Života Starčević
Живота Старчевић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
3 August 2020
Personal details
Born1968
NationalitySerbian
Political partyDSS (until 2014)
JS (2014–present)

Života Starčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Живота Старчевић; born 1968) is a Serbian politician. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of United Serbia (JS).

Early life and private career

Starčević has a bachelor's degree in geography. He worked as a teacher in Jagodina until 2006, when he was appointed as head of academic administration in the Pomoravlje District.[1]

Politician

Democratic Party of Serbia

Starčević entered politics as a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). He appeared in the 202nd position (out of 250) on a combined electoral list of the DSS and New Serbia (NS) in the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won thirty seats, and he was not included 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 the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Starčević could have been given a seat in the assembly despite his low position on the list, but he was not.)[3] He also appeared on the DSS's list for Jagodina in the concurrent 2008 Serbian local elections and was elected to the city assembly when the list won two seats.[4] Jagodina is United Serbia's main area of support, and a local JS-led coalition won a majority victory in 2008.[5]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Starčević received the sixty-first position on the DSS list for the 2012 parliamentary election and was not elected when the list won twenty-one seats.[6] He was re-elected to the Jagodina assembly in the 2012 local elections, seemingly after appearing in the lead position on the DSS list.[7] The JS's coalition again won a majority victory in the city.[8] Starčević was vice-president of the DSS's executive board at the republic level in this period.[9]

Starčević was promoted to the thirty-fifth position on the DSS's list in the 2014 parliamentary election.[10] The list did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation. He resigned from the DSS to join United Serbia in October 2014, citing Vojislav Koštunica's departure as DSS leader and the party's poor strategy in recent elections.[11]

United Serbia

Since 2008, United Serbia has contested Serbian parliamentary elections as part of a coalition led by the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). Starčević was given the ninety-first position on the SPS-led list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was not elected when the list won twenty-nine seats.[12] He also appeared in the eighth position on a JS–SPS list in Jagodina for the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won twenty-one out of thirty-one seats.[13][14]

Parliamentarian

Starčević was promoted to the seventh position on the SPS–JS list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won thirty-two seats.[15] He served as deputy leader of the JS parliamentary group, which provided outside support to Serbia's administration led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). In his first term, he was a member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a member of the subcommittee on the information society and digitalisation; a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Eritrea and the Netherlands; and a member of the friendship groups with Austria, Egypt, Greece, Italy, North Korea, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[16]

He was re-elected in the 2022 parliamentary election after again receiving the seventh position on the SPS–JS list, which won thirty-one seats.[17] He continues to serve as deputy leader of the JS group and is deputy president of the administrative committee; a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; and a member of the friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Nepal, North Macedonia, Palestine, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.[18]

In June 2023, Starčević demanded that Rade Basta be dismissed from the Serbian government after Basta, a JS member, called for sanctions against Russia in defiance of the party's views.[19] Basta was indeed removed from office shortly thereafter.

Local politics since 2020

Starčević again appeared in the eighth position on the JS-led list for Jagodina in the 2020 local elections and was elected to a fourth term when the list won seventeen out of twenty-one seats.[20][21] He continues to serve in the city assembly.[22]

References

  1. ↑ ŽIVOTA STARČEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године (ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ – 3 Демократска Странка Србије - Нова Србија - Војислав Коштуница), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Скупштина града Јагодине, Archived 2009-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, City of Jagodina, accessed 10 September 2023.
  5. ↑ ОПШТИНСКА ИЗБОРНА КОМИСИЈА САОПШТИЛА КОНАЧНЕ РЕЗУЛТАТЕ ЛОКАЛНИХ ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА ЈАГОДИНЕ, Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, City Assembly of Jagodina, accessed 7 September 2022.
  6. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 28 September 2021.
  7. ↑ СКУПШТИНА ГРАДА, Archived 2013-08-15 at the Wayback Machine, City of Jagodina, accessed 10 September 2022.
  8. ↑ REZULTATI IZBORA 2012 (Jagodina - Rezultati izbora 2012.), Archived 2012-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy, accessed 20 December 2021; ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2012., Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 13, 68.
  9. ↑ "Koštunica podnosi ostavku?", Radio Television of Serbia, 19 March 2014, accessed 10 September 2023.
  10. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 4 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "ŽIVOTA STARČEVIĆ I ČETIRI ODBORA DSS PRELAZE U JEDINSTVENU SRBIJU", infocentrala.rs, 22 October 2014, accessed 10 September 2023.
  12. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (3 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2021.
  13. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Grada Jagodine), 13 April 2016.
  14. ↑ Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; 2016 Local Elections; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 13, 62.
  15. ↑ "Ko je sve na listi SPS-JS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 7 March 2020, accessed 30 April 2021.
  16. ↑ ZIVOTA STARCEVIC, Archived 2021-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 September 2022.
  17. ↑ "Ko su kandidati liste SPS-JS-ZS „Ivica Dačić – Premijer Srbije“ za poslanike", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 28 April 2022.
  18. ↑ ZIVOTA STARCEVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 September 2023.
  19. ↑ M.R. Milenković, "Starčević: Nećemo podržati smenu Gašića, ali tražimo smenu Baste", Danas, 12 June 2023, accessed 10 September 2023.
  20. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Grada Jagodine), 10 June 2020.
  21. ↑ Odluka konacni rezultati 29.06.2020, City of Jagodina; Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija, 2020 local elections, Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia, pp. 13, 52.
  22. ↑ СКУПШТИНА ГРАДА, City of Jagodina, accessed 10 September 2023.
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