Miletić Mihajlović

Miletić Mihajlović Tića (Serbian Cyrillic: Милетић Михајловић Тића; born 1 October 1951) is a politician in Serbia of Timok Vlach ethnicity. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2007 as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia. He is since 2010 a member of the National Council of the Vlach National Minority representing the Timok Vlachs.

Early life and career

Mihajlović was born in Petrovac na Mlavi, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from teacher's college and from the University of Belgrade, worked as a professor, and was director of the Petrovac Gymnasium from 1991 to 2001. He is currently president of the supervisory board of the Svetozar Marković Fund.[1]

Political career

Socialist Party leadership and municipal politics

Mihajlović was vice-president of the Socialist Party's municipal committee in Petrovac na Mlavi from 1990 to 1992. He later became president of the committee from 2002 to 2004, returned to the presidency in 2006, and continues to serve in this role as of 2017. He has also served as president of the Socialist Party's district committee for Braničevo District; in this capacity, he oversaw some aspects of Slobodan Milošević's funeral ceremonies in the former Serbian president's hometown of Požarevac in 2006.[2]

He was a member of the main board of the Socialist Party at the national level from 2002 and 2004 and subsequently returned to the position in 2006. He was elected to the party's presidency in 2012.

Mihajlović has been politically active at the municipal level and was selected as president of the municipal assembly of Petrovac na Mlavi in 2004.[3]

National Assembly of Serbia

Mihajlović received the 147th position on the Socialist Party's electoral list (which was largely arranged in alphabetical order) in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[4] The party won sixteen seats, and Mihajlović was selected as part of its assembly delegation.[5] (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 mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Mihajlović's low position did not prevent him from receiving a mandate.)[6] He received the 153rd position on the list (which was again mostly alphabetical) in the 2008 election and was again chosen to serve in the assembly when the Socialist Party and its allies won twenty seats.[7][8]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mihajlović was re-elected in the 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections, in each case after receiving relatively high list positions.[9] He is currently a member of the assembly committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of three other committees; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (where Serbia has associate membership); the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Romania; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, France, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Spain, and Switzerland.[10]

The Socialist Party of Serbia has been part of the government of Serbia since 2008. Apart from his first term in the assembly, when he was an opposition member, Mihajlović served with the government's parliamentary majority.

National Council of the Vlach National Minority

Mihajlović is a Timok Vlach. He was elected to the National Council of the Vlach National Minority in 2010 as the leader of the Vlasi za Srbiju - Srbija za Vlahe list; in this campaign, he opposed what he described as efforts by the government of Romania to influence Vlach affairs in Serbia.[11] He subsequently served as deputy chair of the council.[12][13] He was re-elected in 2014, after receiving the second position on the Vlasi za Srbiju - Srbija za Vlahe list.[14]

References
  1. MILETIĆ MIHAJLOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 December 2017.
  2. "Flags at half mast as Milosevic's home town prepares funeral," Agence France Presse, 18 March 2006.
  3. MILETIĆ MIHAJLOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 December 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, Социјалистичка партија Србије Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. 14 February 2007 Legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 26 February 2017.
  6. 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.
  7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  8. 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 December 2017.
  9. Mihajlović received the thirtieth position in the 2012 election (when the Socialist-led list won forty-four seats), the thirty-seventh position in 2014 (when the list again won forty-four seats), and the twenty-ninth position in 2016 (when the list won exactly twenty-nine seats). See See 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)") Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017; 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)") Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017; Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
  10. MILETIC MIHAJLOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 11 December 2017.
  11. Lj. TRIFUNOVIĆ, "Vlahe bi u Rumune", Novosti, 8 May 2010, accessed 11 December 2017.
  12. "Serbia's Romanians demand greater rights - paper," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 15 December 2012 (Source: Vecernje novosti website, Belgrade, in Serbian 14 Dec 12).
  13. "Mihajlović: U Srbiji ne postoji vlaško pitanje", Politika (Source: Tanjug), 9 March 2012, accessed 11 December 2017.
  14. Избори за чланове националног савета влашке националне мањине, одржани 26. октобра 2014. године (непосредни избори), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 December 2017.
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