Bore Kutić

Bore Kutić (Serbian Cyrillic: Боре Кутић; born 1955) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 and in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2008 to 2020. Initially a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, he joined the Serbian Progressive Party on its formation in 2008.

Private career

Kutić is a lawyer and criminologist. He is from Nadalj, in the municipality of Srbobran.[1]

Politician

Member of the National Assembly

Kutić was given the 104th position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The party won eighty-two mandates, and Kutić was subsequently selected for its assembly delegation.[3] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian assembly elections were awarded to parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Kutić's list position had no formal bearing on whether or not he received a mandate.)[4] The Radical Party emerged from the election with the largest number of seats, but it fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. Kutić served as a Radical Party parliamentarian for the next three years.

Kutić also appeared on the Radical Party's lists in the 2007 and 2008 parliamentary elections, although he was not selected for a mandate on either occasion.[5]

Provincial politics

Kutić sought election to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2004 provincial election, running in the Srbobran constituency seat. He was defeated in the second round of voting. (During this period, half of the seats in the Vojvodina assembly were determined by proportional representation and the other half by elections in single-member constituencies.)

He received the forty-eighth position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2008 provincial election.[6] The list won twenty seats, and he was selected for a mandate.[7] The Democratic Party and its allies won the election, and the Radicals again served in opposition.

The Radical Party experienced a serious split later in 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Kutić sided with the Progressives and was a founding member of their parliamentary group in the assembly.[8]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Kutić was given the fourth position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2012 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won fourteen mandates.[9] The election won again won the by the Democratic Party, and Kutić remained an opposition member for the next four years.

Vojvodina switched to a system of full proportional representation prior to the 2016 provincial election. Kutić was given the twenty-first position on the Progressive list and was elected to a third term when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.[10] After the election, he was appointed as chair of the committee for co-operation with the committees on the national assembly in exercising the competencies of the province.[11] He subsequently chaired the committee for inter-communal relations in Vojvodina.[12] He did not seek re-election in 2020.

Municipal politics

Kutić has also been active in the municipal politics of Srbobran. He was the Radical Party's candidate for mayor of the municipality in the 2004 Serbian local elections and was defeated by independent candidate Branko Gajin in the second round. (This was the only electoral cycle since 1990 in which mayors of Serbian cities and municipalities were directly elected.)

He subsequently appeared in the lead position on the Radical Party's list for the municipal assembly in the 2008 local elections, although he did not claim a mandate afterwards.[13][14] He received the third position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2012 local elections and was elected when the list won four mandates.[15][16] He resigned his mandate on 23 August 2012.[17]

Electoral record

Assembly of Vojvodina

2004 Vojvodina assembly election
Srbobran (constituency seat) – first and second rounds[18]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes % Votes %
Milan Dunđerski (incumbent) Democratic Party 1,432 23.43 3,308 53.28
Bore Kutić Serbian Radical Party 1,815 29.70 2,901 46.72
Ferenc Čuzdi Coalition: Together for Vojvodina - Nenad Čanak 1,343 21.97
Nestor Golubski Socialist Party of Serbia 688 11.26
Nada Vranjković Strength of Serbia Movement 506 8.28
Milan Nenadov Serbian Renewal Movement 328 5.37
Total valid votes 6,112 100 6,209 100
Invalid ballots 351 166
Total votes casts 6,463 47.71 6,375 47.06

Municipality of Srbobran

2004 Srbobran municipal election
Mayor of Srbobran – second round Results[19]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes %
Branko Gajin Citizens' Group: Alliance for Our Municipality of Srbobran 3,608 57.72
Bore Kutić Serbian Radical Party–Tomislav Nikolić 2,643 42.48
Total valid votes 6,251 100

References

  1. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  2. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 8 March 2021.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ He received the Radical Party's 109th position in 2007 and the 219th position in 2008. 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 8 March 2021; 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 8 March 2021. See also 14 February 2007 legislature and 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
  6. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине 11. мај 2008. године (Изборна листа 4 - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ), Избори 2008, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 11 February 2011.
  7. ^ "Raspodeljeno pola pokrajinskih mandata", Blic, 1 June 2008, accessed 8 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Mirović: Važnija je stranka od mandata", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 23 September 2008, accessed 8 March 2021.
  9. ^ Изборна листа 5 - ПОКРЕНИМО ВОЈВОДИНУ-ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ:СРПСКА НАПРЕДНА СТРАНКА, НОВА СРБИЈА, ПОКРЕТ СОЦИЈАЛИСТА, ПОКРЕТ СНАГА СРБИЈЕ-БК - кандидати за посланике Archived 2020-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 January 2021.
  10. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Održana druga sednica Skupštine Autonomne pokrajine Vojvodine", Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, 20 June 2016, accessed 8 March 2021.
  12. ^ Norbert Šinković, "Osuda napada u Vojvodini", Radio Free Europe, 24 October 2014, accessed 8 March 2021.
  13. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Srbobran), Volume 41 Number 2 (5 May 2008), p. 18.
  14. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Srbobran), Volume 41 Number 4 (12 June 2008), p. 1.
  15. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Srbobran), Volume 45 Number 3 (26 April 2012), p. 24.
  16. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Srbobran), Volume 45 Number 4 (21 May 2012), p. 2.
  17. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Srbobran), Volume 45 Number 6 (23 August 2012), p. 1.
  18. ^ Укупни резултати избора расписаних за 19. септембар 2004. године - већински изборни систем (49 СРБОБРАН) Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
  19. ^ The fact that Gajin won the election in the second round is confirmed by ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "REPUBLICKI ZAVOD ZA STATISTIKU - Republike Srbije". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2022-07-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021; Kutić's identity as the candidate he defeated in the second round is confirmed in Lokalni Izbori u Srbiji 2004 "Rezultati izbora po opstinama". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2021-07-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Center for Free Elections and Democracy, 27 September 2007, accessed 11 July 2021.