Aleksandar Šešelj

Aleksandar Šešelj (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Шешељ; born 1993) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2017 to 2020 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party. He currently serves as the Deputy President of the Serbian Radical Party. Šešelj is the son of Radical Party leader and a former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Šešelj.

Aleksandar Šešelj
Member of the National Assembly
In office
21 September 2017 – 2020
Preceded byMilovan Bojić
Deputy President of the Serbian Radical Party
Personal details
Born1993
Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partySerbian Radical Party
ParentsVojislav Šešelj
Jadranka Šešelj
OccupationStudent, politician

Early life and career

Šešelj was born in Belgrade, Serbia, then part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a student at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law.[1]

Political career

Šešelj received the twenty-fifth position on the Radical Party's electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the National Assembly. He received the same position in the 2016 parliamentary election and, as the list won twenty-two mandates, was not initially elected.[3] He also received the lead position on the Radical Party's list for the Zemun municipal assembly in the 2016 local elections, which were held concurrently with the parliamentary election. The party won nine seats out of fifty-seven and formed a local coalition government with the Serbian Progressive Party, although the parties are rivals at the republic level. Šešelj was appointed to the Zemun municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) in June 2016.[4][5]

Šešelj took part in a youth delegation to China in November 2016, describing China as a "true and sincere friend" of Serbia.[6][7] He also participated in a Radical Party delegation to Crimea in March 2017 to mark the three-year anniversary of the area's de facto joining of the Russian Federation.[8] The government of Ukraine, which considers Crimea to be a part of its territory, issued a five-year travel ban to Šešelj and other members of the delegation; he responded sarcastically that it "would be a shame if no sanctions were imposed" and that the delegates were "not afraid of these sanctions."[9] During this time, he served on the presidency of the Radical Party.

Šešelj received a mandate in the National Assembly on 25 September 2017 as a replacement for Milovan Bojić, who had resigned.[10] Šešelj is currently a member of the assembly's Health and Family Committee and a deputy member of the environmental protection committee.[11] He also became a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 24 November 2017, again as a replacement for Bojić, and is a member of the PACE committee on social affairs, health, and sustainable development and an alternate member of the committee on culture, science, education, and media.[12]

He was the deputy head of Miljan Damjanović's election staff in the latter's bid for mayor of Belgrade in the 2018 city election.[13]

The Radical Party lost its representation in the national assembly in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election after falling below the electoral threshold, and Šešelj lost his seat.

References
  1. ALEKSANDAR (VOJISLAV) ŠEŠELJ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 June 2018.
  2. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
  3. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
  4. Official Gazette, City of Belgrade, 13 April 2016, p. 28; ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ, РЕПУБЛИКА СРБИЈА, РЕПУБЛИЧКИ ЗАВОД ЗА СТАТИСТИКУ, April 2016, p. 30.
  5. "Matić ponovo vodi opštinu Zemun", B92, 17 June 2016, accessed 18 June 2018.
  6. "B&R initiative strengthens ties between China and CEE countries," Foreignaffairs.co.nz, 1 December 2016.
  7. "Chongqing pivotal to 'Belt and Road' construction," China.org.cn, 7 December 2016.
  8. "Serbian Lawmaker Delegation to Visit Crimea in March - Serbian Radical Party Official," Sputnik News Service, 13 March 2017.
  9. "European lawmakers visiting Crimea say they are not afraid of Kiev’s sanctions," TASS, 20 March 2017.
  10. Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 21. септембра 2017. године) Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
  11. ALEKSANDAR SESELj, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 June 2018.
  12. Aleksandar ŠEŠELJ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 18 June 2018.
  13. "Aleksandar Šešelj: Želimo Beograd na srpski način", Radio-Television of Serbia, 9 February 2018, accessed 18 June 2018.
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