Slavoljub Filipović

Slavoljub Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Славољуб Филиповић; born 1951) is a former politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 1993 to 1997 as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO).

Private career

In the 1993 Serbian election, Filipović identified as a gallerist based in Jagodina.[1]

Politician

Filipović was a founding member of the Serbian Renewal Movement in 1990. The party contested the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Democratic Movement of Serbia (Demokratski pokret Srbije, DEPOS) coalition, and Filipović appeared in the sixth position on the coalition's electoral list in the Smederevo division. The list won five seats, and he was included in his party's delegation when the assembly convened in early 1993.[2][3] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. Filipović's relatively low position did not prevent him from receiving a mandate.)[4] The Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) won the election, and the SPO served in opposition.

Filipović was promoted to the third position on the DEPOS list for Smederevo in the 1993 Serbian parliamentary election; the list again won five mandates, and he was given a mandate for a second term.[5][6][7] The Socialists again won the election, and the SPO continued to serve in opposition. In 1994, Filipović complained about police inaction (or complicity) in the face of fuel and cigarette smuggling by organized crime networks.[8] He was not a candidate in the 1997 Serbian election.

In October 1997, Filipović was expelled from the SPO under extremely acrimonious circumstances. In leaving the party's assembly, he accused his former colleagues of being "communists." His rivals, in turn, taunted him as having been a spy for the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).[9]

He later became reconciled to the SPO at least on a local level after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration and was the party's candidate for mayor of Jagodina in the 2004 Serbian local elections. He was defeated in the first round of voting.

Electoral record

Municipal (Jagodina)
2004 Municipality of Jagodina local election: Mayor of Jagodina
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Dragan Marković PalmaUnited Serbia18,75667.01
Snežana MitrovićDemocratic Party9,23432.99
Slavoljub FilipovićSerbian Renewal Movement
other candidates
Total27,990100.00
Source: [10]

References
  1. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Смедерево), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.
  2. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Смедерево) and Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.
  3. Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), 25 January 1993 (Volume 49 Number 7), p. 194.
  4. Guide to the Early Election, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 Смедерево) and Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.
  6. Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 50 Number 11 (25 January 1994), p. 193.
  7. Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), 11 February 1994 (Volume 50 Number 16), p. 356.
  8. Jovan Dulovic, Uros Komlenovic and Dragoslav Grujic, "Turning a Blind Eye", Vreme, 28 March 1994, accessed 8 September 2022.
  9. "Smene na 'veseloj veceri'", Naša Borba, 13 October 1997, accessed 8 September 2022.
  10. 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; "Dragan Marković pobedio u Jagodini", B92, 4 October 2004, accessed 8 September 2004; Njegoš Manojlović, "odgovornost politi~kih stranaka", Center for Free Elections and Democracy, 2005, accessed 8 September 2022.
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