Milenko Filipović

Milenko Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миленко Филиповић; born 12 March 1953) is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Sremski Karlovci from 2004 to 2016 and was also a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2008 to 2011. At different times in his career, Filipović was a member of G17 Plus and the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).

Early life and career

Filipović was born in Sremski Karlovci, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate of the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Law and has served as a judge on the municipal court in Novi Sad. He began practicing law in 1991.[1]

Politician

Local politics

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors at the 2004 local elections. Filipović was elected as mayor of Sremski Karlovci in the second round of voting, after receiving endorsements from G17 plus, the DS, the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Sribje, DSS), and the Serbian Renewal Movement.[2] He became a member of G17 Plus either before or shortly after the election.

Filipović appeared in the 235th position out of 250 on G17 Plus's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] The list won nineteen mandates, and he was not chosen as part of his party's assembly delegation.[4] (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates in Serbia were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Filipović could have received a mandate notwithstanding his position on the list, which was in any event mostly alphabetical.)[5]

The direct election of mayors was abandoned after the 2004 election; since that time, mayors in Serbia have been chosen by the elected members of city and municipal assemblies. In the 2008 local elections, Filipović led the For a European Serbia alliance, which included the DS and G17 Plus, to a majority victory in Sremski Karlovci with fifteen out of twenty-five mandates. He was chosen for a second term as mayor afterwards.[6][7] Following the election, he left G17 Plus and joined the DS.

Filopović led the DS's electoral list to a plurality victory with eight seats in the 2012 local elections and was subsequently confirmed for a third term in office.[8][9][10] In October 2013, he brought the rival Serbian Progressive Party into the municipal governing alliance.[11]

He led his own independent list in the 2016 Serbian local elections.[12] The list won five seats, finishing second against the Progressives. After the election, a candidate of the Progressive Party was chosen as the municipality's new mayor.[13][14] Filipović was not a candidate for re-election to the municipal assembly in 2020.

Provincial politics

While serving as mayor, Filipović was also elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2008 provincial election in the Sremski Karlovci division as a candidate of the For a European Vojvodina alliance. For a European Vojvodina won an outright majority in the election, and Filipović served as a supporter of the administration. He resigned from the assembly on 7 December 2011, after restrictions were introduced on holding dual mandates.[15][16]

Electoral record

Provincial (Vojvodina)
2008 Vojvodina assembly election
Sremski Karlovci (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds[17]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes  % Votes  %
Milenko Filipović "For a European Vojvodina, Democratic Party–G17 Plus, Boris Tadić" 2,305 48.50 1,928 72.51
Novo Simović Serbian Radical Party 925 19.46 731 27.49
Stanko Dimić Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)–Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) 426 8.96
Miladin Kalinić Citizens' Group: Karlovci Initiative 419 8.82
Živko Miljević Coalition: Together for Vojvodina-Nenad Čanak 358 7.53
Đorđe Kolarović Democratic Party of Serbia 320 6.73
Total valid votes 4,753 100 2,659 100
Invalid ballots 105 35
Total votes casts 4,858 59.35 2,694 32.91

Municipal (Sremski Karlovci)
2004 Sremski Karlovci municipal election
Mayor of Sremski Karlovci – Second Round Results[18]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes  %
Milenko Filipović Coalition: G17 Plus–DS–DSS–SPO 1,278 53.29
Branislav Pop Jovanov Citizens' Group: Non-Partisan Citizens of Sremski Karlovci 1,120 46.71
Total valid votes 2,398 100

References
  1. Председник Општине, Archived 2010-03-11 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Sremski Karlovci, 11 March 2010, accessed 15 July 2021.
  2. Локална самоуправа, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513033924/http://www.sremski-karlovci.org.yu/content/view/17/32/lang,serbian/, Municipality of Sremski Karlovci, 13 May 2008, accessed 15 July 2021.
  3. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Г17 плус - Млађан Динкић), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 15 July 2021.
  4. 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 15 July 2021.
  5. 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.
  6. Lokalni Izbori 2008; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 12, 46.
  7. ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима 2008., Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; 3 October 2010, accessed 14 July 2021.
  8. Službeni List (Opštine Sremski Karlovci), 21 April 2012, p. 1.
  9. Službeni List (Opštine Sremski Karlovci), 7 May 2012, pp. 2-3.
  10. Službeni List (Opštine Sremski Karlovci), 22 May 2012, p. 7.
  11. "Sremski Karlovci, DS i SNS zajedno na vlasti", Radio-Television of Serbia, 9 October 2013, accessed 15 July 2021.
  12. Službeni List (Opštine Sremski Karlovci), 13 April 2016, p. 2.
  13. Službeni List (Opštine Sremski Karlovci), 8 May 2016, pp. 1-2.
  14. "OTVOREN NOVI VRTIĆ PU „RADOSNO DETINјSTVO“ U SREMSKIM KARLOVCIMA", City of Novi Sad, 12 September 2016, accessed 6 July 2021.
  15. Сазив 2008-2012, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 14 July 2021.
  16. "Skupština Vojvodine o budžetu i ostavkama", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 24 October 2011, accessed 14 July 2021.
  17. Source: Избори мај 2008. године - резултати по већинском изборном систему (51 СРЕМСКИ КАРЛОВЦИ), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
  18. The fact that Filipović won the election in the second round is confirmed by ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021; Pop Jovanov's identity as the candidate he defeated in the second round is confirmed in Lokalni Izbori u Srbiji 2004, Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy, 27 September 2007, accessed 14 July 2021.
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