Gorica Gajić

Gorica Gajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горица Гајић; born 1 January 1958) is a politician in Serbia. She has served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia and one term in the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro as a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS). She is now a member of the municipal assembly of Svilajnac.

Private life

Gajić is a graduated economist..[1]

Politician

Member of the Federal Assembly

Gajić received the 119th position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won fifty-three mandates, and she was not selected to serve in the party's parliamentary 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 mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.[3] Gajić could have been selected to receive a mandate despite her relatively low number on the list, although in the event she was not).

By virtue of its performance in the 2003 parliamentary election, the DSS had the right to appoint twenty members to the Federal Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro in early 2004. Gajić was appointed as part of the party's delegation and served on the assembly's committee for internal economic affairs and finance.[4] The assembly ceased to exist in 2006, when Montenegro declared independence.

Member of the National Assembly

The DSS contested the Serbian parliamentary elections of 2007 and 2008 in an electoral alliance with New Serbia. Gajić was included on the party's list both times, though she was not selected for its assembly delegation on either occasion.[5]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Gajić received the twenty-fourth position on the DSS's list for the 2012 parliamentary election.[6] The party won twenty-one mandates, and she was not immediately elected. Following the resignation of candidates further up the list, however, she was able to take her seat in the assembly on 25 June 2012.[7] A new coalition government was formed after the election by the Serbian Progressive Party, the Socialist Party of Serbia, and other parties, and the DSS members served in opposition.

She was promoted to the fifteenth position on the DSS's list in the 2014 election,[8] but the party did not receive enough votes to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. She was chosen as a party vice-chair in October 2014, following Vojislav Koštunica's resignation from the party.[9]

The DSS contested the 2016 parliamentary election in alliance with Dveri. Gajić received the eighth position on their list and was elected to a second term in the assembly when the list won thirteen mandates.[10] The government was once again formed by the Progressives, the Socialists, and other parties, and the DSS again served in opposition.

The DSS experienced a serious split in late 2016, after which Gajić, Milan Lapčević, and Dejan Šulkić were the only assembly members to remain with the party; as five members are needed to form a parliamentary group, all sat as independents.[11] Lapčević subsequently left the party as well.[12] During the 2016–20 parliament, Gajić was a member of the parliamentary committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the committee on the rights of the child and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Greece, and Russia.[13]

For the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, the DSS created a new political alliance called BROOM 2020. Gajić appeared in the third position on its electoral list,[14] which did not cross the threshold to win representation in the assembly.

Gajić is a member of the DSS's executive board.[15]

Municipal politics

Gajić has served a number of terms in the Svilajnac municipal assembly. She the DSS's candidate for mayor in the 2004 Serbian local elections, in which mayors were chosen by direct election.[16] Although unsuccessful in that contest, she was subsequently chosen as the municipality's deputy mayor.[17]

Gajić appeared in the lead position on the DSS's list for Svilajnac in the 2012 Serbian local elections[18] and was re-elected when the list won three mandates.[19] She subsequently led a DSS–Dveri list in the 2016 local elections;[20] this list did not cross the threshold to win representation in the assembly.[21] She was, however, returned to the municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections on the list of a local electoral alliance called "Only Forward Svilajnac," which won two seats.[22]

Electoral record

Municipal
2004 Svilajnac mayoral election[23]
Dobrivoje Budimirović Citizen's Group: BOS 7,127 55.85
Milija Jovanović Democratic Party 1,624 12.73
Gorica Gajić Democratic Party of Serbia 1,579 12.37
Mića Nešić G17 Plus 852 6.68
Branislav Marinković Serbian Renewal Movement–Citizen's Group: PP 794 6.22
Radovan Radosavljević Strength of Serbia Movement 440 3.45
Staniša Strainović Socialist Party of Serbia 232 1.82
Ljubiša Radosavljević People's Democratic Party–DPRS 114 0.89
Total valid votes 12,762 100

References
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  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. "Izbor poslanika u Skupštinu SCG", Glas javnosti, 12 February 2004, accessed 27 January 2021.
  5. Gajić received the sixty-fourth position in 2007 and the thirty-first position in 2008. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска Странка Србије - Нова Србија - Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017.
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  9. "Umesto jednog četiri DSS?", B92, 20 October 2014, accessed 28 April 2017.
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