Ljiljana Mihajlović

Ljiljana Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Михајловић; born 1965), formerly known as Ljiljana Mijoković, is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.

Early life and private career

Mihajlović was born in Zagreb in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. An economist, she left Croatia at the start of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991 and moved to Belgrade. She is now based in Zemun, one of Belgrade's constituent municipalities.[1]

Mihajlović joined the Radical Party in 1993 and soon became active in the party at a high level. She was chief of staff for party leader Vojislav Šešelj from 1996 until 2002, when Šešelj went to The Hague to face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Following his departure, she played the same role for deputy leader Tomislav Nikolić.[2]

She is married to Ognjen Mihajlović, who himself served as a Radical Party deputy in the National Assembly from 2007 to 2012.[3]

Political career

Mihajlović received the 189th position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election and the twenty-eighth position in the 2008 election.[4][5] She was not selected on either occasion as part of the party's 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 mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Although the Radical Party won seventy-eight mandates in the 2008 election, Mihajlović did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of her list position and was ultimately not chosen.)[6]

The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, when many prominent members joining the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Mihajlović remained with the Radicals.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mihajlović received the ninth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was promoted to the third position in 2014.[7][8] On both occasions, the party failed to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. She again received the third position on the party's list for the 2016 election and was this time elected when the party won twenty-two mandates.[9]

Mihajlović is currently a member of the committee on the [Serbian] diaspora and Serbs in the region, a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Armenia, Belarus, and China.[10]

References
  1. LjILjANA MIHAJLOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 December 2017.
  2. "Lepša strana politike", Blic, 14 February 2004, accessed 8 December 2017.
  3. See Tatjana Tagirov, "Anatomija ljudske sramote", Vreme, 2 April 2015, accessed 9 December 2017, which details a controversy involving their ownership of an apartment in Zemun.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ) Archived 2018-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  6. 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.
  7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. LjILjANA MIHAJLOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 December 2017.
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