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Zoran Kasalović


Zoran Kasalović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Касаловић; born 15 June 1967) is a politician and administrator in Serbia. He was the mayor of Žitište from 2004 to 2008, served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 to 2014, and is currently a secretary of state in the Serbian ministry of education, science, and technological development. Kasalović is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS).

Zoran Kasalović
Зоран Касаловић
Secretary of State in the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development
Mayor of Žitište
In office
2004–2008
Member of the National Assembly of Serbia
In office
2008–2014
Deputy Provincial Secretary of Finance
In office
2016–2017
State Secretary in the Serbian Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
In office
2017–2020
State Secretary in the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development
Assumed office
2020
Personal details
Born (1967-06-15) June 15, 1967 (age 56)
NationalitySerbian
Political partySocialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
EducationUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Economics
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law
OccupationPolitician, Administrator

Early life and career edit

Kasalović was born in 1967. He is a graduate of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics and has completed a specialist post-graduate course from the Faculty of Law. He has worked in private life as a tax advisor in Serbia's public revenue administration.[1]

Politician edit

Local politics edit

Kasalović has served several terms in the Žitište municipal assembly. He first elected in the 1996 Serbian local elections, in which the SPS won a majority government in the community.[2][3]

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections. Kasalović ran as the SPS's candidate and narrowly won the second round of voting. There was initially some controversy as to the result; the second-round results were annulled by a municipal court in Zrenjanin, and Kasalović was again elected by a narrow margin in a repeat vote.[4][5] He served in office for the next four years.

The direct election of mayors was subsequently abandoned. Kasalović led the SPS's electoral list for Žitište in the 2008 local elections and received a new assembly mandate after the list won three out of thirty-one seats.[6][7] After the election, the SPS participated in a local coalition government led by the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).[8][9] Kasalović later appeared in the sixth position on the SPS's list in the 2012 local elections and was again elected when the list won eight mandates.[10][11] The SPS was initially a dominant party in the local government after this election, though it moved into opposition in 2013.[12][13]

Kasalović returned to the lead position on the SPS's list for the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won six mandates.[14][15] The SPS participated in a local government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) after this election, and Kasalović was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the assembly on 20 May 2016.[16] He resigned as assembly president on 17 July 2017 and left the assembly entirely on 22 December 2017, after receiving a position as a secretary of state in the Serbian government.[17][18]

He again led the SPS's list for Žitište in the 2020 local elections, was again re-elected when the list won six mandates, and again resigned his local mandate (on 20 November 2020) after being appointed to a new secretary of state position.[19][20][21]

National Assembly of Serbia edit

Kasalović appeared in the 111st position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[22] The list won sixteen mandates, and Kasalović was not included afterwards in his party's assembly delegation. (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 assigned out of numerical order. Kasalović's specific list position had no formal bearing on his chances of election.)[23]

He received the 114th position on the SPS list in the 2008 parliamentary election and again did not initially receive a mandate when the list won twenty seats.[24] The overall results of this election were initially inconclusive, but the For a European Serbia alliance led by the Democratic Party ultimately formed a coalition government with the SPS. Socialist Party leader Ivica Dačić and two other party members resigned from the assembly to accept cabinet positions, and Kasalović received a mandate as a replacement member on 16 July 2008.[25] He served for the next four years as a supporter of the government.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Kasalović was given the thirty-eighth position on the SPS list for the 2012 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won forty-four seats.[26] The SPS formed a new coalition government with the SNS and other parties, with Dačić in the role of prime minister, and Kasalović again served as a government supporter. He was given the fifty-fifth position in the 2014 parliamentary election and was not re-elected when the SPS list again won forty-four seats.[27]

Deputy Provincial Secretary and State Secretary edit

The SNS and SPS formed a new coalition government in Vojvodina after the 2016 provincial election, and Kasalović served as deputy provincial secretary of finance from 2016 to 2017. He was appointed as a state secretary in the Serbian ministry of public administration and local self-government in 2017, working with SPS minister Branko Ružić.[28] Ružić was reassigned as minister of education, science, and technological development in 2020, and Kasalović joined him as a secretary of state in the new department.[29] It was noted in a 2021 Danas article that he was earning a higher income than Rużić.[30]

Electoral record edit

Municipal (Žitište) edit

2004 Žitište municipal election
Mayor of Žitište - Second Round Results (Repeat Vote)[31]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes %
Zoran Kasalović Socialist Party of Serbia 3,506 50.92
Darko Karan Coalition: Democratic Party–League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina–Serbian Renewal Movement–Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians–New Serbia 3,379 49.08
Total valid votes 6,885 100

References edit

  1. ^ State Secretaries, Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 November 2021.
  2. ^ Izbori Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova u Republici Srbiji, 1996, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 50.
  3. ^ He took his seat in 1997. See L. Valtner, "Šahista među političarima", Danas, 31 May 2009, accessed 5 November 2021. Considering his subsequent rise in the local party organization, it is probable that he was re-elected in 2000, in which the SPS again won a local majority. Confirmation of this point does not appear to be available online. For the 2000 results in Žitište, see Izbori, 2000. Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 36.
  4. ^ "Izbori poništeni zbog jednog glasača", Glas javnosti, 13 October 2004, accessed 5 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Zoran Kasalović ipak predsednik", Glas javnosti, 20 October 2004, accessed 5 November 2021.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 21 Number 5 (30 April 2008), p. 2.
  7. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Zitište), Volume 21 Number 7 (5 May 2008), pp. 1-2.
  8. ^ "Žitište: Sednica kasnila zbog protesta", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 31 July 2008, accessed 4 November 2021.
  9. ^ 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. Kasalović did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of leading the list.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 26 Number 13 (24 April 2012), p. 10.
  11. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 26 Number 15 (9 May 2012), pp. 1-2.
  12. ^ "Predsednik opštine Žitište (DS) podneo ostavku", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 7 August 2013, accessed 4 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Predsednička vrteška u Žitištu", Radio Television of Serbia, 8 August 2013, accessed 4 November 2013.
  14. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 30 Number 12 (13 April 2016), p. 5.
  15. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 30 Number 16 (27 April 2016), p. 5.
  16. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 30 Number 18 (20 May 2016), p. 26.
  17. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 31 Number 25 (6 September 2017), p. 11.
  18. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 31 Number 39 (22 December 2017), p. 1.
  19. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 34 Number 19 (10 June 2020), p. 2.
  20. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 34 Number 22 (28 June 2020), p. 4.
  21. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Žitište), Volume 34 Number 37 (20 November 2020), p. 1.
  22. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (11 Социјалистичка партија Србије), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 November 2021.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 November 2021.
  25. ^ Информације о одржаним седницама 2008. године (16. јул 2008. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 November 2021.
  26. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 November 2021.
  27. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 November 2021.
  28. ^ State Secretaries, Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 November 2021.
  29. ^ "Zoran Kasalović postavljen za državnog sekretara u Ministarstvu prosvete", Zrenjaninski, 13 November 2020, accessed 5 November 2021.
  30. ^ Mirjana N. Stevanović, "Državni sekretari često bolje plaćeni od svojih ministara", Danas, 30 June 2021, accessed 5 November 2021.
  31. ^ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., Archived 2010-10-03 at the Wayback Machine, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021; Lokalni Izbori u Srbiji 2004 Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy, 27 September 2007, accessed 11 July 2021.
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