Lazar Čavić

Lazar Čavić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лазар Чавић; born 14 April 1973) is a Serbian politician. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia and the Assembly of Vojvodina as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS).

Early life and private career

Čavić was born in the village of Subotište in the municipality of Pećinci, in what was then the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in the Socialist Republic of Serbia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in the municipality and ultimately worked in agriculture at his family's farm in the village of Donji Tovarnik.[1]

Politician

Čavić became president of the Radical Party's committee in Donji Tovarnik in 1994.[2] He ran for Pećinci's seventh division in the 2000 Serbian local elections and, like all Radical Party candidates in the municipality for this cycle, was defeated.[3][4]

Parliamentarian

Čavić appeared in the 101st position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] The party won eighty-two seats; he was not initially included in the SRS assembly delegation but received a mandate on 17 February 2004 as the replacement for another member.[6] (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 the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Čavić's position on the list had no bearing on whether or when he received a mandate.)[7]

Although Radicals won more seats than any other party in the 2003 election, they fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. Čavić was a member of the committee for Kosovo and Metohija.[8] He was not a candidate for re-election in 2007.

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections. Čavić ran for mayor of Pećinci and was defeated in the second round by Democratic Party (DS) candidate Nikola Pavković. He also appeared in the lead position on the SRS's list for the municipal assembly and was elected when the list won eight mandates.[9][10] He served in opposition at this level as well.[11]

Member of the provincial assembly

Čavić appeared in the tenth position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election and was given a mandate when the list won twenty seats.[12][13][14] The Democratic Party and its allies won a majority government, and the Radicals again served in opposition.

The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Čavić remained with the Radicals.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Čavić appeared in the seventh position on the SRS list in the 2012 provincial election and was not immediately re-elected when the list won five seats.[15] He received a seat on 15 May 2014 as the replacement for another delegate and served on the committee for petitions and proposals.[16][17] The Radicals remained in opposition during this time.

He appeared in the twenty-fifth position on the SRS list in the 2016 provincial election and was not re-elected when the list won ten mandates.[18]

Čavić also appeared on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2012 and 2014 Serbian parliamentary elections and led the party's list in Pećinci in the 2012, 2014, and 2017 Serbian local elections.[19][20][21][22][23] In each case, the party fell below the electoral threshold for representation in the relevant assembly.[24][25][26]

Electoral record

Local (Pećinci)
2004 Municipality of Pećinci local election: Mayor of Pećinci
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Nikola Pavković (incumbent)Democratic Party2,86555.58
Lazar ČavićSerbian Radical Party2,29044.42
other candidates
Total5,155100.00
Source: [27]

References
  1. Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 15 Number 1868 (Pećinci, September 2004), p. 1.
  2. Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 15 Number 1868 (Pećinci, September 2004), p. 1.
  3. Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 1201 (Belgrade, September 2000), p. 11.
  4. Izbori, 2000. Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 49.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2. СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
  6. TREĆE VANREDNO ZASEDANJE, 17.02.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 August 2023.
  7. 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.
  8. ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ЧАВИЋ, ЛАЗАР, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 December 2006. Retrieved 25 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 August 2023.
  9. Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 15 Number 1868 (Pećinci, September 2004), p. 4.
  10. In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. See Law on Local Elections Archived 2021-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  11. Direktorijum lokalnih samouprava u Srbiji, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), September 2005, pp. 254-255.
  12. Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине 11. мај 2008. године – Изборна листа 4 – СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ”, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 1 July 2022.
  13. Convocation 2008 - 2012, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 21 August 2023.
  14. "RASPODELJENO POLA POKRAJINSKIH MANDATA", Vesti (Source: Blic), 1 June 2008, accessed 25 August 2023.
  15. Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 4 – СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА – ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ – кандидати за посланике), Election 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 19 August 2023.
  16. Saziv 2012-2016, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 25 August 2023.
  17. Službeni List (Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine), Volume 70 Number 19 (21 May 2014), p. 959.
  18. Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 6 - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ – СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА), Election 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 1 July 2022.
  19. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 28 September 2021.
  20. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 4 June 2022.
  21. СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА – АЛЕКСАНДАР МАРТИНОВИЋ, Election 2012, Municipality of Pećinci, accessed 25 August 2023.
  22. Rešenje O Utvrđivanju Zbirne Izborne Liste, Election 2014, p. 6.
  23. Rešenje O Utvrđivanju Zbirne Liste, Election 2017, Municipality of Pećinci, accessed 17 August 2023.
  24. ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2012., Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia, p. 51.
  25. Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija, 2016 Local Election, Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia, p. 48.
  26. Izveśtaj O Ukupnim Rezultatima Izbora Za Odbornike Skupštine Opštine Pećinci (Izbori 2017), pp. 1-2.
  27. 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 2022-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021. The fact that Čavić was Pavković's second round opponent is confirmed in Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 15 Number 1956 (September 2004), pp. 16-17.
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