Vladan Vučićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Владан Вучићевић; born 17 September 1955) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2008 as a member of New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS).

Private career

Vučićević is a medical doctor specializing in maxillofacial surgery. He lives in Kragujevac.[1]

Politician

Vučićević entered political life in the 1990s as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO). He appeared in the third position on the party's electoral list for the Yugoslavian parliament's Chamber of Citizens in the 2000 Yugoslavian general election and was not elected when the party failed to cross the electoral threshold in the division.[2][3] He also ran unsuccessfully for the City Assembly of Kragujevac in the concurrent 2000 local elections. He later left the SPO and joined New Serbia, although he offered praise for his former party in a 2007 interview.[4]

Parliamentarian

New Serbia contested the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election on a combined electoral list with the SPO. Vučićević appeared in the forty-second position and was given a mandate when the list won twenty-two seats.[5][6] (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. Vučićević's specific list position had no bearing on his chances of election.)[7] He took his seat when parliament convened in January 2004. After the election, New Serbia participated in a coalition government led by the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS), and Vučićević served as a supporter of the administration. He was deputy chair of the committee on transport and communications and a member of the health and family committee.[8]

For the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, New Serbia formed a new electoral alliance with the DSS. Vučićević was a candidate on their combined list and was awarded a mandate for a second term when the list won forty-seven seats.[9][10] Following the election, New Serbia participated in Serbia's new coalition government, dominated by the DSS and the rival Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS); Vučićević remained a government supporter. He was promoted to chair of the transport and communications committee and continued to serve on the health and family committee.[11]

The fragile DS–DSS coalition broke down in early 2008, and a new parliamentary election was held in May of that year. Vučićević once again appeared on a shared DSS–NS list, in the forty-seventh position.[12] The list fell to thirty mandates, and he was not given a mandate for a third term.[13]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. New Serbia contested the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election on the Let's Get Serbia Moving list led by the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpkska napredna stranka, SNS). Vučićević appeared in the 124th position; the list won seventy-three mandates and he was not re-elected.[14]

Local politics

Although Vučićević was sometimes politically aligned with Veroljub Stevanović at the republic level, the two men were rivals in the local politics of Kragujevac. Vučićević was New Serbia's candidate for mayor in the 2004 Serbian local elections, the only regular electoral cycle since World War II in which mayors were directly elected. During the campaign, he was strongly critical of Stevanović's past record in office.[15] He was defeated in the first round of voting; New Serbia's list won four out of eighty-seven seats in the concurrent city assembly elections, and he took a seat in that body.[16][17]

In 2007, Vučićević led New Serbia in submitting criminal charges against a number of Stevanović's leading associates.[18] He also filed a private lawsuit after Stevanović called him a "quack doctor" and questioned his academic credentials.[19]

He appeared in the second position on a combined DSS–NS list in the 2008 local elections and received another mandate when the list won six seats.[20][21][22][23]

Vučićević was given the tenth position on an SNS-led list in the 2012 local elections and was re-elected when the list won eighteen seats.[24][25] Soon after the election, he announced his resignation from New Serbia.[26] He initially served with the SNS's group in the local assembly, but by August 2012 he had become an independent member.[27][28] He led his own independent list in the 2016 local elections; the list did not cross the threshold for assembly representation.[29][30]

Electoral record

Local (City of Kragujevac)

2004 City of Kragujevac local election
Mayor of Kragujevac - First and Second Round Results[31] [32]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes  % Votes  %
Veroljub Stevanović Verko Together for Kragujevac 22,032 38.59 32,610 73.72
Dragutin Radosavljević Democratic Party–Boris Tadić 9,856 17.26 11,624 26.28
Slavica Đukić Dejanović Socialist Party of Serbia 6,232 10.92
Mileta Poskurica Serbian Radical Party–Tomislav Nikolić 5,822 10.20
Dragan Bataveljić Strength of Serbia Movement–Bogoljub Karić 3,288 5.76
Goran Davidović Democratic Party of Serbia–Vojislav Koštunica 2,899 5.08
Vladan Vučićević New Serbia 2,479 4.34
Dobrica Milovanović For Our City 2,253 3.95
Miroslav Marinković G17 Plus–Miroljub Labus 1,094 1.92
Radiša Pavlović Workers' Resistance 574 1.01
Branislav Kovačević Cole League for Šumadija 562 0.98
Total valid votes 57,091 100 44,234 100
2000 City of Kragujevac local election
City Assembly of Kragujevac: Division 34[33]
Dobrija Đurić Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left
Milan Dojčilović DEMOS – Movement for Europe
Dušan Golubović Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Affiliation: Democratic Party of Serbia) Elected
Dobrosav Mihajlović Serbian Radical Party
Dr. Vladan Vučićević Movement for Kragujevac (Affiliation: Serbian Renewal Movement)

References

  1. ↑ "Vratiću se hirurgiji i privatnoj praksi", Danas, 12 November 2007, accessed 11 March 2022.
  2. ↑ Srpska reč, Number 262 (31 August 2000), p. 9.
  3. ↑ ИЗБОРИ 2000: ВЕЋЕ РЕПУБЛИКА И ВЕЋЕ ГРАЂАНА САВЕЗНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (2000), p. 34. The SPO did not win any seats in the Chamber of Citizens in this cycle.
  4. ↑ "Vratiću se hirurgiji i privatnoj praksi", Danas, 12 November 2007, accessed 11 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6. СРПСКИ ПОКРЕТ ОБНОВЕ - НОВА СРБИЈА - ВУК ДРАШКОВИЋ - ВЕЛИМИР ИЛИЋ) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  6. ↑ "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 27 February 2022.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ВУЧИЋЕВИЋ ДР, ВЛАДАН Archived 2007-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 March 2022.
  9. ↑ He appeared in the seventy-ninth position. See 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.
  10. ↑ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 December 2021.
  11. ↑ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ВУЧИЋЕВИЋ ДР, ВЛАДАН Archived 2007-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 March 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. ↑ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
  14. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 ПОКРЕНИМО СРБИЈУ - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ (Српска напредна странка, Нова Србија, Асоцијација малих и средњих предузећа и предузетника Србије, Коалиција удружења избјеглица у Републици Србији, Покрет снага Србије - БК, Народна сељачка странка, Бошњачка народна странка, Демократска партија Македонаца, Ромска партија, Покрет влашког уједињења, Покрет социјалиста, Покрет привредни препород Србије)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 May 2021.
  15. ↑ "On je samo farbao kontejnere", Glas javnosti, 31 July 2016, accessed 11 March 2022.
  16. ↑ SPISAK ODBORNIKA – SKUPŠTINE GRADA KRAGUJEVCA Archived 2005-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, City of Kragujevac, accessed 11 March 2022.
  17. ↑ Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; p. 80.
  18. ↑ "Krivične prijave protiv gradonačelnikovih saradnika", Glas javnosti, 6 June 2007, accessed 11 March 2022.
  19. ↑ "Vratiću se hirurgiji i privatnoj praksi", Danas, 12 November 2007, accessed 11 March 2022.
  20. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 18 Number 12 (30 April 2008), p. 5.
  21. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 18 Number 14 (12 May 2008), p. 15.
  22. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 18 Number 16 (27 May 2008), p. 13.
  23. ↑ Одборници, Archived 2012-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, City of Kragujevac, accessed 11 March 2022.
  24. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 22 Number 19 (24 April 2012), p. 8.
  25. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 22 Number 21 (7 May 2012), p. 16.
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  29. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 26 Number 10 (13 April 2016), p. 8.
  30. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kragujevca), Volume 26 Number 16 (25 April 2016), pp. 9-20.
  31. ↑ "Gradska izborna komisija saopštila konačne rezultate lokalnih izbora u Kragujevcu", Archived 2004-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, Glas Kragujevca, 20 September 2004, accessed 11 March 2022.
  32. ↑ "Veroljub Stevanović i zvanično izabran za gradonačelnika Kragujevca", Archived 2004-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, Glas Kragujevca, 5 October 2004, accessed 11 March 2022.
  33. ↑ Kandidati za izbor odbornika u Skupstini grada Kragujevca, NGO Millennium, accessed 4 April 2000; SPISAK ODBORNIKA – SKUPŠTINE GRADA KRAGUJEVCA, Archived 2004-04-28 at the Wayback Machine, City of Kragujevac, accessed 28 April 2004.
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