Živan Đurišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Живан Ђуришић; born 1947) is a politician in Serbia. He is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party, currently serving his second term in the National Assembly of Serbia.

Private career edit

Đurišić was a municipal court judge in Velika Plana. He is now retired.[1][2]

Political career edit

Đurišić received the 140th position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving coalition electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] The list won seventy-three seats, and he was not elected. He was promoted to the ninety-fifth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list for the 2014 parliamentary election and was elected to his first term when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[4] For the next two years, he served with the government's parliamentary majority.

He was given the 145th position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 parliamentary election. The list won a second consecutive majority with 131 seats.[5] Đurišić was not immediately re-elected, but he was awarded a new mandate on June 7, 2018, as a replacement for Željko Sušec, who had resigned.[6]

References edit

  1. ^ ŽIVAN ĐURIŠIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 8 June 2018.
  2. ^ ZIVAN DJURISIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 June 2018.
  3. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Додела мандата, Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 5. октобра 2016. године. године], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 August 2017.
  6. ^ Mirjana R. Milenković, "Tepićeva: Verujem da je stranka prisilila Sušeca na ostavku", Danas, 8 June 2018, accessed 8 June 2018.