

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 Serbian local elections. Jovanović ran for mayor of Aranđelovac with a combined endorsement from the DS and the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO). He was defeated in the second round by a candidate of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska Radikalna Stranka, SRS). He served as president of the local DS board after the vote; in 2006, he called for new elections against the backdrop of a dysfunctional local administration.[7]

Jovanović later left the DS and joined the Progressive Party. He appeared in the fifteenth position on the party's list for the Aranđelovac municipal assembly in the 2014 local elections and was elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-seven of forty-one mandates.[8][9] He was appointed to the municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) following the election, with responsibility for development of economy and entrepreneurship.[10] Jovanović appeared in the sixteenth position on the party's list in the 2018 local elections, was re-elected when the list won a majority victory, and was re-appointed to council in the same portfolio as before.[11][12][13]

He is not a candidate in the 2022 local elections.

Electoral record

Local (Aranđelovac)
2004 Municipality of Aranđelovac local election
Mayor of Aranđelovac - Second Round Results[14]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes  %
Radosav Švabić Serbian Radical Party 6,272 54.21
Dimitrije Jovanović Mita Democratic Party–Serbian Renewal Movement 5,297 45.79
Total valid votes 11,569 100

References
  1. Službeni glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 11 Number 93 (21 February 2018), p. 2.
  2. "Ko su bili senatori u bivšoj Kraljevini Jugoslaviji", Radio Television of Serbia, 13 July 2017, accessed 31 March 2022.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Демократска опозиција Србије – др Војислав Коштуница (Демократска странка, Демократска странка Србије, Социјалдемократија, Грађански савез Србије, Демохришћанска странка Србије, Нова Србија, Покрет за демократску Србију, Лига соFцијалдемократа Војводине, Реформска демократска странка Војводине, Коалиција Војводина, Савез војвођанских Мађара, Демократска алтернатива, Демократски центар, Нова демократија, Социјалдемократска унија, Санxачка демократска партија, Лига за Шумадију, Српски покрет отпора – Демократски покрет)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  4. 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.
  5. ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ЈОВАНОВИЋ , ДИМИТРИЈЕ, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2003-10-12. Retrieved 2022-04-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 31 March 2022.
  6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА - БОРИС ТАДИЋ) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  7. "Zrelo je za nove lokalne izbore", Glas javnosti, 27 April 2006, accessed 31 March 2022.
  8. Službeni glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 7 Number 57 (5 March 2014), p. 1.
  9. Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 7 Number 58 (28 March 2014), p. 1.
  10. Општинско веће, Archived 2014-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Aranđelovac, accessed 31 March 2022.
  11. Službeni glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 11 Number 93 (21 February 2018), p. 2.
  12. Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Lučani), Volume 35 Number 23 (17 December 2018), p. 5.
  13. Službeni glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 11 Number 96 (25 April 2018), p. 5. By virtue of serving on council he was required to resign from the assembly, which he did on 16 May 2018. See Službeni glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 11 Number 97 (18 May 2018), p. 97.
  14. ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2022-10-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021; Jovanović's identity as the candidate defeated in the second round is confirmed in Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 15 Number 1956 (September 2004), p. 15.
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