Sreto Perić (Serbian Cyrillic: Срето Перић; born September 23, 1959) is a Serbian politician. He is currently serving his fourth term in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.
Private career edit
Perić has a bachelor of laws degree and is based in Ljubovija.[1]
Political career edit
Perić received the twenty-eighth position on the Radical Party's electoral list for the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The party won eighty-two seats, and Perić was subsequently included in its assembly delegation, taking his seat when the assembly met in early 2004.[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. Perić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list position, but he was awarded a mandate all the same.)[4] Although the Radical Party received more seats than any other party in the 2003 election, they fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition.
Perić was included on the Radical Party's electoral lists for the 2007 and 2008 parliamentary elections and was again selected to serve in the party's assembly delegation on both occasions.[5] The Radical Party remained in opposition throughout this period. The party experienced a significant split in late 2008, with many of its members joining the more centrist Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Perić remained with the Radicals.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Perić received the twenty-third position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election,[6] in which the party failed to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. He was promoted to the nineteenth position in the 2014 election, in which the party again failed to win representation.[7]
The Radicals returned to the assembly with the 2016 election, winning twenty-two mandates. Perić, who received the fourteenth position on the party's list, was accordingly re-elected.[8] The party once again serves in opposition. Perić is currently a member of the assembly committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and communications; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, and Spain.[9]
Perić has been a member of the Radical Party's presidency[10] and has been a Radical member of the municipal assembly in Ljubovija. In 2009, during a heated debate on the legitimacy of an assembly meeting, he threw and broke a microphone that was situated in front of the speaker.[11] He has also been the regional chair of the Radical Party's committee in Podrinje in the Republika Srpska.[12]
References edit
- ^ SRETO PERIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 May 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ PRVA SEDNICA, 27.01.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 May 2018. This source lists Perić as one of the party's MPs at the first meeting of the assembly.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Perić received the seventy-third position in 2007 and the ninety-eighth in 2008. See 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; and Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. For his continued membership in the assembly, see 14 February 2007 legislature and 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ^ See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
- ^ SRETO PERIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 May 2018.
- ^ "Martinović novi potpredsednik SRS-a", Radio Television of Serbia, 23 April 2010, accessed 18 May 2018.
- ^ R. Blanuša, "Radikal slomio mikrofon", Novosti, 29 July 2009, accessed 18 May 2018.
- ^ "Idu, za dres ne pitaju", Novosti, 20 September 2010, accessed 18 May 2018.