Miljko Četrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљко Четровић; born 4 November 1949) is a Serbian former politician. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS).
Early life and career
[edit]Četrović was born in Kraljevo, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1973.[1]
Politician
[edit]Early years (2000–03)
[edit]Četrović became president of the Radical Party's Kraljevo board and appeared in the lead position on its electoral list for the Kraljevo division in the 2000 Yugoslavian parliamentary election.[2] The list did not win any seats.[3] Četrović was also the SRS's candidate in Kraljevo's fortieth division for the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections and, like all Radical Party candidates in Kraljevo during this cycle, was defeated.[4][5]
The 2000 Yugoslavian elections saw the defeat of incumbent president Slobodan Milošević, a watershed moment in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. The Serbian government fell after the Yugoslavian vote, and a new Serbian parliamentary election was held in December 2000. Serbia's electoral laws were reformed prior to the election, such that the entire country became a single division and all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties and coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.[6] Četrović appeared in the eighty-fifth position on the Radical Party's list and was not given a mandate when the list won twenty-three seats.[7]
Kraljevo held early local elections in 2003. By this time, Serbia had introduced both the direct election of mayors and proportional representation for local assembly elections. Četrović ran as the SRS's mayoral candidate and was defeated in the first round; he was, however, elected to the municipal assembly when the party's list won thirteen seats.[8]
Parliamentarian (2003–07)
[edit]Četrović appeared in the fifty-sixth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election and was this time included in his party's delegation when the list won eighty-two mandates.[9] He took his seat when the assembly met in January 2004.[10] Although the Radicals were the largest party in this sitting of the legislature, they fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. This notwithstanding, Četrović was chosen in February 2004 as president of the assembly committee for relations with Serbs outside of Serbia.[11] He also served on the finance committee and the privatization committee.[12]
Četrović attempted to initiate a recall election against Kraljevo's sitting mayor Radoslav Jović in late 2005. Jović instead chose to resign from office, saying that he did not want to defend his position at the expense of taxpayers.[13] A by-election was held to select his replacement in February 2006; Četrović ran as the Radical Party's candidate and was defeated in the second round of voting.
In November 2006, Četrović left the Radical Party's caucus in the municipal assembly and formed a new a group called the "Free Radicals."[14] He indicated that his decision was rooted in "irreconcilable differences" with Vjerica Radeta, the Radical Party's leader for the Raška District, whom he charged with using "lies, fraud and nonsense" to interfere with the work of SRS municipal board.[15] He did not appear on the SRS's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election and his term in the national assembly ended in that year. He was also not re-elected to the Kraljevo assembly in the 2008 local elections and appears to have withdrawn from public life after this time.[16]
Electoral record
[edit]Local (Kraljevo)
[edit]Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Dr. Miloš Babić | New Serbia–Velimir Ilić | 14,509 | 42.07 | 20,068 | 76.84 | |
Miljko Četrović | Serbian Radical Party | 5,477 | 15.88 | 6,048 | 23.16 | |
Slobodan Mihajlović | Democratic Party–Boris Tadić | 3,658 | 10.61 | |||
Zvonko Obradović | G17 Plus | 2,947 | 8.54 | |||
Mirko Vuković | Serbian Renewal Movement | 2,674 | 7.75 | |||
Prof. Dr. Dragoslav Kočović | Socialist Party of Serbia | 1,713 | 4.97 | |||
Đorđe Pavlović | Strength of Serbia Movement–Bogoljub Karić | 1,622 | 4.70 | |||
Dr. Zoran Miljković | Citizens' Group: Movement: Kraljevo Above All | 1,336 | 3.87 | |||
Zoran Jovanović | People's Party | 553 | 1.60 | |||
Total | 34,489 | 100.00 | 26,116 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 34,489 | 98.51 | 26,116 | 98.46 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 523 | 1.49 | 409 | 1.54 | ||
Total votes | 35,012 | 100.00 | 26,525 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 102,152 | 34.27 | 102,152 | 25.97 | ||
Source: [17] |
Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
Dr. Radoslav Jović | Serbian Renewal Movement | 10,514 | 22.34 | 17,230 | 58.99 | |
Dr. Ljubiša Jovašević | Democratic Party of Serbia–People's Democratic Party–Vojislav Koštunica | 7,618 | 16.19 | 11,978 | 41.01 | |
Miroslav Karapandžić | Citizens' Group: For Kraljevo | 5,542 | 11.78 | |||
Zvonko Obradović | G17 Plus | 5,204 | 11.06 | |||
Slobodan Mihajlović | Democratic Party | 5,192 | 11.03 | |||
Miljko Četrović | Serbian Radical Party | 4,375 | 9.30 | |||
Sreten Jovanović | Socialist Party of Serbia | 3,079 | 6.54 | |||
Prof. Dr. Predrag Stojanović Peđa | Christian Democratic Party of Serbia | 2,607 | 5.54 | |||
Zoran Jovanović | People's Party and "Revival of Serbia" | 1,772 | 3.77 | |||
Stamenka Arsić | Liberals of Serbia and Democratic Centre | 1,152 | 2.45 | |||
Total | 47,055 | 100.00 | 29,208 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 47,055 | 96.96 | 29,208 | 98.15 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,477 | 3.04 | 550 | 1.85 | ||
Total votes | 48,532 | 100.00 | 29,758 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 101,521 | 47.80 | 101,521 | 29.31 | ||
Source: [18][19] |
References
[edit]- ^ Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 16 Number 2381 (January 2006), p. 1.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 901 (September 2000), p. 12.
- ^ ИЗБОРИ 2000: ВЕЋЕ РЕПУБЛИКА И ВЕЋЕ ГРАЂАНА САВЕЗНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (2000), p. 78.
- ^ Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 1201 (September 2000), p. 28.
- ^ Izbori, 2000. Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, p. 66.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ Direktorijum lokalnih samouprava u Srbiji, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), September 2005, pp. 164-165.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2. СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 24 November 2022.
- ^ Избор председника и заменика председника скупштинских одбора, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 12 February 2004, accessed 24 November 2022.
- ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ЧЕТРОВИЋ, МИЉКО, "Narodna skupstina Republike Srbije". Archived from the original on 2006-10-15. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
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- ^ Kraljevo online - vesti iz Kraljeva..., Archived 2007-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, kraljevo.com, accessed 24 November 2022.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Kraljeva), Volume 41 Number 1 (13 June 2008), p. 1.
- ^ IZBORI ZA PREDSEDNIKA OPŠTINA U KRALJEVU I BEČEJU, Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), February 2006, accessed 22 November 2022.
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