Dejan Šulkić

Dejan B. Šulkić (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Шулкић; born 22 October 1972) is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Velika Plana from 2004 to 2015 and served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020. Šulkić is a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) and currently serves as one of the party's vice-presidents.[1]

Dejan Šulkić
Mayor of Velika Plana
In office
2004–2015
Personal details
Born1972
Velika Plana, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partyDemocratic Party of Serbia
Alma materUniversity of Kragujevac

Early life and career

Šulkić was born in Velika Plana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate of the University of Kragujevac Faculty of Law.[2]

Politician

Municipal politics

Šulkić first became mayor of Velika Plana via a direct election in the 2004 Serbian local elections. He was retained in the position following the 2008 and 2012 local elections, in which mayors were indirectly elected by the municipal assemblies. His tenure in office ended in August 2015 when the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) ended its alliance with the DSS and formed a new local coalition government with the Serbian Progressive Party.[3]

Šulkić appeared in the lead position on a coalition list of the DSS, the Strength of Serbia Movement, and the Serbian Renewal Movement for the 2016 local elections in Velika Plana and was re-elected when the list won seven mandates.[4]

The DSS subsequently formed an electoral alliance called BROOM 2020. Although the alliance was listed as "BROOM 2020 - Dejan B. Šulkić" on the Velika Plana ballot in the 2020 local elections, Šulkić himself appeared in the twelfth position (out of fourteen) on the list and was not re-elected when it won three mandates.[5][6]

DSS executive member and parliamentarian

Šulkić received the 219th position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[7] The list won fifty-three mandates, and he was not included in its assembly delegation. (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.[8] Šulkić could have been selected for a mandate despite his low position on the list, although in the event he was not).

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Šulkić received the fifty-second position on the DSS's list for the 2012 parliamentary election.[9] The list won twenty-two mandates, and he was again not elected. He was chosen as president of the DSS's executive board in June 2015.[10]

The DSS contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with Dveri. Šulkić received the sixth position on their combined list and was this time elected when the list won thirteen mandates.[11] The election was won by the Progressive Party and its allies, and the DSS members served in opposition. During the 2016–20 parliament, Šulkić was a member of the assembly committee on constitutional and legislative issues and the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia.[12]

The DSS experienced a serious split in late 2016, after which Šulkić, Gorica Gajić, and Milan Lapčević were the only assembly members to remain with the party; as five members are needed to form a parliamentary group, all sat as independents.[13] Lapčević subsequently left the DSS as well.[14] In May 2017, Šulkić was chosen as one of three DSS vice-presidents.[15]

The DSS contested the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the BROOM 2020 alliance, and Šulkić appeared in the fourth position on its electoral list.[16] The list did not cross the threshold to win representation in the assembly.

References
  1. Председништво, Democratic Party of Serbia, accessed 27 January 2021.
  2. DEJAN ŠULKIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 4 July 2018.
  3. J. ILIĆ, "Šulkića srušila nova koalicija", Novosti, 26 August 2015, accessed 4 July 2018.
  4. Službeni List (Opśtina: Velika Plana, Smederevska Palanka), Volume 50 Number 13 (4 May 2016), p. 2.
  5. Službeni List (Opśtina: Velika Plana, Smederevska Palanka), Volume 54 Number 14 (10 June 2020), p. 373.
  6. Službeni List (Opśtina: Velika Plana, Smederevska Palanka), Volume 54 Number 22 (29 June 2020), p. 859.
  7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Archived 2017-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  8. 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.
  9. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  10. "Dejan Šulkić novi predsednik Izvršnog odbora DSS", Blic (Source: Beta), 17 June 2015, accessed 4 July 2018.
  11. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  12. DEJAN SULKIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 26 June 2020.
  13. M. R. Milenković, "Ujedinjenjem do veće minutaže", Danas, 7 November 2016, accessed 28 April 2017.
  14. "Poslanik Milan Lapčević napustio DSS", N1, 11 April 2018, accessed 18 April 2018.
  15. "Novi predsednik DSS je Miloš Jovanović", Danas, 28 May 2017, accessed 4 July 2018.
  16. "Ko je sve na listi „Metla 2020“ za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 14 May 2020, accessed 26 January 2021.
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