Ivan Kostić (Serbian politician)

Ivan Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Костић; born September 15, 1975) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the right-wing Dveri party.

Early life and career

Kostić was born in Vrbas, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Subotica in 1994, received an economics degree in 2002, and received a master's degree in agriculture in 2014. Kostić took part in regular military service in the Serbian Armed Forces from 2002 to 2003, has been active with several Eastern Orthodox Christian organizations, and has operated his own business since 2008.[1]

Politician

Kostić became active with Dveri in 2002 and has been its coordinator in Vojvodina since it began operating as a political party. He led Dveri's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election[2] and a combined Dveri–Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) list in the 2016 provincial election.[3] In both instances, the list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the provincial assembly.

He received the fourteenth position on Dveri's list for the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election[4] and the tenth position in 2014.[5] On both of these occasions, too, the party list failed to clear the electoral threshold. A combined Dveri–DSS list did, however, win thirteen seats in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, which was held concurrently with the Vojvodina provincial election. Kostić, who received the thirteenth position on the list, was accordingly elected to the assembly.[6] He currently sits as an opposition member.

Kostić was chosen as chair of the parliamentary committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region in July 2016, after being nominated by the governing Serbian Progressive Party.[7][8] In this capacity, he has worked with Serbian community organizations in neighbouring countries,[9] sought to initiate a public discussion on the situation of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina,[10] and helped to organize events commemorating the Serb, Jewish, and Roma victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.[11]

In addition to chairing the diaspora committee, Kostić is also a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the committee on agriculture, forestry, and water management; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Argentina, Greece, Israel, Montenegro, Romania, and Russia.[12]

References
  1. IVAN KOSTIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 October 2017.
  2. Кандидати за посланике: "ДВЕРИ ЗА СРПСКУ ВОЈВОДИНУ" (2012), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 12 July 2017.
  3. ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА ЗА ИЗБОРЕ ПОСЛАНИКА У СКУПШТИНУ АУТОНОМНЕ ПОКРАЈИНЕ ВОЈВОДИНЕ: ДВЕРИ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ – САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ – БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ (2016), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 12 July 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДВЕРИ ЗА ЖИВОТ СРБИЈЕ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 October 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДВЕРИ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 October 2017.
  6. 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.
  7. "Mr Ivan Kostić: Očekujem konstruktivan i efikasan rad Odbora za dijasporu i Srbe u regionu", Beta, 7 July 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  8. "Poslanik Dveri na čelu skupštinskog Odbora za dijasporu", Blic (Sources: Beta, Tanjug), 7 July 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  9. "Osnivanje Nacionalnog saveta Srba u Sloveniji 1. oktobra", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 8 September 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  10. "Kostić: Organizovaćemo debatu o položaju Srba u BiH", Blic, 3 September 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
  11. Sixth Sitting of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, National Assembly of Serbia, 19 April 2017, accessed 5 October 2017.
  12. IVAN MA KOSTIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 October 2017.
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