Gordana Čabrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Гордана Чабрић; born 6 December 1962) is a politician in Serbia. She was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007, serving with the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS). Now a member of the Varvarin municipal assembly, she is aligned with the People's Party (Narodna stranka, NS) at the republic level.

Private career

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Čabrić is a medical doctor and administrator. In 2001, while serving as head of the health centre in Varvarin, she gave an interview on the safety of drinking water in that community and in nearby Ćićevac.[1]

Politician

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Parliamentarian

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Čabrić appeared in the sixtieth position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won fifty-three seats; she was not initially included in her party's assembly delegation but received a mandate on 13 July 2004 as the replacement for another party member.[3] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Čabrić's position on the list had no formal bearing on whether or when she received a seat.)[4] The DSS emerged as the leading party in Serbia's coalition government after the election, and Čabrić served as a government supporter. She was a member of the assembly committee for health and the family.[5]

Serbia briefly introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections. Čabrić was the DSS's candidate in Varvarin and was eliminated in the first round of voting.[6]

The DSS contested the 2007 parliamentary election in an alliance with New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS), and Čabrić received the seventy-sixth position on their combined list.[7] The alliance won forty-seven seats, and she was not given a mandate for a second term.[8]

Serbia's electoral laws were reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.

Recent local politics

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Čabrić received the third position on the electoral list of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) in Varvarin in the 2016 local elections and was elected when the list won fourteen mandates.[9][10] The SPO, which had governed Varvarin for several terms, narrowly lost the election and its members served afterward in opposition.[11] After a split in the SPO at the republic level, Čabrić became the leader of a local political group in Varvarin called "Naši Ljudi."[12] She led the movement's list in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list won five mandates.[13][14][15]

Čabrić appeared in the 203rd position on the United for the Victory of Serbia list in the 2022 parliamentary election, receiving an endorsement from the People's Party.[16] Election from this position was extremely improbable, and she was not elected when the list won thirty-eight seats.

Electoral record

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Local (Varvarin)

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2004 Municipality of Varvarin local election: Mayor of Varvarin (second round results)
CandidatePartyVotes%
Zoran Milenković (incumbent)Serbian Renewal Movement4,39951.86
Vojkan PavićSocialist Party of Serbia4,08448.14
Gordana ČabrićDemocratic Party of Serbia (eliminated in the first round)
other candidateseliminated in the first round
Total8,483100.00
Source: [17]

References

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  1. ^ "Regionalni vodovod čeka donatore", Glas javnosti, 18 December 2001, accessed 21 July 2022.
  2. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 July 2022.
  3. ^ ŠESTO VANREDNO ZASEDANJE, 13.07.2004., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 21 July 2022.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ЧАБРИЋ, ГОРДАНА, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-12-11. Retrieved 2022-07-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Podrška prijateljima", Glas javnosti, 6 September 2004, accessed 21 July 2022.
  7. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 May 2021.
  8. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 July 2022.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Varvarin), Volume 33 Number 6 (11 April 2016), p. 84.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Varvarin), Volume 33 Number 7 (25 April 2016), p. 90.
  11. ^ "Zoran Milenković nakon 16 godina smenjen sa mesta predsednika opštine Varvarin", Kruševac Press, 9 June 2016, accessed 21 July 2022.
  12. ^ ОДБОРНИЦИ, Archived 2020-01-21 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Varvarin, accessed 21 July 2022.
  13. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Varvarin), Volume 37 Number 19 (10 June 2020), p. 50.
  14. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Varvarin), Volume 37 Number 21 (22 June 2020), pp. 54-55.
  15. ^ "ГГ 'Наши људи' на протеклим локалним изборима освојила 5 мандата", Temnić Info, Izbori 2020, accessed 21 July 2022.
  16. ^ Додатна документа – изборне листе – 5. МАРИНИКА ТЕПИЋ – УЈЕДИЊЕНИ ЗА ПОБЕДУ СРБИЈЕ (СТРАНКА СЛОБОДЕ И ПРАВДЕ, НАРОДНА СТРАНКА, ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА, ДЗВМ – VMDK, СТРАНКА МАКЕДОНАЦА СРБИЈЕ, ПОКРЕТ СЛОБОДНИХ ГРАЂАНА, УДРУЖЕНИ СИНДИКАТИ СРБИЈЕ „СЛОГА“, ПОКРЕТ ЗА ПРЕОКРЕТ, ПОКРЕТ СЛОБОДНА СРБИЈА, ВЛАШКА СТРАНКА), Izbori 2022, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 July 2022.
  17. ^ "Podrška prijateljima", Glas javnosti, 6 September 2004, accessed 21 July 2022; "Povratak već otpisanih u predsedničke fotelje", Glas javnosti, 5 October 2004, accessed 21 July 2022; ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "REPUBLICKI ZAVOD ZA STATISTIKU - Republike Srbije". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2022-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021.