Ljubiša Stojmirović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубиша Стојмировић; born 11 September 1950) is a politician in Serbia. He has served several terms in the National Assembly of Serbia. Formerly a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, he has been a member of the Serbian Progressive Party since its founding in 2008.

Early life and career

Stojmirović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences in 1978, focusing on organizational cybernetics. He subsequently received a master's degree from the same institution in 1980 and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mathematics in 1998. Stojmirović taught at the Central Economic School in Grocka from 1982 to 1985, worked for a time at the maritime agency Jugoagent, began teaching at the Belgrade Business School in 2000, and became a full professor at the latter institution in 2005.[1] He is now retired and divides his time between Belgrade and Crna Trava.[2]

Political career

Radical Party

The Milošević years (1991–2000)

Stojmirović joined the Radical Party in 1991, the year of the party's formation, and was a frequent candidate for public office in the 1990s. He sought election to the Yugoslavian federal assembly's Chamber of Citizens in the May 1992 federal election in the single-member constituency of Mladenovac and finished second against Radivoje Jovanović of the Socialist Party of Serbia.[3]

He subsequently received the eighteenth position on the Radical Party's electoral list for the Belgrade division in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election and the fourteenth position in the same division in the 1993 parliamentary election.[4][5] The Radicals won twelve seats in Belgrade in 1992 and seven in 1993; Stojmirović was not selected for its assembly delegation on either occasion.[6][7] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed by the sponsoring parties amongst other candidates.[8] It was common practice for the latter mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Stojmirović could have been awarded a mandate on either occasion despite his relatively low position, but he was not.)

He received the second position on the Radical Party's list for the Voždovac division in the 1996 Yugoslavian parliamentary election.[9] The Radicals won only one seat in the division, and he was again not elected.[10]

For the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election, Stojmirović received the eighth position on the Radical Party's list for the Čukarica division in Belgrade.[11] The party won four mandates in the division,[12] and on this occasion he was included in its assembly delegation, serving his first term in parliament.[13] The election was won by the Socialist Party of Serbia and its allies. The Radicals initially served in opposition, although from 1998 to 2000 the party participated in a coalition government with the Socialists and the Yugoslav Left. After the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration in October 2000, a new transitional government was established that excluded the Radicals, and the party returned to opposition.

Stojmirović ran in Zvezdara's ninth constituency for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the 2000 Serbian local elections. He lost to Dragan Šutanovac of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia.

After the fall of Milošević (2000–08)

Serbia's electoral system was reformed prior to the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, with the entire country becoming a single electoral constituency and parliamentary mandates being awarded to listed candidates at the discretion of successful parties, without any specific reference to numerical order.[14] Stojmirović was included on the Radical Party's list in 2000.[15] The party won twenty-three seats, and he was not included in its assembly delegation.

He was elected to both the Belgrade city assembly and the Zvezdara municipal assembly in the 2004 Serbian local elections, leading the Radical Party's list in the latter jurisdiction.[16] He was president (i.e., mayor) of Zvezdara from February to June 2005, in the context of a local alliance with the Democratic Party of Serbia, the Socialists, and other parties. He also sought election as chair of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade in November 2007, although he was not successful.[17][18]

He was included on the Radical Party's electoral lists in the 2007 and 2008 parliamentary elections, though he was not included in its assembly delegation on either occasion.[19] He was also included on the Radical Party's list for the Belgrade city assembly and again held the lead position on the party's list for the Zvezdara municipal assembly in the 2008 Serbian local elections, but he did not take a seat at either level.[20]

Progressive Party

The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, with several of its members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Stojmirović sided with the Progressives.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed once again in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Stojmirović received the thirty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving list for the 2012 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.[21] The Progressives formed a new coalition government with the Socialists and other parties after the election, and Stojmirović served as a government supporter. He was re-elected in the 2014 and 2016 elections, in which the Progressive-led lists won landslide victories.[22]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Stojmirović was the deputy chair of the assembly's committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a member of the foreign affairs committee and of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association parliamentary committee; the head of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Central European Initiative; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Cuba;[23] and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, China, Djibouti, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Malawi, Micronesia, Moldova, Nepal, North Macedonia, Oman, the Philippines, Russia, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[24]

He received the fifty-sixth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 parliamentary election[25] and was elected to a fifth term when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates. He continues to serve on the education and science committee and is a member of the subcommittee on the information society and digitalization, a deputy member of the stabilization and association committee, and a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region. He is still the leader of Serbia's friendship group with Cuba and is a member of the friendship groups with Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, the Holy See, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, the Netherlands, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[26]

Electoral record

Federal (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)

May 1992 Yugoslavian Federal Election
Chamber of Citizens: Mladenovac[27]
Radivoje Jovanović Socialist Party of Serbia 25,224 47.42
Ljubiša Stojmirović Serbian Radical Party 17,914 33.68
Radivoje Jašić League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia 5,959 11.20
Predrag Kovačević Citizens' Group 4,094 7.70
Total valid votes 53,191 100

Municipal (City Assembly of Belgrade)

2000 City of Belgrade election
Zvezdara Division IX[28]
Aleksandar Antić Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left
Milorad Dimić Serbian Renewal Movement
Ljubiša Stojmirović Serbian Radical Party
Dušan Tanić Radical Party of Serbia
Dragan Šutanovac Democratic Opposition of Serbia elected

References

  1. ↑ LJUBIŠA STOJMIROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 29 June 2018.
  2. ↑ S. Kosorić, "Dan sa poslanikom Ljubišom Stojmirovićem", Danas, 24 August 2019, accessed 21 July 2020.
  3. ↑ ИЗБОРИ '92: КОНАЧНИ РЕЗУЛТАТИ, Republic of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1992), pp. 10.
  4. ↑ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Београд) Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 1 March 2017.
  5. ↑ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Београд) Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 7 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.
  7. ↑ Публикација Републичког завода за статистику о резултатима избора за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржаних 1993. године Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 April 2018.
  8. ↑ Guide to the Early Election Archived 2022-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
  9. ↑ Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication] (Issue 244), 1996, p. 1.
  10. ↑ ИЗБОРИ '96: ВЕЋЕ ГРАЂАНА САВЕЗНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1996), p. 38.
  11. ↑ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Чукарица) Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 1 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 1 March 2017.
  13. ↑ PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 29 June 2018.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ) Archived 2018-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. He received the 202nd list position out of 250.
  16. ↑ Stojmirović received the twelfth position on the Radical Party's list for the Belgrade assembly. The Radical Party won twenty-seven mandates for the Belgrade assembly and thirteen for the Zvezdara assembly. Stojmirović was awarded a mandate for both assemblies. See Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 48 Number 24 (8 September 2004), pp. 5, 43; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 48 Number 27 (20 September 2004), p. 1; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 48 Number 28 (21 September 2004), p. 2; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 48 Number 33 (23 November 2004), p. 13; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 48 Number 34 (29 November 2004), p. 2.
  17. ↑ "Prebrojavanja na Zvezdari", Vreme, 24 March 2005, accessed 29 June 2018.
  18. ↑ "Dva kandidata za gradonačelnika", Novosti, 20 November 2007, accessed 29 June 2018.
  19. ↑ He received the 151st position in 2007 and the 130th in 2008. The party won eighty-one and seventy-three seats, respectively, on these occasions. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, 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) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  20. ↑ He appeared in the sixth position on the party's list for Belgrade. The Radical Party won forty mandates in Belgrade and seventeen in Zvezdara. See Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 52 Number 12 (30 April 2008), p. 6; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 52 Number 13 (30 April 2008), p. 12; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 52 Number 15 (12 May 2008), p. 3; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 52 Number 18 (22 May 2008), p. 1; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 52 Number 22 (4 July 2008), p. 3; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 52 Number 24 (15 July 2008), pp. 1-2.
  21. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  22. ↑ Stojmirović received the twenty-fifth list position on both occasions. The lists won landslide victories in these elections, winning 158 and 131 seats, respectively. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017; and Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  23. ↑ Predsednik PGP sa Kubom prof. dr Ljubiša Stojmirović sastao se sa ambasadorom Kube u Srbiji, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 June 2018.
  24. ↑ LJUBISA Prof. Dr STOJMIROVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 26 June 2020.
  25. ↑ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  26. ↑ LJUBISA Prof. Dr STOJMIROVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 December 2020.
  27. ↑ ИЗБОРИ '92: КОНАЧНИ РЕЗУЛТАТИ, Republic of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1992), p. 19. This election was held under first past the post rules.
  28. ↑ 'Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 46 Number 13 (15 September 2000), p. 432; Službeni List (Grada Belgrada), Volume 46 Number 15 (20 October 2000), pp. 469-470.
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