Marko Marić (Party of United Pensioners of Serbia politician)

Marko Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Марић; born 1965) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2020 and is now an assistant mayor of Subotica.

Private career

Marić has a master of economics degree. He lives in Subotica.[1] He is not to be confused with a different Marko Marić, who was elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina in 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Politician

Assembly of Vojvodina

The PUPS contested the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election in an alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia. Marić appeared in the eighth position on the Socialist-led list and was elected when the list won nine mandates.[2] The election was won by the Democratic Party and its allies, and Marić served for the next four years in opposition.

For the 2016 provincial election, the PUPS formed a new alliance with the Progressive Party. Marić appeared in the twenty-ninth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.[3] He did not seek re-election at the provincial level in 2020.

Municipal politics

Marić appeared in the eighth position on the Socialist-led list for the Subotica city assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections.[4] The list won four mandates, and he was not elected.[5]

He was given the thirteenth position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 local elections and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with thirty-one out of sixty-seven mandates.[6][7] For the 2020 local elections, he was given the seventeenth position on the Progressive list and was re-elected when the list again won thirty-one seats.[8][9]

On 10 February 2021, Marić was appointed as assistant mayor of Subotica with responsibility for communal activities and public companies.[10] By virtue of holding this position, he was required to resign from the city assembly.[11]

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. ^ Изборна листа 8 - ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ-СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС), СОЦИЈАЛДЕМОКРАТСКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СДП Србије), Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 48 Number 23 (25 April 2012), p. 14.
  5. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 48 Number 30 (7 May 2012), p. 3.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 51 Number 24 (18 April 2016), p. 2.
  7. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 51 Number 26 (25 April 2016), p. 3.
  8. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 56 Number 29 (10 June 2020), p. 2.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 56 Number 32 (22 June 2020), p. 2.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 57 Number 5 (12 February 2021), p. 2.
  11. ^ Službeni List (Grada Subotice), Volume 57 Number 7 (4 March 2021), p. 1.