Dragan Jovanović (Serbian Politician, Born 1957)
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Dragan S. Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Драган С. Јовановић; born 28 February 1957) is a Serbian engineer, administrator, and politician. He served in the
National Assembly of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ), fully the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (), is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are ...
from 2004 to 2007 and was at different times the director of the ''
TPP Nikola Tesla TPP Nikola Tesla, commonly known as TENT, is a power plant complex operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije, located on the right bank of the river Sava, approximately 40 km upstream from Downtown Belgrade, near the city municipality of Obren ...
'' and '' TPP Kostolac'' energy plants. Jovanović is a member of the
Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006. SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance ...
(''Socijalistička partija Srbije'', SPS).


Early life and private career

Jovanović was born in the municipality of
Obrenovac Obrenovac ( sr-cyr, Обреновац, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has a population of 68,882 inhabitants, while the urban area has 25,380 inhabitants. The old name for Obreno ...
in the city of
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, in what was then the
People's Republic of Serbia The Socialist Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Социјалистичка Република Србија, Socijalistička Republika Srbija), previously known as the People's Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / " ...
in the
Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...
. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in
Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
and began working for ''Nikola Tesla'' in 1984.


Politician


The Milošević Years (1992–2000)

During the 1990s, Serbian and Yugoslavian politics were dominated by the authoritarian rule of SPS leader
Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...
. Jovanović was elected to the
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for Obrenovac's fourth division in the May 1992 and
December 1992 Serbian local elections Local elections were held in cities and municipalities across Serbia on 20 December 1992, with a second round of voting taking place on 3 January 1993. The local elections were held concurrently with parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia, preside ...
. The SPS won majority victories in both elections, and he served as a supporter of the local administration. He was not re-elected in
1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
. Jovanović appeared in the fifth position on a combined list of the SPS, the
Yugoslav Left The Yugoslav Left, also known as the Yugoslav United Left (JUL), was a political party in Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. At its peak, the party had 20 seats in Republic of Serbia's National Assembly following the 1997 general e ...
(''Jugoslovenska Levica'', JUL), and
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(''Nova demokratija'', ND) for the
Čukarica Čukarica ( sr-cyr, Чукарица, ) is a Subdivisions of Belgrade, municipality of the city of Belgrade, Serbia. Name Like several other neighborhoods of Belgrade, Čukarica was named after a kafana. At the present location of the Sugar Refin ...
division in the
1997 Serbian parliamentary election General elections were held in the Yugoslav province of Serbia on 21 September 1997, to elect the president and members of the National Assembly. With no presidential candidate receiving over 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round wa ...
. The list won four seats, and he was not chosen for a mandate. (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 at the discretion of the sponsoring parties. Jovanović could have been given a mandate despite his list position, although in the event he was not.) Slobodan Milošević was defeated in the
2000 Yugoslavian presidential election General elections were held in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 24 September 2000.Dieter Nohlen & Philip StöverP (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1678 They included the presidential election, which was held using the two- ...
, a watershed moment in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. Jovanović ran for the Yugoslavian parliament's Chamber of Citizens in the concurrent federal assembly vote, appearing in the fifth and final position on a combined SPS–JUL list in Čukarica. The list won two seats, and he was not assigned a mandate. He was also defeated for Obrenovac's second division in the concurrent 2000 Belgrade city election.


Since 2000

Serbia's election laws were reformed in 2000, such that the entire country became a single electoral unit and all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order. Jovanović was given the 102nd position on the SPS's (mostly alphabetical) list in the
2003 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 28 December 2003 to elect members of the National Assembly of Serbia, National Assembly. Serbia had been in a state of political crisis since the overthrow of the post-communist ruler, Slobodan Milo ...
and was chosen for a mandate when the list won twenty-two seats. The
Democratic Party of Serbia The New Democratic Party of Serbia (, , abbr. NDSS), known as the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) until 2022, is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Miloš Jovanović serves as the current president of NDSS. DSS was formed as ...
(''Demokratska stranka Srbije'', DSS) emerged as the dominant power in Serbia's
coalition government A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive. Coalition governments usually occur when no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an ...
after the election, and the SPS provided outside support to the administration in the assembly. Jovanović served on the committee for industry and the committee for science and technological development. He was also appointed to a special committee investigating practices at
Elektroprivreda Srbije Elektroprivreda Srbije (abbr. EPS; full legal name: Javno preduzeće ''Elektroprivreda Srbije'' Beograd) is a joint-stock company, joint-stock electric utility power company fully owned by the Government of Serbia, with headquarters in Belgrade, ...
(EPS). Jovanović received the 105th position on the SPS list in the 2007 parliamentary election. The party fell to sixteen seats, and he was not given a mandate for a second term. He also appeared on the SPS's electoral lists for the Belgrade city assembly in the
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
and 2008 local elections, though he was not included in the party's delegation on either occasion. Serbia's election laws were reformed again in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Jovanović appeared in the 148th position on the SPS's coalition list in the 2012 parliamentary election, the eighty-eighth position in
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, and the sixty-fifth position in
2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
. Election from any of these places would have been improbable, and indeed he was not elected when the coalition around the SPS won forty-four seats in 2012 and 2014 and twenty-nine in 2016. In 2017, Jovanović became interim leader of the SPS's municipal board in Obrenovac.


Energy sector administrator

Jovanović was appointed as director of ''Nikola Tesla'' in February 1997 and served in this role until January 2001. He was later accused of abuse of office in the position, specifically by illegally awarding apartments in Belgrade to power plant workers. Online accounts do not indicate how the matter was resolved. He worked in large investment projects with ''Nikola Tesla'' from 2001 to 2004 and held administrative positions at EPS after September 2004. He was appointed deputy director of ''Kostolac'' in 2006 and promoted to director in 2009. In this role, he was active in negotiating a contract for large-scale investment with the
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. In December 2014, he announced that Serbia and China would soon sign a deal worth more than $600 million for investment in a new coal-fired power plant. He left ''Kostolac'' the following month, when he was appointed as an executive director of EPS. In January 2022, he was awarded the ''Đorđe Stanojević'' honorary certificate and medallion from Elektroprivreda Srbije.Dragan S. Jovanović - Winner of EPS Award
Elektroprivreda Srbije, 11 January 2022, accessed 29 December 2022.


Electoral record


Local (City of Belgrade)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jovanovic, Dragan 1957 births Living people Politicians from Belgrade People from Obrenovac Members of the City Assembly of Belgrade Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Socialist Party of Serbia politicians