Branko Popović

Branko Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Поповић; born 1975) is a medical doctor and politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2017 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Popović was born in Nova Varoš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Educated in Belgrade, he later returned to his home city to work as a pneumophtisiologist. He is currently the director of the Health Center in Nova Varoš.[1]

Political career

Popović was a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) in the early 2000s. He appeared in the 207th position (out of 248) on the combined electoral list of the SPO and New Serbia in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won twenty-two mandates, and Popović was not selected for a mandate. (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Popović could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position, but, as events transpired, he was not.)[2] He also appeared on the SPO's list in the 2007 election, when the party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.[3]

He joined the Progressive Party in 2010 and was a party representative in the Nova Varoš municipal assembly for six years before receiving a mandate in the National Assembly.[4] In 2016, he served as part of a provisional administration that was directly appointed by the Serbian government following the resignation of the incumbent mayor.[5]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Popović received the 142nd position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.[6] The list won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates; Popović was not immediately elected but was able to take a seat in the assembly on October 12, 2017, as a replacement for Branislav Blažić, who had resigned to take a government position.[7] He is currently a deputy member of the assembly's environmental protection committee and its health and family committee.[8]

References
  1. BRANKO POPOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 June 2018.
  2. 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.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српски покрет обнове - Вук Драшковић) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017. Popović received the 164th list position.
  4. "Бранко Поповић, нови посланик СНС", Варошке новине, 24 October 2017, accessed 1 June 2018.
  5. "Uvedene privremene mere u opštini Nova Varoš", Novosti, 29 February 2016, accessed 1 June 2018.
  6. 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.
  7. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 12. октобра 2017. године) Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 1 June 2018.
  8. BRANKO POPOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 1 June 2018.
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