Sima Radulović

Sima Radulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Сима Радуловић; born 1955) is a lawyer and politician in Serbia. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and held high office in the City of Niš during the same period. During his political career, Radulović was a member of the Civic Alliance of Serbia (Građanski savez Srbije, GSS).

Early life and career

Radulović 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 Law and was a member of the non-governmental organization G17 Plus prior to its registration as a political party.[1]

Politician

In 2000, the GSS joined the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to Slobodan Milošević's administration. Milošević was defeated by DOS candidate Vojislav Koštunica in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed moment in Serbian politics. In the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections, Radulović won election to the City Assembly of Niš as a DOS/GSS candidate in the twenty-fifth division.[2] The DOS parties won a landslide victory in city and afterwards formed a new coalition government. The GSS took part in the administration, and Radulović was appointed as a vice-president of the city's executive board, initially with responsibility for economy and finance and later with responsibility for civil administration reform.[3][4]

Following Milošević's defeat in the Yugoslavian election, a transitional government was established in Serbia and a new Serbian parliamentary election was called for December 2000. Radulović received the seventy-first position on the DOS's electoral list and was awarded a mandate after the coalition won a landslide victory with 176 out of 250 mandates.[5] (From 2000 to 2011, all mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were distributed to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order. Radulović did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list position, though he was included in the GSS delegation all the same.)[6] He took his seat when the assembly convened in January 2001 and served as a government supporter.[7]

In July 2003, Radulović was appointed as a parliamentary delegate to Serbia's lustration commission, which was to review the responsibility of individuals in human rights violations starting from 23 March 1976, when the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights came into effect.[8] He was later chosen as president of the body, although his appointment ended when his parliamentary term expired. In standing down from the committee, he complained that its work had not begun and that it seemed likely the country's incoming government would abandon it entirely.[9]

The GSS contested the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election on the electoral list of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS), and Radulović was included in the 221st position.[10] The list won thirty-seven mandates, and he was not included in the GSS's delegation afterwards.[11] His term in the assembly ended in early 2004.

The GSS board in Niš subsequently became divided into rival camps. Radulović resigned from the presidency of the board in March 2003 and also stood down from his role as a party representative in the city's administration.[12] He later withdrew from the party entirely and started an independent political movement called the "League for Niš."[13][14]

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 Serbian local elections. Radulović ran for mayor of Niš under the banner of the "League for Niš" and finished last in a field of nine candidates. He later rejoined the GSS after a change in its leadership and served on the party's presidency.[15] The GSS contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election on the list of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno demokratska partija, LDP); Radulović appeared in the 185th position and did not receive a new mandate after the list won fifteen seats.[16] He appears to have withdrawn from political life after this time.

Electoral record

Local (City of Niš)

2004 City of Niš local election
Mayor of Niš - First and Second Round Results[17]
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. ^ ИЗВРШНИ ОДБОР: Потпредседник за реформу градске управе, Archived 2004-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, City of Niš, accessed 1 January 2022.
  2. ^ Списак одборника, Скупштина града Ниша, Archived 2001-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, City of Niš, accessed 20 December 2021.
  3. ^ КОНСТИТУИСАНА ЈЕ СКУПШТИНА ГРАДА НИША Archived 2001-04-23 at the Wayback Machine, Service of the Daily News from Niš, accessed 1 January 2022.
  4. ^ ИЗВРШНИ ОДБОР: Потпредседник за реформу градске управе, Archived 2004-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, City of Niš, accessed 1 January 2022.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска опозиција Србије – др Војислав Коштуница (4 Демократска странка, Демократска странка Србије, Социјалдемократија, Грађански савез Србије, Демохришћанска странка Србије, Нова Србија, Покрет за демократску Србију, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Реформска демократска странка Војводине, Коалиција Војводина, Савез војвођанских Мађара, Демократска алтернатива, Демократски центар, Нова демократија, Социјалдемократска унија, Санxачка демократска партија, Лига за Шумадију, Српски покрет отпора – Демократски покрет), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 3 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Ugled - ulaznica za komisiju", Glas javnosti, 12 July 2003, accessed 1 January 2022.
  9. ^ Teofil Pančić, "Kraj lustracione bajke", Vreme, 21 January 2004, accessed 1 January 2002.
  10. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА - БОРИС ТАДИЋ) Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  11. ^ PRVA SEDNICA, 27.01.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Uvedena 'prinudna uprava'", Glas javnosti, 26 March 2004, accessed 1 January 2022.
  13. ^ "epo stoje sve stranačke boje", Glas javnosti, 15 May 2004.
  14. ^ "Najavljuju borbu protiv kriminala i korupcije", Glas javnosti, 16 September 2004, accessed 1 January 2022.
  15. ^ Predsedništvo GSS Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, Service of the Daily News from Niš, accessed 1 January 2022.
  16. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Либерално демократска партија - Грађански савез Србије - Социјалдемократска унија - Лига социјалдемократа Војводине - Чедомир Јовановић), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 December 2021.
  17. ^ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2004, Archived 2004-11-22 at the Wayback Machine, 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%).