Marijan Rističević ( sr-cyr, Маријан Ристичевић, born 1 March 1958) is a Serbian politician and leader of the
People's Peasant Party. He has been a member of 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 ...
since 2014.
Political career
He was a presidential candidate in the
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 ...
, when he won 0.33% of votes. He was one of the candidates in the
2008 Serbian presidential election when he won only 0.45% of votes. He then threw his support to
Tomislav Nikolić in the second round of voting.
Rističević portrays himself as a colorful but uneducated peasant, and has gained notoriety in Serbian public because of that image. At one instance, he parked his tractor in front of the building of the National Assembly.
[ 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 ...
the party in coalition with Party of Serbian Unity and others won 1.79% of the total vote.
References
1958 births
Living people
People's Peasant Party politicians
Candidates for President of Serbia
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