Zoran Radojičić (Dveri politician)

Zoran Radojičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Радојичић; born 1975) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016. From 2016 to April 2019, he sat as a member of the right-wing Dveri party; he is now an independent.

For the mayor of Belgrade, see Zoran Radojičić.

Early life and career

Radojičić was born in the Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He still resides in the municipality and is a mechanical technician.[1][2]

Political career

Radojičić is a member of Dveri's presidency, is the co-ordinator of the party's council of defence and security, and has represented the party abroad.[1] Radojičić was an international observer for the controversial 2014 referendum on the status of Crimea, which he described as well-organized and free of coercion.[3] He took part in a Dveri delegation to the disputed Republic of Crimea the following year; Ukraine, which still considers Crimea to be under its jurisdiction, responded by initiating criminal proceedings against Radojičić and the other delegates.[4][5]

Radojičić received the eighth position on Dveri's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[6] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. He received the ninth position on a combined Dveri–Democratic Party of Serbia list in the 2016 election and was elected when the list won thirteen mandates.[7] He currently serves as an opposition member.

He is a member of the assembly's defence and internal affairs committee; a deputy member of the committee on Kosovo and Metohija and the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of a working group "for the collection of facts and evidence for the investigation of crimes committed against Serbs and other national communities" in Kosovo and Metohija; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (where Serbia has observer status); and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus and Russia.[2]

Radojičić was expelled from Dveri in early April 2019. Dveri charged that he had violated its policies by operating within a faction to take over the party.[8]

References
  1. ZORAN RADOJIČIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 8 June 2018.
  2. ZORAN RADOJICIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 June 2018.
  3. "Referendum in Crimea corresponds to law of international law - Serbian observers," ITAR-TASS World Service, 16 March 2014.
  4. "Serbian lawmakers visit Crimea," Russian Press Digest - Russica Izvestia, 27 October 2015.
  5. "Ukraine initiates criminal proceedings against Serbian politicians for visiting Crimea," ITAR-TASS World Service, 19 November 2015.
  6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДВЕРИ ЗА ЖИВОТ СРБИЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 October 2017.
  7. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  8. Poslanička grupa Dveri u Skupštini Srbije više ne postoji, N!1, 23 April 2019, accessed 23 April 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.