Momo Čolaković (Serbian Cyrillic: Момо Чолаковић; born 8 May 1940) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 to 2020 and has been a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2020. Čolaković is a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).
Momo Čolaković | |
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Момо Чолаковић | |
| President of the Assembly of Vojvodina | |
| In office 6 November 2023 – 25 April 2024 | |
| Preceded by | István Pásztor |
| Succeeded by | Bálint Juhász |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 May 1940 Ponikvice (Nikšić), Zeta Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (2005–) |
| Other political affiliations | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1957–1990) |
Early life and career
editČolaković was born in the village of Ponikvice, near Nikšić, which at the time was located in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia's Zeta Banovina but which was previously and subsequently part of Montenegro. His family moved to Vrbas in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia, when Yugoslavia was reconstructed in 1945. He graduated from the Economic and Commercial School in Novi Sad and became involved in the labour movement, serving with the union of the Vrbas municipality for twenty years. From 1990 to 1998, he was president of the Council of Independent Trade Unions of Yugoslavia. An economist by profession, he worked at the Vojvođanska banka from 1993 until his retirement in 2004.[1][2] He now lives in Novi Sad.[3]
Čolaković noted in 2018 that several members of his family had been deputies in the previous century, beginning with his great-grandfather Risto Čolaković, who was a member of the parliament of Montenegro prior to the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918.[4]
Politician
editČolaković joined the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1957 and remained a party member until its disintegration in 1990. He was the president of the League of Independent Trade Unions of Yugoslavia in 1990.[5] He sought election to the Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's Chamber of Citizens in the May 1992 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, running in Serbia as a candidate on the electoral list of the Yugoslavian Electoral Coalition (JIK). The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win any mandates.[6] He was not affiliated with any party after this time until becoming a founding member of the PUPS in 2005.[7]
The PUPS contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, and Čolaković received the third position on their combined list.[8] This list, too, did not cross the electoral threshold.
Member of the National Assembly
editThe PUPS joined an electoral alliance led by the Socialist Party of Serbia for the 2008 parliamentary election. Čolaković was given the thirteenth position on the Socialist list and was chosen as part of the PUPS parliamentary delegation when the alliance won twenty mandates.[9] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Čolaković did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list position.)[10][11] The results of the election were initially inconclusive, but the Socialists and their allies eventually formed a new coalition government with the For a European Serbia alliance. Čolaković led the PUPS assembly group in the parliament that followed.[12]
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Čolaković was re-elected to the assembly in the elections of 2012 and 2014, in each case after receiving the eleventh position on the Socialist list (which won forty-four mandates each time).[13] After the 2012 election, a new coalition government was formed by the Socialists, the Serbian Progressive Party, and other parties. The PUPS continued in government from 2012 to 2014 and provided parliamentary support to the government from 2014 to 2016.
The PUPS formed a new alliance with the Progressive Party for the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. Čolaković received the seventy-fourth position on the Progressive list and was re-elected when it won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[14] During the 2016–20 assembly, he was member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and community issues; a deputy member of the European integration committee and the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; the head of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, and Russia.[15]
Čolaković stated in 2019 that he opposed the legal recognition of same-sex marriage. He also said that he was in favour of compulsory military service.[16]
Member of the Assembly of Vojvodina
editČolaković did not seek re-election to the national assembly in 2020. He instead received the twenty-fourth position on the Progressive-led electoral list for the Vojvodina assembly in the that year's provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six out of 120 mandates.[17] He is now a member of the provincial assembly's committee on economy and its committee on budget and finance.[18]
References
edit- ^ Momo Čolaković: Biografija, www.istinomer.rs, accessed 4 April 2017.
- ^ MOMO ČOLAKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 March 2021.
- ^ Momo Čolaković, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 March 2021.
- ^ Mirjana Čekerevac, "Čolakovići poslanici čitav vek", Politika, 2 January 2018, accessed 6 March 2021.
- ^ "Predsednik Momo Čolaković". Borba (in Serbo-Croatian). 4 June 1990. p. 4.
- ^ Čolaković received the fourth position on the party's list. See Službeni glasnik, Republic of Serbia, Volume 58 Number 33 (27 May 1992), p . 1; ИЗБОРИ '92: КОНАЧНИ РЕЗУЛТАТИ, Republic of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1992), p. 8.
- ^ MOMO ČOLAKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 March 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) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС)) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 23 August 2017.
- ^ "Petitions and Proposals Committee Chairman and PUPS Parliamentary Group Head Visit Novi Sad Civic Association", National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 March 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)") Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)") Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Momo Colakovic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
- ^ J. Tomić, "Čolaković: Istopolni brakovi nisu ni za razgovor kamoli za priznanje", Danas, 10 February 2019, accessed 6 March 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.
- ^ Momo Čolaković, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 March 2021.