Miroslav Španović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Шпановић; born 18 May 1949) is a politician and retired military official in Serbia. He has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2012 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).
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The PUPS contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, and Španović received a position on their combined electoral list.[2] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the national assembly. The United Pensioners subsequently formed an alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia at both the republic and the provincial level, and Španović appeared in the second position on the Socialist-led electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election.[3] He was elected when the list won nine proportional mandates. The election was won by the Democratic Party and its allies, and Španović served in opposition for the next four years.
For the 2016 provincial election, the PUPS formed a new alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party. Španović received the eighth position on the latter's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list[4] and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He was appointed as head of the assembly's security committee after the election and, in this role, took part in a number of nationally televised forums on security issues.[5]
In 2019, Španović called for a public discussion on the best system for adjusting pensions to account for inflation and wage growth. He said that he did not necessarily oppose the "Swiss model" approach favoured by Siniša Mali but wanted to ensure a proper consideration of the issue.[6]
He was given the seventh position on the Progressive Party's coalition list in the 2020 provincial election[7] and was elected to a third term when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates. He is now a member of the committee on security and the committee on national equality.[8]
Španović is the leader of the PUPS provincial board in Vojvodina.[9]
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- ^ Miroslav Španović, MA, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina], accessed 16 January 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) - Др Небојша Човић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 16 January 2021. Śpanović received the 245th position on the list, which was largely arranged in alphabetical order (the letter "Š" appears at the end of the Serbian alphabet"). Prior to a 2011 electoral reform, mandates in Serbian elections were awarded at the discretion of successful parties or coalitions, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Španović could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position on the list, although the fact that the list did not win any mandates meant that the question was moot.
- ^ Изборна листа 8 - ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ-СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС), СОЦИЈАЛДЕМОКРАТСКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СДП Србије), Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 16 January 2021.
- ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
- ^ See for instance "Шпановић и Балабан у Суочавању", Novosti, 27 November 2019, accessed 16 January 2021; and "Španović i Slepčev u Suočavanju", Novosti, 27 May 2020, accessed 16 January 2021.
- ^ "ПУПС Пензије да се дотирају из профита компанија", Dnevnik, 6 June 2019, accessed 16 January 2021.
- ^ Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021.
- ^ Miroslav Španović, MA, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina], accessed 16 January 2021.
- ^ "Krkobabić: Solidarnost je novi slogan PUPS-a", Danas, 10 December 2018, accessed 16 January 2021.