Nenad Mitrović (politician)

Nenad Mitrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Митровић; born 1973) is a politician in Serbia. He has served a number of terms in the National Assembly of Serbia, initially as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party and later with the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

Mitrović is an economist based in Bujanovac.[1]

Political career

Radical Party

Mitrović received the 119th position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election. The party won eight-two seats, becoming the largest single party in the assembly but falling well short of a majority and ultimately serving in opposition.[2] Mitrović was not initially included in the party's assembly delegation but received a mandate on February 17, 2004, as the replacement for a party colleague who had been appointed to the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro.[3] (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. Mitrović's position on the list had no bearing on his appointment to the assembly.)[4] He served in parliament for the next three years. He was again included on the Radical Party's list for the 2007 parliamentary election but was not included in its assembly delegation in the parliament that followed.[5][6]

Progressive Party

The Radical Party experienced a serious split in 2008, with several members joining the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Mitrović sided with the Progressives.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mitrović received the 148th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In coalition electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a majority with 158 out of 250 mandates.[7] He was promoted to the 133rd position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 election.[8] He narrowly missed direct re-election when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 seats, but was able to take his seat in the assembly on August 10, 2016, as a replacement for the author Ljiljana Habjanović Đurović, who had been elected on the Progressive list but declined her mandate.[9]

Mitrović currently serves as a deputy member of the assembly's defense and security committee, the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, and the committee on Kosovo-Metohija. He is a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus and Kazakhstan.[10]

He is the president of the Progressive Party's local organization in Bujanovac and is a member of the municipal assembly.[11]

References

  1. ↑ NENAD MITROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  3. ↑ TREĆE VANREDNO ZASEDANJE, 17.02.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 April 2018.
  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 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  6. ↑ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 16 April 2018.
  7. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  9. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Додела мандата, Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 10. августа 2016. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 13 August 2017.
  10. ↑ NENAD MITROVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 16 April 2018.
  11. ↑ NENAD MITROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 April 2018.
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