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Strength Of Serbia Movement
The Strength of Serbia Movement – BK ( sr, Покрет Снага Србије – БК, Pokret Snaga Srbije, PSS–BK) is a conservative political party in Serbia. History Party was founded in 2004. Its founder and current leader of PSS-BK is Bogoljub Karić, Serbian businessman and tycoon under criminal charges in flight. Since the 2012 parliamentary election its member of the big tent and populist coalition around the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). Political positions PSS has been described as a conservative, liberal-conservative, populist, and pro-Russian party. It is positioned on the centre-right on the political spectrum. Elections Parliamentary elections Presidential elections Provincial elections The Movement received 42,813 votes (6.69%) and won 4 seats in the first round of the 2004 Vojvodina parliamentary election First round of the Vojvodina provincial elections was held on September 19, 2004, at the same time when the local election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bogoljub Karić
Bogoljub Karić ( sr-Cyrl, Богољуб Карић, ; born 17 January 1954) is a Serbian businessman and politician. Early life and education Bogoljub was born to Janićije Karić and Danica Kuzmanović. He earned a degree in Geography at the University of Pristina and his Master's Degree in economy at University of Niš. He married Milanka Babić and has four children Nebojša, Nadežda, Jelena and Danica. Career The Karić family have owned manufacturing business in Eastern Europe since the 1960s. The population knows him simply as a mechanic from Kosovo without a degree. He opened a workshop, starting with small operations of under ten employees. From this, Karić grew his business empire into multibillion-dollar corporation, now known as the Astra Group. The Astra (BK) Group is composed of the following industry sectors: * manufacturing, civil engineering and constructing * International wholesales export-import trading * Telecommunications and electronic media (GSM and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Serbian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 21 January 2007 to elect members of the National Assembly. The first session of the new National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia was held on 14 February 2007. The elections enabled the coalition of DS; DSS & G17+ to continue. Electoral system The d'Hondt method was used to distribute parliamentary mandates following the election. Parties and coalitions had 10 days following the announcement of the final results to decide which candidates will take their allotted seats in parliament. Parties then had three months to negotiate a government. Parties registering as ethnic minority parties (options 8, 10, 14, 17, 19 and 20) did not need to surpass the 5% threshold to gain seats in the parliament, but instead needed to pass a natural threshold at 0.4%. For the first time in a decade, Albanian parties from the Preševo Valley participated in the elections, but Kosovo Albanian parties continued their boycott of Serbian elections. 6,652,1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Serbian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Serbia on 2 April 2017. Incumbent president Tomislav Nikolić was eligible to run for a second five-year term, but opted not to do so. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić was elected president in the first round. The election was marred by accusations of voter intimidation and a near total domination of the Serbian media by Vučić and his party. Following the announcement of the results, protests were held across Serbia against Vučić's victory. The OSCE have announced that there are reports of pressure on employees of state and state-affiliated institutions to support Vučić and secure, in a cascade fashion, support from subordinate employees, family members, and friends. The OSCE report noted that general reluctance of media to report critically on or to challenge the governing authorities significantly reduced the amount of impartial information available to voters, that all private national television channels displayed preferential treat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milanka Karić
Milanka Karić ( sr-cyr, Миланка Карић; born September 15, 1957) is a Serbian politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2020 as a member of the Strength of Serbia Movement, a political party led by her husband Bogoljub Karić. Early life and education Karić was born in Peja, Kosovo and Mehotija, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Niš. Business career and philanthropy The Karić family was one of the richest in Serbia during the 1990s. More recent reports suggest that their wealth and influence, though reduced, remain significant. Milanka Karić has been active in several of the family's business and philanthropic concerns, including serving as president of the Karić Foundation. Political career 2008 presidential campaign Karić ran as the Strength of Serbia Movement's candidate for president of Serbia in the 2008 el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Serbian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Serbia on January 20 and February 3, 2008. Incumbent President Boris Tadić was re-elected as president in the second round with 51% of the vote, defeating challenger Tomislav Nikolić. The elections for president were the first since Serbia became independent, when the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was dissolved by the secession of Montenegro in 2006. The first round of elections was held on January 20, 2008, when none of the candidates secured an absolute majority of the votes cast. Thus a run-off election took place on February 3, 2008 between Tomislav Nikolić of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) and Boris Tadić of the Democratic Party (DS) (the incumbent President) who finished first and second respectively in the first round. 6,708,697 registered voters were able to vote, which was around 50,000 more since the parliamentary election held in the beginning of 2007, on 8,481 electoral posts across Serbia and 65 in 36 foreign countries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Serbian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in the Republic of Serbia on Sunday, 13 June 2004. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on Sunday, 27 June. Boris Tadić, the pro-western Democratic Party's candidate, was the eventual victor with 54% of the vote. Candidates *Boris Tadić, Democratic Party (advanced to second round) *Tomislav Nikolić, Serbian Radical Party (advanced to second round) ---- *Dragan Maršićanin, Democratic Party of Serbia *Bogoljub Karić, Strength of Serbia Movement *Ivica Dačić, Socialist Party of Serbia *Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia * Vladan Batić, Democratic Christian Party of Serbia *Borislav Pelević, Party of Serbian Unity *Branislav Ivković, Socialist People's Party * Zoran Milinković, Patriots of Serbian Diaspora *Marijan Rističević, People's Peasant Party * Ljiljana Aranđelović, United Serbia * Dragan Đorđević, Party of Serbian Citizens * Milovan Drecun, Serbian Revival * Mirko Jović, People's Radic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Serbian General Election
General elections were held in Serbia on 3 April 2022 to elect both the president and members of the National Assembly. Initially, parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held in 2024; however, in October 2020 president Aleksandar Vučić stated that snap parliamentary elections would be held in or before April 2022. In addition to the general elections, local elections were held simultaneously in 12 municipalities and 2 cities, including Belgrade. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came to power in 2012 after forming a government with the Socialist Party of Serbia. They won a supermajority of seats following the 2020 parliamentary election, which was boycotted by the major opposition Alliance for Serbia that claimed that "the election would not be free and fair". Vučić, who was elected president in 2017, faced protests during his first term, most notably during 2018–2020 and in July 2020. Vučić also oversaw the inter-party dialogues regarding electoral conditions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Serbian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 24 April 2016. Initially, the election were originally due to be held by March 2018, but on 17 January 2016 Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called for a snap election claiming Serbia "needs four more years of stability so that it is ready to join the European Union". The elections were held simultaneously with provincial elections in Vojvodina and nationwide local elections. Voter turnout was 56%. Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party-led coalition retained its majority, winning 131 of the 250 seats. In contrast to the 2014 elections, a record-breaking seven non-minority lists passed the 5% threshold. Several parties returned to the National Assembly, including the Serbian Radical Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Serbia, while three parties entered for the first time; the liberal Enough is Enough, the conservative Dveri (in coalition with the Democratic Party of Serbia) and the Green Party (as a Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Serbian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 16 March 2014, with nineteen electoral lists competing for 250 members of the National Assembly. The election was called early, after tensions in the coalition led by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić scheduled the election at the same time as the previously announced Belgrade City Assembly election. Voter turnout was 53.09%, with 3.22% of votes invalid. The Serbian Progressive Party and their coalition won the election by a landslide, receiving just under half the valid votes and winning an absolute majority of 158 seats in the assembly. Its former partner the Socialist Party of Serbia matched its previous achievement with 44 seats, while only two more non-ethnic lists surpassed the 5% threshold: the Democratic Party (DS) with 19 seats, and the New Democratic Party coalition led by former president Boris Tadić with 18 seats. A number of long-time p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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