Vladimir Đukić

Vladimir Đukić (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Ђукић; born 2 March 1957) is a Serbian academic, administrator, medical doctor, and politician. He is a longtime member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2022.

Vladimir Đukić
Владимир Ђукић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Personal details
Born (1957-03-02) 2 March 1957
Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partySPS

Early life and medical career

Đukić was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1981, completed postgraduate studies in 1986, and received his doctorate in 1996. He worked for many years at the University Clinical Center of Serbia and was the director of its emergency ward on two occasions, from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.[1]

Đukić was director of the emergency ward during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and provided frequent media updates about the hospital's challenges during the conflict. When the first NATO bombs struck Belgrade, he noted the building's proximity to potential military targets. "The Serb police headquarters are 100 metres from our urology clinic and the federal police are 200 metres from the maternity bloc," he said. "The interior ministry is 400 metres from here and the army headquarters less than a kilometre. It could be a massacre."[2]

In May 2000, Đukić sued the opposition-run RTV Studio B for reporting that Otpor! activist Radojko Luković had been discharged from the emergency ward "even though he had not undergone the necessary surgery." Đukić described this as an "insolent lie" that harmed "the reputation of physicians and the emergency ward itself."[3] The station was ordered to pay a fine of 150,000 dinars.[4]

Đukić wad a state secretary in Serbia's ministry of health from August 2012 to November 2018, when he became director of the University Hospital Center Dr Dragiša Mišović in Dedinje. The hospital played a leading role in treating COVID-19 patients during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia, a time that Đukić described as the most difficult of his medical career.[5]

He is a full professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine and has published widely in his field. In 2019, he became a member of the American College of Surgeons.[6]

In May 2023, Đukić spoke about the medical community's response to the Belgrade school shooting and the Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings.[7]

Politician

SPS executive member (2000)

Đukić was elected to the executive committee of the Socialist Party in February 2000, when the party dominated Serbian politics.[8] He ran for the City Assembly of Belgrade in Savski Venac's second constituency seat later in the year in the 2000 Serbian local elections.[9] Savski Venac was an opposition stronghold, and he was defeated by Zoran Šami of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) amid a landslide DOS victory.

SPS leader Slobodan Milošević was defeated in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed moment in Serbian politics. After Milošević's fall, Đukić withdrew from direct political activity for a number of years.

SPS candidate (2016–20)

Đukić appeared in the seventy-fourth position on the SPS's electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and the eighty-fourth position in the 2020 parliamentary election.[10][11] The lists won twenty-nine and thirty-two seats, respectively, and he was not elected on either occasion.

He was given the eleventh position on the SPS list in the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election. The list won eight mandates, and he was not elected.[12] He had the opportunity to enter the assembly as the replacement for another party member on 7 June 2018, but he declined.[13][14][15]

Parliamentarian (2022–present)

Đukić was promoted to the sixth position on the SPS's list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won thirty-one seats.[16] The SPS is part of Serbia's coalition government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and he supports the administration in the assembly. He is a member of the health and family committee; a deputy member of the committee for education, science, technological development, and the information society; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Morocco; and a member of the friendship groups with China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Iceland, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[17] It was rumoured that he would be appointed as Serbia's health minister in 2022, but this did not happen.

Đukić also appeared in the largely ceremonial 110th position (out of 110) on the SPS's list in the 2022 Belgrade City Assembly election.[18] Election from this position was a mathematical impossibility, and he was not elected when the list again won eight seats.

Electoral record

Local (City of Belgrade)
2000 Belgrade city election: Savski Venac Division 2
CandidateParty
Vladimir ĐukićSocialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left–Slobodan Milošević (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia)
Branimir IvanovićNew Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Radivoje KuzmanovićSerbian People's Radical Party
Ivana PejovićSerbian Renewal Movement
Vuk FatićSerbian Radical Party
Zoran Šami (***WINNER***)Democratic Opposition of Serbia–Dr. Vojislav Koštunica (affiliation: Democratic Party of Serbia)
Total
Source: [19]

References
  1. Проф. др Владимир Ђукић: У свету медицине, Socialist Party of Serbia, accessed 9 September 2023; Vladimir Đukić, istinomer.rs, accessed 9 September 2023.
  2. "NATO destroys government buildings in first raid on Belgrade," Agence France Presse, 3 April 2019.
  3. "Hospital files charges against Studio B over 'false' reporting," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political, 4 May 2000 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1755 gmt 4 May 00).
  4. "Fines against Studio B TV, editor reach over 1m dinars," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political, 5 May 2000 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1713 gmt 5 May 00).
  5. "Проф. др Ђукић: 'Био сам на ратишту, водио Ургентни центар током бомбардовања, али КОРОНА ЈЕ ГОРА ОД СВЕГА ТОГА'", Socialist Party of Serbia, 30 May 2020, accessed 9 September 2023.
  6. Проф. др Владимир Ђукић: У свету медицине, Socialist Party of Serbia, accessed 9 September 2023; Vladimir Đukić, istinomer.rs, accessed 9 September 2023.
  7. "POVREDE SU STRAVIČNE - UNIŠTAVAJU KOSTI, TKIVA I KRVNE SUDOVE: Dr Đukić o ranjenima - 'Ratni sam hirurg, ali ovo...'", Mondo, 15 May 2023, accessed 9 September 2023.
  8. "Serbian ruling party elects members of executive committee," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political, 17 February 2000 (Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 2042 gmt 17 Feb 00.).
  9. "Krunić protiv Ivkovića, Komrakov na Čovića...", Glas javnosti, 20 September 2000, accessed 9 September 2023.
  10. 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 27 October 2021.
  11. "Ko je sve na listi SPS-JS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 7 March 2020, accessed 30 April 2021.
  12. Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 62 Number 17 (21 February 2018), p. 5.
  13. Изборне листе (3. Изборна листа 3. ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), ДРАГАН МАРКОВИЋ ПАЛМА – Јединствена Србија (ЈС)), City of Belgrade (Election 2018), accessed 27 July 2018.
  14. Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 62 Number 41 (7 June 2018).
  15. "Spisak odbornika Skupštine Beograda kojima su danas potvrđeni mandati", Danas, 11 June 2022, accessed 9 September 2023.
  16. "Ko su kandidati liste SPS-JS-ZS „Ivica Dačić – Premijer Srbije“ za poslanike", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 28 April 2022.
  17. VLADIMIR Prof. Dr DJUKIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 September 2023.
  18. Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 66 Number 35 (18 March 2022), p. 5.
  19. Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 13 (15 September 2000), p. 434; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 15 (20 October 2000), p. 469-470.
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