Radoslav Zdravković (Serbian Cyrillic: Радослав Здравковић; born 1 June 1955) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 and was the deputy mayor of Rača on two occasions. During his time as an elected official, Zdravković was a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS).

Private career edit

Zdravković is a civil engineer.[1]

Politician edit

The DSS participated in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS) coalition in the 2000 Serbian local elections. In Rača, the DOS lost to the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) but was nonetheless invited to participate in a local coalition government afterwards. Zdravković served as deputy mayor.[2]

Zdravković appeared in the 125th position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] The list won fifty-three mandates, and he was not initially included in his party's delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to successful parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.[4] Zdravković's list position had no formal bearing on whether he received a mandate.)

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections; Zdravković was the DSS's candidate in Rača and finished in third place. He also led the DSS list in the concurrent municipal assembly election and was elected when the list won four mandates.[5][6][7]

Zdravković was given a mandate in the national assembly on 18 November 2004 as the replacement for another DSS delegate.[8] The DSS was the dominant power in Serbia's coalition government at the time, and he served as a supporter of the administration. During his parliamentary term, he was a member of the committee on relations with Serbs outside Serbia.[9] He received the 113th position on a combined DSS–New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS) list in the 2007 parliamentary election; the list won forty-seven seats, and he was not given a mandate for a second term.[10][11]

The DSS and NS continued their alliance into the 2008 parliamentary election and won thirty mandates. Zdravković appeared in the 101st position and was again not included in the DSS delegation.[12] He also appeared in the second position on the DSS–NS list in the concurrent 2008 local elections and took another local mandate when the list won nine seats, finishing in a tie for first place with the rival Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).[13][14][15] The DSS participated in the local government afterward, and Zdravković was again chosen as the municipality's deputy mayor.[16] He was dismissed from the position on 9 June 2010 and does not seem to have returned to political life since this time.[17]

Electoral record edit

Local (Rača) edit

2004 Municipality of Rača local election
Mayor of Rača - First and Second Round Results
[18]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes % Votes %
Dragan Stevanović Serbian Renewal MovementDemocratic Party (Affiliation: Democratic Party) 1,948 39.43 2,634 53.35
Dragan Mijatović Draganče Socialist Party of Serbia–OO Rača 1,096 22.18 2,303 46.65
Radoslav Zdravković Democratic Party of SerbiaVojislav Koštunica 804 16.27
Mileta Radovanović Strength of Serbia MovementBogoljub Karić 460 9.31
Verica Karić Serbian Radical PartyTomislav Nikolić 370 7.49
Nebojša Pavlović G17 PlusMiroljub Labus 263 5.32
Total valid votes 4,941 100 4,937 100

References edit

  1. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Trnovit put do boljeg", Glas javnosti, 28 July 2001, accessed 4 April 2022.
  3. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  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. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2004 Volume 4 (8 September 2004), p. 7.
  6. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2004 Number 6 (21 September 2004), p. 2.
  7. ^ In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. See Law on Local Elections, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  8. ^ PETA SEDNICA, DRUGOG REDOVNOG ZASEDANJA, 18.11.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 4 April 2022.
  9. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ЗДРАВКОВИЋ, РАДОСЛАВ, Archived 2007-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 4 April 2022.
  10. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Списак посланика за Скупштину Србије", Politika, 13 February 2007, accessed 12 April 2022.
  12. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Демократска Странка Србије - Нова Србија - Војислав Коштуница), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  13. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2008 Number 2 (30 April 2008), p. 2.
  14. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2008 Number 3 (12 May 2008), pp. 1-2.
  15. ^ For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (2007), Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021. Simonović did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of leading the list.
  16. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2008 Number 5 (30 May 2008), p. 2. By virtue of holding this position, he was required to resign from the municipal assembly. See Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2008 Number 6 (25 June 2008), p. 1.
  17. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2010 Number 6 (10 June 2010), p. 58.
  18. ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2004 Number 4 (8 September 2004), p. 12, 28; Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2004 Number Number 6 (21 September 2004), p. 3; Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Rača), 2004 Number 7 (4 October 2004), p. 1.