Svetozar Gavrilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Гавриловић; born 13 July 1953) is a medical doctor and politician in Serbia. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 1997 to 2001 and was the mayor of Pančevo from 2012 to 2013. Gavrilović is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS).
Early life and private career edit
Gavrilović was born in the village of Miroč in Majdanpek, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He moved to Pančevo in 1964 and graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine in 1977. Gavrilović began working at the Pančevo General Hospital in 1980, completed his specialization in internal medicine in 1986, and he completed further specialization in gastroenterology with hepatology in 1996. He became vice-president of the general hospital for internal medicine in 2010.[1]
Politician edit
Member of the National Assembly (1997–2001) edit
Gavrilović joined the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1995.[2] He appeared in the third position on the party's electoral list for the Pančevo division in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election and was given a mandate when the list won four seats.[3][4][5] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of sponsoring parties or coalitions. Gavrilović was not automatically elected by virtue of his list position, but he was awarded a mandate all the same.)[6] The SPS and its allies won a plurality victory overall, and the party remained the dominant presence in Serbia's coalition government after the election; Gavrilović served as a supporter of the administration. He was not a candidate in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, and his term ended in January 2001.
Local and provincial politics (2008–16) edit
Gavrilović appeared in the eleventh position on the SPS's list for the Pančevo city assembly in the 2008 Serbian local elections.[7] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.[8]
He sought election to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2012 provincial election, running in Pančevo's first division, and was narrowly defeated in the second round of voting. He also received the lead position on the party's list for Pančevo in the 2012 local elections and was elected when the list won twelve mandates, finishing in third place overall.[9][10] The local election did not produce a clear winner, and a coalition government was eventually formed by the SPS, the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS), and other parties. Gavrilović was chosen as mayor.[11] He served until May 2013, when he resigned, citing health issues.[12]
Gavrilović later appeared in the twenty-eighth position on the SPS's list for Pančevo in the 2016 Serbian local elections.[13] Election from this position was unlikely, and he was not elected when the list won only six seats.[14]
Electoral record edit
Provincial (Vojvodina) edit
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Zoran Jovanović | Choice for a Better Vojvodina–Bojan Pajtic (Affiliation: Democratic Party) | 2,874 | 17.11 | 6,844 | 50.28 | |
| Svetozar Gavrilović | Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS), United Serbia (JS), Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDP Serbia) (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia) | 2,903 | 17.28 | 6,767 | 49.72 | |
| Pavle Radanov | Let's Get Vojvodina Moving–Tomislav Nikolić (Serbian Progressive Party, New Serbia, Movement of Socialists, Strength of Serbia Movement) (Affiliation: Serbian Progressive Party) | 2,778 | 16.53 | |||
| Predrag Stojadinov | League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak | 2,332 | 13.88 | |||
| Petar Jojić | Serbian Radical Party | 1,685 | 10.03 | |||
| Ljubisa Kesić | U-Turn | 1,474 | 8.77 | |||
| Mileta Popović | Democratic Party of Serbia | 1,470 | 8.75 | |||
| Suzana Jovanović | Saša Pavlov–United for Pančevo–United Regions of Serbia | 1,286 | 7.65 | |||
| Total | 16,802 | 100.00 | 13,611 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: [15] | ||||||
References edit
- ^ ГРАДОНАЧЕЛНИК, Archived 2013-01-18 at the Wayback Machine, City of Pančevo, accessed 2 July 2022.
- ^ ГРАДОНАЧЕЛНИК, Archived 2013-01-18 at the Wayback Machine, City of Pančevo, accessed 2 July 2022.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 Панчево), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 9 September 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године (Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997.) године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 2 July 2022.
- ^ Guide to the Early Election, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Pančevo), Volume 15 Number 8 (29 April 2008), p. 200.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Pančevo), Volume 15 Number 10 (12 May 2008), p. 232.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 5 Number 11 (25 April 2012), p. 19.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 5 Number 12 (7 May 2012), p. 2.
- ^ "Nova vlast u Pančevu", B92, 7 July 2012, accessed 29 June 2022.
- ^ "Gradonačelnik Pančeva podneo ostavku", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 21 May 2013, accessed 29 June 2022. See also M. Šašić, "Političko nadigravanje socijalista i naprednjaka", Politika, 15 October 2012, accessed 2 July 2022.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 9 Number 8 (13 April 2016), p. 7.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 9 Number 10 (25 April 2016), p. 17.
- ^ Резултати избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине по већинском изборном систему (39 Панчево I) (2012), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 April 2018.