Borisav Kovačević

Borisav Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Борисав Ковачевић; born April 9, 1943) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia.

Early life and career

Kovačević is a graduate philologist. Now retired, he is based in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun.[1]

Political career

The United Pensioners contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, and Kovačević received the thirteenth position on their combined electoral list.[2] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

The party later joined an electoral alliance led by the Socialist Party of Serbia for the 2008 parliamentary election, and Kovačević was given the eleventh position on the alliance's list.[3] The list won twenty seats, but Kovačević was not subsequently chosen to be part of the United Pensioners' assembly delegation. (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. Kovačević did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his position on the list.)[4]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The United Pensioners' alliance with the Socialist Party continued into the 2012 election; Kovačević received the forty-ninth position on the Socialist-led electoral list and narrowly missed direct election when the list won forty-four mandates. He was, however, able to claim a mandate on 30 July 2012, as a replacement for party leader Jovan Krkobabić, who had resigned to take a cabinet position.[5] PUPS became part of Serbia's coalition government following the election, and Kovačević served as part of its parliamentary majority.

Kovačević was promoted to the twenty-ninth position on the Socialist-led list in the 2014 election and was re-elected when the list again won forty-four mandates.[6] For the next two years, the United Pensioners provided external support to Aleksandar Vučić's administration.

For the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, the United Pensioners joined the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Kovačević received the 130th position on their list and narrowly won direct re-election when the list won a majority with 131 out of 250 mandates.[7] The United Pensioners returned to direct participation in government after the election. Kovačević is currently the deputy leader of the United Pensioners parliamentary group; a member of the parliamentary defence and internal affairs committee and the environmental protection committee; a deputy member of the culture and information committee and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with China, Macedonia, Russia, Spain, and Sweden.[8]

References

  1. ↑ BORISAV KOVAČEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) - Др Небојша Човић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  3. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  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. ↑ Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 30. јула 2012. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 9 October 2017. Serbia's 2011 electoral law stipulates that, in the event of the resignation of a member elected on a coalition list, the vacant mandate will fall to the next candidate on the list from the same party. See Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Article 92) made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017. Radina Todović (No. 46 on the list) was initially offered the vacant mandate, but declined.
  6. ↑ 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)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  8. ↑ BORISAV KOVACEVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 9 October 2017.
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