Miloje Savić

Miloje Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милоје Савић; born 18 July 1958) is a Serbian politician. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 and was the mayor of Bajina Bašta from 2004 to 2011. Savić is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS).

Private career

Savić holds a Bachelor of Laws degree.[1]

Politician

Savić received the 205th position (out of 250) on the SPS's electoral list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won thirty-seven seats, and he was not selected for a mandate.[3] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Savić could have been given a seat despite his position on the list, which was in any event mostly alphabetical, though he was not.)[4]

Parliamentarian

Savić was given the 206th position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2003 parliamentary election and was this time included in his party's assembly delegation after the list won twenty-two seats.[5][6] The Socialists provided outside support to Serbia's coalition government for the term that followed. Savić served as chair of the committee for environmental protection.[7]

He received the 194th position on the SPS's list for the 2007 parliamentary election. The party fell to sixteen seats, and he was not chosen for a new mandate.[8][9]

Mayor of Bajina Bašta

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors for the 2004 Serbian local elections. Savić ran as the Socialist Party's candidate in Bajina Bašta and was elected in the second round of voting. The Socialists did not win the concurrent election for the municipal assembly, and for at least part of Savić's first term the party was excluded from the local coalition administration, serving in opposition.[10]

In 2005, Savić was appointed by the Serbian government to lead a committee commemorating one hundred years of tourism on Mount Tara.[11] Two years later, he oversaw the approval of a plan to permit legal construction on parts of the Tara National Park; the purpose of this initiative was to prevent illegal construction and protect the most environmentally sensitive areas.[12]

The direct election of mayors proved to be a short-lived experiment and was ended with the 2008 local elections. Since this time, Serbian mayors have been chosen by the elected delegates of the relevant city or municipal assemblies.

Savić led the Socialists to a fourth-place finish in Bajina Bašta in 2008, with the party winning eight seats out of forty-five. The SPS formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) after the election; as part of the coalition arrangement, Savić continued to serve as mayor. He was removed from office in April 2011, when a new coalition led by the Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) came to power.[13]

Political activities since 2011

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Savić was elected to the Bajina Bašta municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections and served for the term that followed.[14]

He was given the 118th position on the SPS's list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was not returned to the national assembly when the list won twenty-nine seats.[15] He also led the SPS's list for Bajina Bašta in the concurrent 2016 local elections and was re-elected locally when the list won nine seats.[16][17] The Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) fell two seats short of a majority in the local election and afterward formed a coalition government that included the Socialist Party. Savić was appointed to the municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the local government) on 26 May 2016.[18][19] His term was brief; he resigned on 4 November 2016.[20]

Savić received the second position on the SPS's list for Bajina Bašta in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list again won nine seats.[21][22] He resigned his mandate on 18 August 2020.[23]

Electoral record

Local (Bajina Bašta)
2004 Bajina Bašta local election: Mayor of Bajina Bašta
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Miloje SavićSocialist Party of Serbia4,78951.38
not listednot listed4,53148.62
Zlatan JovanovićSerbian Radical Party
others
Total9,320100.00
Source: [24]

References
  1. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (3 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
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  3. PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 4 January 2023.
  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. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9. СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ - СЛОБОДАН МИЛОШЕВИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 August 2022.
  6. "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 4 January 2023.
  7. ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: САВИЋ, МИЛОЈЕ, Archived 2006-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 10 December 2006, accessed 4 January 2023.
  8. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (11 Социјалистичка партија Србије), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
  9. 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 28 December 2022.
  10. Direktorijum lokalnih samouprava u Srbiji, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), September 2005, p. 34.
  11. "Na Tari etno naselje", Glas javnosti, 11 April 2005, accessed 5 January 2023.
  12. "Dozvoljena gradnja na Tari", Glas javnosti, 11 May 2007, accessed 5 January 2023.
  13. Nenad Kovačević, "Odbornici G17 plus u koaliciji sa SRS i DSS", Danas, 7 April 2011.
  14. Скупштина Општине Бајина Башта, Archived 2016-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Bajina Bašta, 13 May 2016, accessed 4 January 2023.
  15. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (3 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
  16. РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОР ОДБОРНИКА У СКУПШТИНУ ОПШТИНЕ БАЈИНА БАШТА, 24. АПРИЛА 2016. ГОДИНЕ; Municipality of Bajina Bašta, p. 4.
  17. Izbori 2016, Municipality of Bajina Bašta, accessed 3 May 2022.
  18. "Nova 'stara' vlast u Bajinoj Bašti!", 26 May 2016, accessed 4 January 2023.
  19. By virtue of holding this position, Savić was required to resign his assembly seat, which he had previously done on 17 May 2016. See Službeni List (Opštine Bajina Bašta), Volume 46 Number 6 (18 May 2016), p. 13.
  20. Službeni List (Opštine Bajina Bašta), Volume 46 Number 11 (30 November 2016), p. 61.
  21. Službeni List (Opštine Bajina Bašta), Volume 49 Number 10, p. 5.
  22. Službeni List (Opštine Bajina Bašta), Volume 49 Number 12 (23 June 2020), p. 5.
  23. Službeni List (Opštine Bajina Bašta), Volume 49 Number 13 (19 August 2020), p. 5.
  24. 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; Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Number 1840 (Bajina Bašta, September 2004), p. 3.
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