Bojan Milovanović

Bojan Milovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојан Миловановић; born 11 July 1960) is a Serbian politician and administrator. He was the mayor of Raška from 2000 to 2008 and also served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2008. Milovanović is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS).

Private career

Milovanović is a specialist doctor in emergency medicine.[1]

Politician

Mayor of Raška

Milovanović was the president of the Socialist Party's municipal committee in Raška at the time of the 2000 Serbian local elections. The party won a majority victory in the municipality; this occurred at the same time as the defeat of SPS leader Slobodan Milošević in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, an event that led to large-scale changes in Serbia's political culture.[2] Daily protests took place in Raška after the municipal vote due to suspicions of electoral fraud. One of the protestors' demands was for control of TV Most, the municipality's television station, which was officially owned by the SPS. Milovanović negotiated an agreement with local opposition leaders, which allowed for a transition in the station's leadership and changes in its programming.[3]

Despite the controversy surrounding the election, the municipal results were allowed to stand. Milovanović, who had been elected as a SPS member, was chosen as president of the assembly, a position that was at the time equivalent to mayor. While the Socialists held a majority of seats, Milovanović brought the opposition Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) into government, and its leaders held some important administrative positions. He faced challenges maintaining support for the coalition within his own party; he threatened to resign in 2002, although he ultimately did not do so.[4]

Serbia briefly introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections, and Milovanović was re-elected as mayor of Raška in the second round of voting.

During his tenure as mayor, Milovanović sought investors to complete the hotel and beautify the spa in Jošanička Banja, both of which were in a state of disrepair.[5][6] In November 2007, following a decision by the local assembly, he named Russian president Vladimir Putin as an honorary citizen of Raška.[7]

Parliamentarian

Milovanović appeared in the 136th position on the SPS's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[8] The list won sixteen mandates, and he was included in his party's assembly delegation.[9] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Milovanović's position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – had not specific bearing on his chances of election.)[10] After the election, the DS, the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS), and G17 Plus formed an unstable coalition government, and the SPS served in opposition. Milovanović chaired the assembly's committee for poverty reduction and was a member of its health and family committee.[11]

The DS–DSS alliance broke down in early 2008, and a new parliamentary election was held in May of that year. Milovanović once again appeared on the SPS's list, which won twenty seats.[12] On this occasion, he was not given a mandate.[13]

Serbia abandoned the direct election of mayors after 2004. Milovanović appeared in the second position on the SPS's list in the 2008 local elections in Raška.[14] The list won nine mandates, finishing in second place; he did not take a seat, and his term as mayor came to an end.[15][16][17]

Since 2008

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that assembly mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Milovanović led the SPS's list for the Raška municipal assembly in the 2012, 2016, and 2020 local elections and was re-elected each time.[18][19][20] He resigned his seat in the assembly on 1 November 2021.[21]

Milovanović appeared in the 115th position on the SPS's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and the ninety-eighth position in the 2016 election.[22][23] The lists won forty-four and twenty-nine seats, respectively, and he was not re-elected on either occasion.

In 2009, Milovanović was appointed as director of the Kopaonik national park.[24] He continues to hold this position as of 2022.

Electoral record

Municipal (Raška)

2004 Municipality of Raška local election: Mayor of Raška (second round results)

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Bojan Milovanović	Socialist Party of Serbia	5,264	56.11
	Milan Pejčinović	Strength of Serbia Movement	4,118	43.89
Total			9,382	100.00
Source: [25][26]

References

1. 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.
2. Izbori, 2000. Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 66.
3. "Sestra Gorice Gajević došla 'po svoje'", Glas javnosti, 10 October 2000, accessed 8 October 2022. See also "Sestra Gorice Gajević došla 'po svoje'", Glas javnosti, 14 December 2001, accessed 8 October 2022.
4. "Izdali ga partijski drugovi", Glas javnosti, 6 April 2002, accessed 8 October 2022.
5. "Ulagači, dobro došli", Glas javnosti, 7 December 2001, accessed 8 October 2022.
6. "Hotel grade dve decenije", Glas javnosti, 28 January 2003, accessed 8 October 2022.
7. "Serbian town makes Putin 'honorary citizen'", B92, 28 November 2007.
8. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (11 Социјалистичка партија Србије), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
9. 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 July 2018.
10. 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.
11. ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: МИЛОВАНОВИЋ, ДР БОЈАН "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-26. Retrieved 2022-10-09., National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 October 2022.
12. He appeared in the 146th position; the list was again mostly alphabetical. See 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)), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 May 2021.
13. 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 October 2022.
14. Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 19 (30 April 2008), p. 4.
15. Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 19 (20 May 2008), p. 1.
16. Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 19 Number 90 (10 June 2008), p. 1.
17. For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order. See Law on Local Elections (2007) Archived 2022-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
18. Službeni List (Opštine Raška), Volume 23 Number 123 (1 June 2012), p. 2.
19. Službeni List (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 158 (11 April 2016), p. 2; Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 159 (10 May 2016), p. 1.
20. Službeni List (Opštine Raška), Volume 30 Number 214 (10 June 2020), p. 2; Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 159 (10 May 2016), p. 1; Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 30 Number 215 (22 June 2020), p. 1.
21. Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 239 (1 November 2021), p. 1.
22. 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)"), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 May 2021.
23. 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 18 May 2021.
24. Đurđica Bogosavljević and Sanja Zrnić, "Kopaonik – Prožimanje prirodnog bogatstva i kulturnog nasleđa", Vreme, 20 September 2012, accessed 8 September 2022.
25. ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2022-05-25., Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021.
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