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Elections In Serbia
Elections in Serbia are mandated by the Constitution and legislation. The President of the Republic, National Assembly, provincial (Vojvodina) and local ( municipalities and cities) assemblies are all elective offices. Since 1990, twelve presidential, fourteen parliamentary and ten provincial elections were held. Electoral procedures Any Serbian citizen over age 18 may be a candidate in presidential, parliamentary, provincial or local elections, provided that a sufficient number of endorsements by Serbian voters is obtained beforehand. At least five days before the election, citizens are notified about the election, receive information about the day and time of the election, and the address of the polling station where they could vote. Voting takes place in polling stations in Serbia and abroad, monitored by an electoral board and observers at each station. During the election day, registered voters could vote from 07:00 ( UTC+01:00) to 20:00, though if the polling station is op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitution Of Serbia
The current Constitution of the Republic of Serbia (), also known as Mitrovdan Constitution () is the supreme and basic law of Serbia. It was adopted in 2006, replacing the previous constitution dating from 1990. History The adoption of current constitution became necessary in 2006 when Serbia restored its independence following Montenegro's secession and the subsequent dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro. The proposed text of the constitution was adopted by the National Assembly on 30 September 2006 and put on constitutional referendum which was held on 28–29 October 2006. After 53% of the electorate voted in favor of the proposed constitution, it was officially adopted on 8 November 2006. A constitutional referendum was held again on 16 January 2022, in which voters decided on changing the constitution in the provisions related to the judiciary. To bring the judiciary into line with European Union legislation, the Government of Serbia had previously proposed changing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Party Oathkeepers
The Serbian Party Oathkeepers (, abbr. SSZ), commonly known as just Oathkeepers, is a far-right political party in Serbia. Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski has been the party's president since 2021. Initially known as Serbian Council Oathkeepers, SSZ was formed in 2012 with Stefan Stamenkovski as its first president. SSZ began its actions by organising protests against the recognition of Kosovo, the Brussels Agreement, and Belgrade Pride parades. SSZ entered electoral politics in 2013 and it participated in the 2014 parliamentary election in which it did not win any seats. They later organised protests opposed to the commemoration of Srebrenica massacre and NATO; they also organised a rally in support of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić. SSZ unsuccessfully sought to win seats in the National Assembly of Serbia and City Assembly of Belgrade up to 2022, when SSZ for the first time gained parliamentary representation. It was in the parliamentary opposition to the Serb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Parties Of Minorities
An ethnic party is a political party that overtly presents itself as the champion of one ethnic group or sets of ethnic groups. Ethnic parties make such representation central to their voter mobilization strategy. An alternate designation is 'Political parties of minorities', but they should not be mistaken with regionalist or separatist parties, whose purpose is territorial autonomy. Definitions There are varied definitions of both ethnicity and ethnic parties. Ethnicity Kanchan Chandra defines ethnic identity narrowly as a subset of identity categories determined by the belief of common descent. She rejects expansive definitions of ethnic identity (such as those that include common culture, common language, common history and common territory). Jóhanna Birnir defines ethnicity as "group self-identification around a characteristic that is very difficult or even impossible to change, such as language, race, or location." Ethnic party According to Donna Lee Van Cott,''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Threshold
The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of votes that a candidate or political party requires before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can operate in various ways; for example, in party-list proportional representation systems where an electoral threshold requires that a party must receive a specified minimum percentage of votes (e.g. 5%), either nationally or in a particular electoral district, to obtain seats in the legislature. In single transferable voting, the election threshold is called the quota, and it is possible to achieve it by receiving first-choice votes alone or by a combination of first-choice votes and votes transferred from other candidates based on lower preferences. In mixed-member-proportional (MMP) systems, the election threshold determines which parties are eligible for top-up seats in the legislative chamber. Some MMP systems still allow a party to retain the seats the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Hondt Method
The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties. It belongs to the class of highest-averages methods. Compared to ideal proportional representation, the D'Hondt method reduces somewhat the political fragmentation for smaller electoral district sizes, where it favors larger political parties over small parties. The method was first described in 1792 by American Secretary of State and later President of the United States Thomas Jefferson. It was re-invented independently in 1878 by Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt, which is the reason for its two different names. Motivation Proportional representation systems aim to allocate seats to parties approximately in proportion to the number of votes received. For example, if a party wins one-third of the votes then it should gain about one-third of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minority Group
The term "minority group" has different meanings, depending on the context. According to common usage, it can be defined simply as a group in society with the least number of individuals, or less than half of a population. Usually a minority group is disempowered relative to the majority, and that characteristic lends itself to different applications of the term minority. In terms of sociology, economics, and politics, a demographic that takes up the smallest fraction of the population is not necessarily labelled the "minority" if it wields dominant power. In the academic context, the terms "minority" and "majority" are used in terms of hierarchical power structures. For example, in South Africa, during Apartheid, white Europeans held virtually all social, economic, and political power over black Africans. For this reason, black Africans are the "minority group", despite the fact that they outnumber white Europeans in South Africa. This is why academics more frequently use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proportional Representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) among voters. The aim of such systems is that all votes cast contribute to the result so that each representative in an assembly is mandated by a roughly equal number of voters, and therefore all votes have equal weight. Under other election systems, a bare Plurality (voting), plurality or a scant majority in a district are all that are used to elect a member or group of members. PR systems provide balanced representation to different factions, usually defined by parties, reflecting how votes were cast. Where only a choice of parties is allowed, the seats are allocated to parties in proportion to the vote tally or ''vote share'' each party receives. Exact proportionality is never achieved under PR systems, except by chance. The use of elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closed-list
Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some influence, that would be called an open list. Closed list systems are still commonly used in party-list proportional representation, and most mixed electoral systems also use closed lists in their party list component. Many countries, however have changed their electoral systems to use open lists to incorporate personalised representation to their proportional systems. In closed list systems, each political party has pre-decided who will receive the seats allocated to that party in the elections, so that the candidates positioned highest on this list tend to always get a seat in the parliament while the candidates positioned very low on the closed list will not. However, the candidates "at the water mark" of a given party are in the positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miša Vacić
Miša Vacić (; born 5 June 1985) is a Serbian politician who is currently serving as the president of the Serbian Right, a far-right Serbian nationalist political party. Early life He was born in 1985 in Belgrade. When he was 16, he moved with his parents to Germany. He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law but never graduated. He returned to Serbia in 2004 because, according to him, "he loves his country" and that "every injustice done to the Serbs really hurts him". Political career Upon his return to Serbia, Vacić became active in the ultra-nationalist 1389 Movement, where he first worked as a spokesman, and then in 2008 got expelled from the movement when he formed a new movement SNP 1389. As part of the SNP 1389 movement, he was arrested in September 2008, when, despite the ban on gatherings due to the ban on the Pride Parade, he was among the members of the movement who gathered at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. The media reported that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Right
The Serbian Right (, abbr. SD) is a far-right political party in Serbia. The party was founded in 2018 by Miša Vacić. The party has been accused of being a satellite of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). History Serbian Right was founded in January 2018. Miša Vacić, a former spokesman of the 1389 Movement was elected first president of the party, and former parliamentarian Saša Dujović was chosen as its deputy president. The congress was attended by 150 delegates. Among the guests at this ceremony were Milenko Jovanov, vice-president of the SNS Main Board, Branislav Puhalo, former security chief of Ratko Mladić, as well as singer Marko Bulat. Miša Vacić stated that the party was founded to help Serbia and its institutions both in resolving the issue of Kosovo, and in everything that is important for the survival of the Serbs and that the Serbian Right will support the initiative of the President Aleksandar Vučić to open a dialogue on the status of Koso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branka Stamenković
Branka Stamenković ( sr-Cyrl, Бранка Стаменковић; born 1968) is a Serbian politician. She served in the Serbian national assembly from 2016 to 2020 as a member of Enough Is Enough (DJB), which she led on an interim basis from November 2018 to October 2019. She was later the candidate of the DJB-led '' Sovereignists'' coalition in the 2022 Serbian presidential election. Early life and career Stamenković was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a professional translator in the fields of popular psychology and astrology and has herself worked as an astrologer. Her official biography indicates that she studied at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Some aspects of her academic record have been questioned, including her claim that she took post-graduate studies at the latter institution. After a traumatic expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sovereignists (Serbia)
The Sovereignists ( sr-cyrl, Суверенисти, Suverenisti) were a right-wing populist political coalition in Serbia that participated in the 2022 general election. Initially formed as an agreement between the Enough is Enough (DJB) and Healthy Serbia (ZS) political parties, it was transformed into a political coalition in January 2022. In the 2022 general election, Branka Stamenković was its presidential candidate. The coalition failed to cross the 3 percent threshold and won no seats in the National Assembly. History Formation and early history During a press conference on 30 November 2021, Saša Radulović, the leader of the Enough is Enough (DJB) political party, announced the formation the "Sovereignists"; initially it was a political agreement between DJB and Healthy Serbia (ZS). DJB had previously used the "Sovereignists" label in the 2020 parliamentary election. The agreement was mainly formed to lower the potential electoral fraud for the January 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
