Dragan Aleksić (politician)
Dragan Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Алексић, born 17 November 1963) is a politician from Serbia. A member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2016, he is currently the head of the municipality (i.e., mayor) of Osečina. Aleksić is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career
[edit]Aleksić has a degree from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade and was co-owner and director of the company Dal d.o.o. Osečina from 1998 to 2014.[1]
Political career
[edit]Aleksić was a candidate of the Serbian Radical Party on several occasions in the 1990s and 2000s. In the 1997 parliamentary election, he received the fifth position on the party's electoral list for the Valjevo division; the party won only one mandate for the area, and he was not elected.[2]
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2000, with the entire country becoming a single electoral division. Aleksić received the 158th position (out of 250) on the Radical Party's list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election,[3] the 224th position on its list in the 2003 election,[4] and the 249th position in the 2007 election.[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.[6] Aleksić could have been selected as part of the Radical Party's delegation on any of these occasions notwithstanding his low numerical positions, although in fact he was not.
Aleksić also led the Radical Party's municipal electoral lists for Osečina in 2004 and 2008.[7][8]
The Radical Party split in 2008, with Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić forming a breakaway group called the Serbian Progressive Party. Aleksić sided with the Progressives and became the party's founding local president in Osečina.[9] He received the 152nd position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list for the 2014 parliamentary election and was declared elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 mandates.[10] For the next two years, he served as a parliamentary supporter of Vučić's administration. During his time in parliament, Aleksić was a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Albania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, and Slovakia.[11]
He was not a candidate in the 2016 parliamentary election but instead led the Progressive Party's list for municipal elections in Osečina and was selected as mayor following the party's victory.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ SO OSEČINA: Predsednik Opštine – Dragan Aleksić, osecina.com, accessed 14 July 2017.
- ^ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (12 Ваљево) Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine and Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године, Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 1 March 2017. From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates on the lists by the sponsoring parties. The latter mandates were often distributed out of numerical order. See Guide to the Early Election Archived 2022-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017. The one Radical Party mandate in Valjevo was awarded to Dragoljub Pantić, the top-listed candidate.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ) Archived 2018-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2017-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], September 2004, Osečina release.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], May 2008, Osečina release.
- ^ SO OSEČINA: Predsednik Opštine – Dragan Aleksić, osecina.com, accessed 14 July 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017. By this time, mandates were distributed to candidates in numerical order.
- ^ DRAGAN ALEKSIC, National Assembly of Serbia (version captured on the Internet Archive, 4 March 2016), accessed 26 January 2017.
- ^ SO OSEČINA: Predsednik Opštine – Dragan Aleksić, osecina.com, accessed 14 July 2017.