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Zvonko Obradović

Zvonko Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Звонко Обрадовић; born 17 November 1966) is a Serbian politician and administrator. He served in the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro from 2004 to 2006 as a member of G17 Plus and was the director of the Serbian Business Registers Agency from 2007 to 2019.

Early life and career edit

Obranović was born in Kraljevo, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in the community, graduated from the University of Kragujevac Faculty of Law in 1992, and passed the bar exam in 1994. He worked in the field of law 1992 to 1997.[1]

Politician edit

Obradović was an opponent of Slobodan Milošević's administration in 1990s. The opposition Together (Serbian: Zajedno) coalition won a majority victory in Kraljevo in the 1996 Serbian local elections and took office in early 1997. Obradović was appointed as president of the municipal assembly's executive board and served in this role until 2000. From 2001 to 2003, he was an expert consultant at the Steinbeis Foundation in Stuttgart, promoting the establishment of knowledge and technology transfer centers in Serbia and Germany.[2]

He was the party's candidate for mayor of Kraljevo in a special off-year election in November 2003 and finished fourth against Radoslav Jović of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO).

The following month, he appeared in the 161st position on G17 Plus's electoral list for the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] The list won thirty-four seats, and he was included in the party's delegation when the national assembly convened in January 2004.[4] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Obradović's specific list position had no bearing on his chances of election.)[5] His term in this body was brief; on 12 February 2004, he was chosen as part of G17 Plus's delegation to the federal assembly of Serbia and Montenegro and so resigned from the republican parliament.[6]

During his term in the federal parliament, Obradović served on the security services control committee and the committee for harmonizing the laws of the member states with the Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro. He was also a member of Serbia and Montenegro's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (where Serbia and Montenegro had associate member status).[7]

Jović resigned as mayor of Kraljevo in November 2005, and a by-election to choose his replacement was called for February 2006. Obradović again ran as G17 Plus's candidate and again finished in fourth place. His term in the federal assembly ended in June 2006, when Montenegro declared independence.

Obradović was a state secretary in Serbia's ministry of defence from 2006 to 2007.[8] He appeared in the 173rd position on G17 Plus's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election and was not given a new mandate when the list fell to nineteen seats.[9]

Director of the Serbian Business Registers Agency edit

Obradović was chosen as director of the Serbian Business Registers Agency (SBRA) in a public competition in 2007. Later in the same year, he announced that the agency was creating a "one-stop registration system" to streamline the process for new companies.[10] He introduced the first tourism registry in Serbia in 2010, in the form of an online database covering the country's tourism resources.[11]

In a 2014 interview, Obradović drew attention to the problem of directors leaving old companies bankrupt with dormant accounts and switching their assets to new companies. He announced a project called the "Registry of Disqualified Persons" to target this practice and urged the Serbian government to strengthen the legal framework.[12]

The SBRA was one of Serbia's best-rated agencies during Obradović's tenure as director. His term ended in March 2019.[13]

Electoral record edit

Local (Kraljevo) edit

2006 Municipality of Kraljevo local by-election: Mayor of Kraljevo
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Dr. Miloš BabićNew Serbia–Velimir Ilić14,50942.0720,06876.84
Miljko ČetrovićSerbian Radical Party5,47715.886,04823.16
Slobodan MihajlovićDemocratic Party–Boris Tadić3,65810.61
Zvonko ObradovićG17 Plus2,9478.54
Mirko VukovićSerbian Renewal Movement2,6747.75
Prof. Dr. Dragoslav KočovićSocialist Party of Serbia1,7134.97
Đorđe PavlovićStrength of Serbia Movement–Bogoljub Karić1,6224.70
Dr. Zoran MiljkovićCitizens' Group: Movement: Kraljevo Above All1,3363.87
Zoran JovanovićPeople's Party5531.60
Total34,489100.0026,116100.00
Valid votes34,48998.5126,11698.46
Invalid/blank votes5231.494091.54
Total votes35,012100.0026,525100.00
Registered voters/turnout102,15234.27102,15225.97
Source: [14]
2003 Municipality of Kraljevo local election: Mayor of Kraljevo
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Dr. Radoslav JovićSerbian Renewal Movement10,51422.3417,23058.99
Dr. Ljubiša JovaševićDemocratic Party of Serbia–People's Democratic Party–Vojislav Koštunica7,61816.1911,97841.01
Miroslav KarapandžićCitizens' Group: For Kraljevo5,54211.78
Zvonko ObradovićG17 Plus5,20411.06
Slobodan MihajlovićDemocratic Party5,19211.03
Miljko ČetrovićSerbian Radical Party4,3759.30
Sreten JovanovićSocialist Party of Serbia3,0796.54
Prof. Dr. Predrag Stojanović PeđaChristian Democratic Party of Serbia2,6075.54
Zoran JovanovićPeople's Party and "Revival of Serbia"1,7723.77
Stamenka ArsićLiberals of Serbia and Democratic Centre1,1522.45
Total47,055100.0029,208100.00
Valid votes47,05596.9629,20898.15
Invalid/blank votes1,4773.045501.85
Total votes48,532100.0029,758100.00
Registered voters/turnout101,52147.80101,52129.31
Source: [15][16]

References edit

  1. ^ "Zvonko Obradović, direktor Agencije za privredne registre Beograd - Biografija", eKapija, 26 August 2009, accessed 28 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Zvonko Obradović, direktor Agencije za privredne registre Beograd - Biografija", eKapija, 26 August 2009, accessed 28 November 2022.
  3. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1. Г17 ПЛУС - МИРОЉУБ ЛАБУС), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 28 November 2022.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Izbor poslanika u Skupštinu SCG", Glas javnosti, 12 February 2004, accessed 27 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Zvonko Obradović, direktor Agencije za privredne registre Beograd - Biografija", eKapija, 26 August 2009, accessed 28 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Zvonko Obradović, direktor Agencije za privredne registre Beograd - Biografija", eKapija, 26 August 2009, accessed 28 November 2022.
  9. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Г17 плус - Млађан Динкић), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 15 February 2021.
  10. ^ D. Spalović, "Jedan šalter za nove firme", Politika, 18 October 2007, accessed 28 November 2022.
  11. ^ "Radi registar turizma", Radio Television of Serbia, 2 January 2010, accessed 28 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Uskoro 'crna knjiga' loših direktora", Radio Television of Serbia, 7 October 2014, accessed 28 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Milan Lucić novi v. d direktora APR", Danas, 6 March 2019, accessed 28 November 2022.
  14. ^ IZBORI ZA PREDSEDNIKA OPŠTINA U KRALJEVU I BEČEJU, Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), February 2006, accessed 22 November 2022.
  15. ^ LOKALNI IZBORI U KRALJEVU I PIROTU, Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), November 2003, accessed 24 November 2022.
  16. ^ Slobodan Rajić, "Dva lekara u drugom krugu", Archived 2009-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, kraljevo.com, accessed 28 November 2022.
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