Jovan Palalić

Jovan Palalić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Палалић; born April 26, 1971) is a politician in Serbia. He has served several terms in the National Assembly of Serbia. Once a prominent member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije; DSS), Palalić is now the general secretary of the Serbian People's Party (Srpska narodna partija; SNP).

Early life and career

Palalić was born in Bačka Palanka, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate of the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law.[1]

Political career

Democratic Party of Serbia

Palalić received the forty-fifth position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won fifty-three mandates, and he was included in the party's assembly delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order.[3] Palalić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list position, but he was awarded a mandate all the same.) The DSS subsequently formed a coalition government with other parties, and Palalić served on the government side in the assembly. He chaired the committee on the judiciary and administration from 2004 to 2006.[4]

Palalić was president of the DSS's executive committee from 2005 to 2010 and chief of the party's campaign staff in the 2007 parliamentary election, which the party contested in an alliance with New Serbia and other parties.[5] Their combined list won forty-seven mandates, and Palalić, who received the thirty-third position, was again included in his party's assembly delegation.[6] He subsequently represented the DSS in talks with Serbian president Boris Tadić on the formation of a new ministry.[7] The DSS remained in government during the sitting of parliament that followed, and Palalić chaired the assembly committee on local self-government.[8]

He received the eighteenth position on a combined DSS–New Serbia list in the 2008 election and received a third mandate after the list won thirty mandates.[9] The DSS moved into opposition following the election, when a new coalition government was formed under the leadership of the rival Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka; DS). Palalić continued to serve as chair of the committee on local self-government.[10]

Palalić opposed a state visit by Joseph Biden to Serbia in 2009, accusing the American vice-president of being anti-Serb.[11] He spoke against the prospect of Serbia joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at the same time, saying, "Serbia has no place in an organization that bombed Serbia and the [ Republika Srpska ], occupied Kosovo-Metohija, and supported the independence of that phoney state."[12] He later opposed a 2010 resolution by the Serbian Assembly apologizing for the Srebrenica massacre, on the grounds that it inappropriately placed blame on Serbs as a people. He was quoted as saying, "This will put a burden on all future generations in Serbia, by saying that Serbia is responsible and failed to prevent everything that happened in Srebrenica."[13]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Palalić received the eighteenth position on the DSS's list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won twenty-one mandates.[14] The party once again served in opposition. He was promoted to the eleventh position on the party's list for the 2014 election but failed to be re-elected when the party failed to cross the electoral threshold needed to win representation in the assembly.[15] He subsequently left the DSS.

Serbian People's Party

In September 2014, Palalić joined with other former DSS officials to form a new organization known as the Serbian People's Party (SNP).[16] The party contested the 2016 parliamentary election on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list; Palalić received the forty-third position and was easily returned to the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 131 out of 250 seats.[17] In the 2016–20 parliament, Palalić was a member of the assembly's foreign affairs committee and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (where Serbia has observer status); the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Liechtenstein; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Armenia, Belarus, China, France, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland.[18]

Three SNP candidates were elected in the 2016 election. All, including Palalić, served as members the Progressive Party's parliamentary group.[19]

Palalić received the forty-third position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[20] and was elected to a sixth term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

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References
  1. JOVAN PALALIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 May 2018.
  2. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Archived 2017-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. JOVAN PALALIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 May 2018.
  5. "Serbia paper says democratic parties waging 'affirmative' campaigns," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 7 December 2006 (Source: Glas javnosti, Belgrade, in Serbian 5 Dec 06).
  6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017.
  7. "Serbian president holds consultations with PM's party, Kosovo plan insisted on," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 30 January 2007 (Source: Radio B92 text website, Belgrade, in English 1332 gmt 30 Jan 07).
  8. JOVAN PALALIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 May 2018.
  9. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска Странка Србије - Нова Србија - Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017.
  10. JOVAN PALALIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 May 2018.
  11. "Serbia nationalists opposed to Biden visit," Associated Press Newswires, 15 May 2009.
  12. "Serbian opposition parties protest over visit of US vice-president," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 15 May 2009 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1115 gmt 15 May 09).
  13. Stephanie Van Den Berg, "Serbia holds landmark Srebrenica debate," Agence France Presse, 30 March 2010.
  14. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  15. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  16. "New Serbian centre-right party founded," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 24 September 2014 (Source: Blic website, Belgrade, in Serbian 0000 gmt 21 Sep 14).
  17. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  18. JOVAN PALALIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 9 May 2018.
  19. As of May 2018, Otvoreni Parlament erroneously lists Palalić as being a member of the Progressive Party (although the correct information appears in the main body of his entry). See JOVAN PALALIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 May 2018.
  20. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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