Goran Ilić

Goran Ilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Илић; born 19 August 1961) is an academic and politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2006, was a deputy minister in Serbia's government from 2006 to 2008, and has held high-level office at the city level in Niš. Ilić is a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS).

He is not to be confused with a public prosecutor in Serbia of the same name.

Early life and academic career

Ilić was born in Niš, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Niš Faculty of Medicine in 1986, passed a specialist exam in 1993, received his master's degree in 1994, and earned a Ph.D. in 1999. He is now a professor at the university as well as the director of its institute of forensic medicine. Ilić has published widely in his field.[1]

Politician

Ilić became politically active as a member of the DSS in 2001, and in February 2002 he was selected as one of the party's representative on the executive board in Niš's city government.[2][3] He was recalled from this role in May 2003, when the DSS announced it would cease to participate in the work of the local administration; this occurred amid tensions between the party and the rival Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS), which dominated the city's government at the time.[4]

Ilić was given the fortieth position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] The list won fifty-three seats, and he was subsequently awarded a mandate.[6] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order. Ilić was not automatically elected by virtue of his list position.)[7] The DSS became the leading party in a coalition government after the election, and Ilić served as a supporter of the administration.

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections; Ilić was the DSS's candidate in Niš and finished in fifth place. He also led the DSS's list for the City Assembly of Niš in the concurrent assembly election and was elected when the list won eight mandates.[8][9] There were difficulties in establishing a stable government in the city after the election, but the DSS eventually participated in a coalition with several other parties, and on 4 April 2005 Ilić was chosen as the president (i.e., speaker) of the city assembly.[10]

Ilić resigned his parliamentary mandate on 27 March 2006 after being appointed as a deputy minister of health in Serbia's government.[11] He was a DSS candidate in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in which the party's list won forty-seven mandates. He did not take a seat in the assembly afterwards but was confirmed for another term as a deputy minister when the DSS formed a new coalition government with the DS and G17 Plus.[12][13] In October 2007, he announced that Serbia would focus on a strategy of reducing the number of large hospitals for people with mental health issues and instead increase the number of local community centres providing support.[14]

In March 2008, Ilić was advised that he could not continue to function as both a deputy minister and assembly president. He challenged the ruling, saying that no-one had previously indicated to him that a conflict of interest existed, although he indicated a willingness to resign as assembly president if so required.[15]

The matter soon became moot. A new government was formed at the republic level by the DS, G17 Plus, and the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) following the 2008 parliamentary election, and the same coalition came to power in Niš after the 2008 local elections, with the result that DSS was excluded from power at both levels. Ilić against ran as a DSS candidate in the parliamentary election but did not take a seat in the assembly afterwards; his term as deputy minister ended when the new administration was formed.[16][17] His term as assembly president came to end in late July 2008.[18] It is unclear from online sources if Ilić took a seat in the city assembly after the 2008 vote; if he did, he had resigned by the end of the year.[19] He has not returned to electoral politics since this time.

Ilić remains active with the DSS and is a member of the party's executive board as of 2021.[20]

Electoral record

Local (City of Niš)

2004 City of Niš local election
Mayor of Niš - First and Second Round Results[21]
Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
Smiljko Kostić Political Organization for Democratic Change "New Serbia"–Velimir Ilić 15,115 23.68 38,291 63.63
Goran Ćirić (incumbent) Democratic Party–Boris Tadić 18,640 29.21 21,887 36.37
Dragoljub Stamenković Serbian Radical Party–Tomislav Nikolić 8,220 12.88
Branislav Jovanović G17 Plus 6,774 10.61
Goran Ilić Democratic Party of Serbia–Vojislav Koštunica 5,356 8.39
Zoran Bojanić Strength of Serbia Movement–Bogoljub Karić 4,685 7.34
Vlastimir Đokić Socialist Party of Serbia–Tomislav Jovanović 3,692 5.78
Ljubivoje Slavković Citizens' Group: For Niš see below
Sima Radulović Citizens' Group: League for Niš see below
Total valid votes 63,824 100 60,178 100

References

  1. ^ ПРЕДСЕДНИК СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА НИША: ДР ГОРАН ИЛИЋ, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-06-23. Retrieved 2021-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City of Niš, accessed 30 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Nije cilj da se obogatimo", Glas javnosti, 17 August 2004, accessed 30 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Smene u vladi", Glas javnosti, 26 February 2002, accessed 30 December 2021.
  4. ^ "DSS napušta gradsku vlast?", Glas javnosti, 30 May 2003, accessed 30 December 2021.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 29 December 2021.
  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. ^ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2004, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-11-22. Retrieved 2021-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City of Niš, 22 November 2004, accessed 23 December 2021.
  9. ^ In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Ilić automatically received a mandate. See Law on Local Elections Archived 2021-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  10. ^ "Uprkos kritikama – Ilić", Novosti, 4 April 2004, accessed 30 December 2021.
  11. ^ PRVA SEDNICA, PRVOG REDOVNOG ZASEDANJA, 27.03.2006., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 30 December 2021.
  12. ^ 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. The DSS contested this election in an alliance with New Serbia. Ilić appeared in the 150th position on the combined list.
  13. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 December 2021.
  14. ^ "Svetski dan mentalnog zdravlja", Radio Television of Serbia, 10 October 2007, accessed 30 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Pomoćnik ministra ili gradski čelnik", Novosti, 1 April 2008, accessed 30 December 2021.
  16. ^ 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 10 July 2021. The DSS again ran in an alliance with New Serbia. Ilić received the 217th position on the list.
  17. ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 December 2021.
  18. ^ Toma Todorović, "Novi niški čelnici", Politika, 1 August 2008, accessed 30 December 2021.
  19. ^ Скупштина града, "Skupština grada Niša". Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2021-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City of Niš, accessed 30 December 2021.
  20. ^ Извршни одбор, Democratic Party of Serbia, accessed 30 December 2021.
  21. ^ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2004, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-11-22. Retrieved 2021-12-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City of Niš, 22 November 2004, accessed 23 December 2021 [preliminary results for the first round]; Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 11, 46 [final results for the first round]. The latter source indicates that Slavković and Radulović received a combined total of 1,342 votes (2.10%) but does not break down the results for each candidate. The former source provides the following information: Slaković 688 votes (1.13%), Radulović 557 votes (0.92%).