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2012 Serbian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Serbia on 6 May 2012 alongside parliamentary elections. The elections were called following President Boris Tadić's early resignation in order to coincide with the parliamentary and local elections to be held on the same date. The Speaker of the Parliament, Slavica Đukić Dejanović, took over as the Acting President. As no candidate won a majority, a runoff was on 20 May, with incumbent Tadić facing Tomislav Nikolić of the Serbian Progressive Party. According to preliminary results published by CeSID, Ipsos and RIK, Tomislav Nikolić had beaten his opponent Boris Tadić and is the new President of Serbia. Official results confirmed that, putting Nikolić at 51% against Tadić's 49%. Candidates First round of the elections was held on 6 May. Republic Electoral Commission has confirmed twelve candidates. Candidate numbers were decided using a random draw on 20 April. Campaign Both the SNS and the DS supported Serbia's candidature for the ...
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Tomislav Nikolić
Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), he disassociated himself with the party in 2008 and formed the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) which he led until 2012. Born in village Bajčetina near Kragujevac, Nikolić was a long-time member of parliament for SRS. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 1998 to 1999 and Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia in the coalition government from 1999 to 2000. Nikolić was the deputy leader of SRS from 2003, and he briefly served as the President of the National Assembly of Serbia in 2007. In 2008, he resigned following a disagreement with party leader Vojislav Šešelj regarding Serbia's relations with the European Union, as Nikolić became in favour of Serbia's accession to the EU, a move that was staunchly opposed by Šeš ...
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University Of Belgrade Faculty Of Law
The Faculty of Law of the University in Belgrade ( sr, Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду/''Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu''), also known as the Belgrade Law School, is one of the first-tier educational institutions of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is located in the heart of the old part of Belgrade, in the urban neighborhood of Palilula, contiguously to the city park Tašmajdan, on Bulevar kralja Aleksandra. History The Faculty of Law, established in 1808 as part of the University of Belgrade, is one of the largest law schools in the region, with a long tradition of being a leader in the country's legal education. In the beginning, the Countess Ljubica's Residence was home to this educational institution, which was at that time within the Belgrade Higher School. The law school has always rallied distinguished scholars and lecturers. Since its founding, it has educated almost 50,000 law graduates, around 1,200 ...
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Movement Of Workers And Peasants
The Movement of Workers and Peasants ( sr, Покрет Радника и Сељака, Pokret radnika i seljaka, PRS) was a left-wing political party in Serbia. It was founded in October 2011 by Zoran Dragišić and appears to have become inactive following the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election. Origins Dragišić had previously been the leader of a small party called the Independent Social Democrats (''Nezavisni Socijaldemokrata'', NSD), which had merged into the newly formed Social Democratic Party of Serbia (''Socijaldemokratska partija Srbije'', SDPS) in 2009. He later became disappointed with the SDPS's direction and left the party to form a new organization. He was chosen as the leader of the Movement of Workers and Peasants at the party's founding convention in October 2011. At the time, he indicated that the party's purpose would be to "give the state back to the people" and noted that it was supported by a number of worker organizations, including Serbia's Union of Rasp ...
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Zoran Dragišić
Zoran Dragišić ( sr-cyr, Зоран Драгишић; born 21 January 1967) is a Serbian politician and professor at Faculty of Security Studies in Belgrade. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as part of the parliamentary grouping of the Serbian Progressive Party (''Srpska napredna stranka''; SNS), although he is not a member of the party. He was previously a candidate for president of Serbia in the 2012 presidential election. Early life and private career Dragišić was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and grew up in the Karaburma neighbourhood. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Security Studies in 1991 as valedictorian and subsequently earned a master's degree (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) from the university's law faculty. He has worked in the department of security studies since 1994, been an associate professor of security management since 2010, and ...
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Zoran Dragišić (cropped)
Zoran Dragišić ( sr-cyr, Зоран Драгишић; born 21 January 1967) is a Serbian politician and professor at Faculty of Security Studies in Belgrade. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as part of the parliamentary grouping of the Serbian Progressive Party (''Srpska napredna stranka''; SNS), although he is not a member of the party. He was previously a candidate for president of Serbia in the 2012 presidential election. Early life and private career Dragišić was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and grew up in the Karaburma neighbourhood. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Security Studies in 1991 as valedictorian and subsequently earned a master's degree (1999) and Ph.D. (2004) from the university's law faculty. He has worked in the department of security studies since 1994, been an associate professor of security management since 2010, and ...
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December 2002 Serbian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of Serbia on December 8, 2002. They followed elections in September and October which were invalidated due to voter turnout not meeting the 50% requirement. Although the legal requirement of a turnout of at least 50% of registered voters was dropped for the second round of this election, turnout in the first round was below 50%, invalidating the election before a second round. Results References {{Serbian elections 2002 12 Serbia 2002 12 Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ... Presidential 2 ...
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Serbian Presidential Election, September–October 2002
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Prime Minister Of Serbia
The prime minister of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, премијерка Србије, premijerka Srbije; masculine: премијер/premijer), officially the president of the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, председница Владе Републике Србије, predsednica Vlade Republike Srbije; masculine: председник/predsednik) is the principal executive minister of the Government of Serbia. The prime minister directs the work of the government, and submits to the National Assembly the government's program, including a list of proposed ministers. The resignation of the prime minister results in the dismissal of the government. The current prime minister, Ana Brnabić was nominated by the former prime minister and current president of the Republic, Aleksandar Vučić and elected and appointed by the National Assembly on 29 June 2017. Brnabić currently heads her third cabinet, which was formed in October 2022. History of the office The first moder ...
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President Of The Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia
The President of Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Председник Србије и Црне Горе, Predsednik Srbije i Crne Gore) was the head of state of Serbia and Montenegro. From its establishment in 1992 until 2003, when the country was Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro, reconstituted as a confederacy (state union) via constitutional reform, the head of state was known as the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( sr, Председник Савезне Републике Југославије, Predsednik Savezne Republike Jugoslavije, italic=yes). With the constitutional reforms of 2003 and the merging of the offices of head of government and head of state, the full title of the president was President of Serbia and Montenegro and Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Председник Србије и Црне Горе / Председник Савета министара ...
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Democratic Party Of Serbia
The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Initially known and formed as Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), the party was formed as a conservative split from the Democratic Party (DS), and has played a key role in the opposition during the 1990s. It was a part of the "Together" coalition and was later a founding member of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS). Its first leader, Vojislav Koštunica, was elected president of Yugoslavia in 2000, a role which he served until 2003. DSS left the DOS government in 2001, and served in the opposition until the 2003 parliamentary election, after which it managed to form a government with other right-wing parties. Koštunica was appointed prime minister, and after 2008, it went to the opposition again after being unable to form a government. It saw its decline in the 2010s ...
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Vojislav Koštunica
Vojislav Koštunica ( sr-cyrl, Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the prime minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008. Koštunica won the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election as a candidate of a broad alliance Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), which led to overthrow of Slobodan Milošević and the withdrawal of international sanctions against Yugoslavia. He strictly opposed cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and his party left the coalition government in protest at the decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY. After the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, the first elections after the dissolution of DOS and assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, Koštunica formed a minority government with the support of the Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia and became the head of gove ...
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Vojislav Koštunica 2005
Vojislav ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав, ) is a Serbian masculine given name, a Slavic dithematic name (of two lexemes), derived from the Slavic words ''voj'' ("war, warrior"), and ''slava'' ("glory, fame"), which both are very common in Slavic names. Its feminine form is '' Vojislava''. It may refer to: *Stefan Vojislav (fl. 1034–43), Serbian ruler *Vojislav Brajović (born 1949), Serbian actor * Vojislav Đonović (1921–2008), Serbian jazz guitarist *Vojislav Ilić (1860–1894), Serbian poet *Vojislav Jovanović Marambo, Serbian university professor and diplomat * Vojislav V. Jovanović, Serbian writer *Vojislav Koštunica (b. 1944), Serbian politician *Vojislav Melić (1940–2006), Yugoslav footballer *Vojislav Mihailović (born 1951), Serbian politician *Vojislav Nikčević (1935–2007), Montenegrin linguist *Vojislav Šešelj (b. 1954), Serbian politician *Vojislav Vranjković (b. 1983), Serbian footballer *Vojislav Vukčević (b. 1938), retired Serbian politician See al ...
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