Ljubiša Stojmirović

Ljubiša Stojmirović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубиша Стојмировић; born September 11, 1950) is a politician in Serbia. He has served several terms in the National Assembly of Serbia. Formerly a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, Stojmirović now serves with the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Stojmirović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Organizational Sciences in 1978, focusing on organizational cybernetics. He subsequently received a master's degree from the same institution in 1980 and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mathematics in 1998. Stojmirović taught at the Central Economic School in Grocka from 1982 to 1985, worked for a time at the maritime agency Jugoagent, began teaching at the Belgrade Business School in 2000, and became a full professor at the latter institution in 2005.[1] He is now retired and divides his time between Belgrade and Crna Trava.[2]

Political career

Radical Party

Stojmirović joined the Radical Party in 1991, the year of the party's formation, and was a frequent candidate for public office in the 1990s. He sought election to the Yugoslavian federal assembly's Chamber of Citizens in the May 1992 federal election, running in the single-member constituency of Mladenovac, and finished second against Radivoje Jovanović of the Socialist Party of Serbia.[3]

Stojmirović subsequently received the eighteenth position on the Radical Party's electoral list for Belgrade in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election and the fourteenth position in the same division in the 1993 Serbian election.[4][5] The Radicals won twelve seats in Belgrade in 1992 and seven in 1993; Stojmirović was not selected for its assembly delegation on either occasion.[6][7] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates on the lists by the sponsoring parties.[8] It was common practice for the latter mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Stojmirović could have been awarded a mandate despite his relatively low position on the list; in the event, however, he was not.)

He received the second position on the Radical Party's list for Voždovac in the 1996 Yugoslavian parliamentary election.[9] The Radicals won only one seat in the division, and he was again not elected.[10]

For the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election, Stojmirović received the eighth position on the Radical Party's list in Čukarica.[11] The party won four mandates in the division,[12] and he was on this occasion included in its assembly delegation.[13] The election was won by the Socialist Party of Serbia and its allies. The Radicals originally served in opposition, although from 1998 to 2000 the party participated in a coalition government with the Socialists and the Yugoslav Left. After the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration in October 2000, a new transitional government was established that excluded the Radicals, and the party returned to opposition.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed for the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, with the entire country becoming a single electoral constituency and with parliamentary mandates being awarded to list candidates at the discretion of successful parties, without specific reference to numerical order.[14] Stojmirović was included on the Radical list.[15] The party won twenty-three seats, and he was not included in its assembly delegation.

Stojmirović served as president (i.e., mayor) of the Belgrade municipality of Zvezdara from February to June 2005, in the context of a local alliance with the Democratic Party of Serbia, the Socialists, and other parties. He also sought election as chair of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade in November 2007, although he was not successful.[16][17]

He was also included on the Radical Party's electoral lists in the 2007 and 2008 parliamentary elections, although he was not included in its assembly delegation on either occasion.[18]

Progressive Party

The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, with several of its members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Stojmirović was among those who sided with the Progressives.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed again in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Stojmirović received the thirty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving list for the 2012 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.[19] The Progressives formed a new coalition government with the Socialists and other parties after the election, and Stojmirović served in the assembly as a government supporter. He was re-elected in the 2014 and 2016 elections, in which the Progressive-led lists won landslide victories.[20]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Stojmirović was the deputy chair of the assembly's committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a member of the foreign affairs committee and of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association parliamentary committee; the head of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Central European Initiative; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Cuba;[21] and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, China, Djibouti, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Malawi, Micronesia, Moldova, Nepal, North Macedonia, Oman, the Philippines, Russia, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[22]

He received the fifty-sixth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 parliamentary election[23] and was elected to a fifth term when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates.

Electoral record

Federal (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
May 1992 Yugoslavian Federal Election
Chamber of Citizens: Mladenovac[24]
Radivoje Jovanović Socialist Party of Serbia 25,224 47.42
Ljubiša Stojmirović Serbian Radical Party 17,914 33.68
Radivoje Jašić League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia 5,959 11.20
Predrag Kovačević Citizens' Group 4,094 7.70
Total valid votes 53,191 100

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  14. 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.
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  20. Stojmirović received the twenty-fifth list position on both occasions. The lists won landslide victories in these elections, winning 158 and 131 seats, respectively. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017; and 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.
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