Slavoljub Mitov

Slavoljub Mitov (Serbian Cyrillic: Славољуб Митов; born 11 November 1961) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia for most of the period from 2007 to 2012 as a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) and is now a member of the breakaway Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS).

Early life and private career

Mitov was born in Vlasotince, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He has worked in the geriatrics department of the Leskovac General Hospital.[1]

Political career

Mitov joined the DS in 1996. He became vice-president of the party's Vlasotince municipal board in 1997, president of the party's Vlasotince executive board in 2002, and president of the local party organization in 2003. He has served several terms in the Vlasotince municipal assembly.[2]

He received the 158th position (out of 250) on the DS's electoral list for the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] The party won sixty-four seats. Mitov was not initially included in the party's assembly delegation but received a mandate on 22 May 2007 as the replacement for another DS member who had resigned.[4] (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 parties to distribute their mandates out of numerical order. Mitov's low position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – had no bearing on whether or when he received a mandate.)[5] The DS formed an unstable coalition government with the rival Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) after the 2007 election, and Mitov served in parliament as a supporter of the ministry.

The DS–DSS alliance fell apart in early 2008, and new elections were called. Mitov received the 137th position on the DS's For a European Serbia list, which won 102 mandates. He was once again not initially selected for the party's assembly delegation but received a mandate on 16 July 2008 as the replacement for another party member.[6] Following extended negotiations, For a European Serbia formed a new coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia; Mitov once again served on the government side for the next four years.[7]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mitov received the 152nd position on the DS's Choice for a Better Life list and, as the list won sixty-seven mandates, was not re-elected.[8]

The DS experienced a serious split in early 2014, with former leader Boris Tadić setting up a new breakaway group that was originally called the New Democratic Party. This party contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Mitov sided with Tadić in the split – bringing most of the Vlasotince party organization with him[9] – and received the thirty-second position on the new coalition list; he missed re-election when the list won eighteen seats.[10] The New Democratic Party re-constituted itself as the Social Democratic Party later in the year.

The SDS contested the 2016 parliamentary election in an alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. Mitov received the thirty-seventh position on the list and was not elected when the list won thirteen mandates.[11] He continues to lead the SDS group in the Vlasotince municipal assembly.[12]

References

1. SLAVOLJUB MITOV, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 October 2018.
2. SLAVOLJUB MITOV, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 October 2018.
3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка - Борис Тадић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.
4. Информације о одржаним седницама 2007. године (22. мај 2007. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 16 October 2018.
5. 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.
6. Информације о одржаним седницама 2008. године (16. јул 2008. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 16 October 2018.
7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ЗА ЕВРОПСКУ СРБИЈУ - БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 16 October 2018.
8. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИЗБОР ЗА БОЉИ ЖИВОТ- БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
9. "Vlasotinačke demokrate kod Tadića", Blic, 4 February 2014, accessed 16 October 2018.
10. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (БОРИС ТАДИЋ - Нова демократска странка - Зелени, ЛСВ - Ненад Чанак, Заједно за Србију, VMDK, Заједно за Војводину, Демократска левица Рома), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 April 2017.
11. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
12. Odbornici po odborničkim grupama, http://www.vlasotince.org.rs, accessed 16 October 2018.