Dragan S. Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган С. Јовановић; born 28 February 1957) is a Serbian engineer, administrator, and politician. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 and was at different times the director of the TPP Nikola Tesla and TPP Kostolac energy plants. Jovanović is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS).

Early life and private career

Jovanović was born in the municipality of Obrenovac in the city of Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade and began working for Nikola Tesla in 1984.[1][2]

Politician

The Milošević Years (1992–2000)

During the 1990s, Serbian and Yugoslavian politics were dominated by the authoritarian rule of SPS leader Slobodan Milošević.

Jovanović was elected to the City Assembly of Belgrade for Obrenovac's fourth division in the May 1992 and December 1992 Serbian local elections.[3] The SPS won majority victories in both elections, and he served as a supporter of the local administration. He was not re-elected in 1996.[4]

Jovanović appeared in the fifth position on a combined list of the SPS, the Yugoslav Left (Jugoslovenska Levica, JUL), and New Democracy (Nova demokratija, ND) for the Čukarica division in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won four seats, and he was not chosen for a mandate.[5][6] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties.[7] Jovanović could have been given a mandate despite his list position, although in the event he was not.)[8]

Slobodan Milošević was defeated in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed moment in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. Jovanović ran for the Yugoslavian parliament's Chamber of Citizens in the concurrent federal assembly vote, appearing in the fifth and final position on a combined SPS–JUL list in Čukarica.[9] The list won two seats, and he was not assigned a mandate.[10][11] He was also defeated for Obrenovac's second division in the concurrent 2000 Belgrade city election.

Since 2000

Serbia's election laws were reformed in 2000, such that the entire country became a single electoral unit and all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.[12] Jovanović was given the 102nd position on the SPS's (mostly alphabetical) list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election and was chosen for a mandate when the list won twenty-two seats.[13][14] The Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) emerged as the dominant power in Serbia's coalition government after the election, and the SPS provided outside support to the administration in the assembly. Jovanović served on the committee for industry and the committee for science and technological development.[15] He was also appointed to a special committee investigating practices at Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS).[16]

Jovanović received the 105th position on the SPS list in the 2007 parliamentary election.[17] The party fell to sixteen seats, and he was not given a mandate for a second term.[18] He also appeared on the SPS's electoral lists for the Belgrade city assembly in the 2004 and 2008 local elections, though he was not included in the party's delegation on either occasion.[19][20][21]

Serbia's election laws were reformed again in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Jovanović appeared in the 148th position on the SPS's coalition list in the 2012 parliamentary election, the eighty-eighth position in 2014, and the sixty-fifth position in 2016. Election from any of these places would have been improbable, and indeed he was not elected when the coalition around the SPS won forty-four seats in 2012 and 2014 and twenty-nine in 2016.[22][23][24]

In 2017, Jovanović became interim leader of the SPS's municipal board in Obrenovac.[25]

Energy sector administrator

Jovanović was appointed as director of Nikola Tesla in February 1997 and served in this role until January 2001. He was later accused of abuse of office in the position, specifically by illegally awarding apartments in Belgrade to power plant workers.[26][27] Online accounts do not indicate how the matter was resolved. He worked in large investment projects with Nikola Tesla from 2001 to 2004 and held administrative positions at EPS after September 2004.[28]

He was appointed deputy director of Kostolac in 2006 and promoted to director in 2009.[29] In this role, he was active in negotiating a contract for large-scale investment with the Exim Bank of China.[30][31] In December 2014, he announced that Serbia and China would soon sign a deal worth more than $600 million for investment in a new coal-fired power plant.[32] He left Kostolac the following month, when he was appointed as an executive director of EPS.[33]

In January 2022, he was awarded the Đorđe Stanojević honorary certificate and medallion from Elektroprivreda Srbije.[34]

Electoral record

Local (City of Belgrade)

2000 Belgrade city election: Obrenovac Division 2
CandidateParty
Svetozar Dobrašinović (***WINNER***)Democratic Opposition of Serbia–Dr. Vojislav Koštunica (Affiliation: Christian Democratic Party of Serbia)
Dragan JovanovićSocialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left–Slobodan Milošević (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia)
Živanka LazarevićSerbian Radical Party
Dr. Marica LukićSerbian Renewal Movement
Total
Source: [35]
December 1992 Belgrade city election: Obrenovac Division 4
CandidateParty
Dragan Jovanović (***WINNER***)Socialist Party of Serbia
other candidates
Total
Source: [36]
May 1992 Belgrade city election: Obrenovac Division 4
CandidateParty
Dragan Jovanović (***WINNER***)Socialist Party of Serbia
other candidates
Total
Source: [37]

References

  1. ↑ "Dragan Jovanović direktor u Kostolcu", Danas, 9 July 2009, accessed 29 December 2022.
  2. ↑ "Nadamo se da bi Đorđe Vajfert bio zadovoljan", Danas, 18 December 2009, accessed 29 December 2022.
  3. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 38 Number 14 (17 June 1992), pp. 786-788; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 39 Number 3 (12 February 1993), pp. 39–40. Both sources seemingly have inaccurate information about Jovanović's year of birth.
  4. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 43 Volume 3 (22 February 1997), p. 1.
  5. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Чукарица), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 29 December 2022.
  6. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године (Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997.) године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  7. ↑ Guide to the Early Election, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
  8. ↑ PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 12 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Tri Vojislava, dva Vuka, a samo jedan je Slobodan!", Glas javnosti, 5 September 2000, accessed 29 December 2022.
  10. ↑ ИЗБОРИ 2000: ВЕЋЕ РЕПУБЛИКА И ВЕЋЕ ГРАЂАНА САВЕЗНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (2000), p. 49.
  11. ↑ VEĆE GRAĐANA SAVEZNE SKUPŠTINE, Archived 2003-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, Socialist Party of Serbia, 17 April 2003, accessed 29 December 2022. For this election, half the mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order and the other half at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. Jovanović could have been given a mandate despite his list position, but he was not. See Ko su poslanici, Archived 2003-02-01 at the Wayback Machine, Vreme, 28 September 2000, accessed 14 December 2021.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9. СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ - СЛОБОДАН МИЛОШЕВИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 August 2022.
  14. ↑ Д. ДИМИТРОВСКА, "Нова Скупштина комплетна", Novosti, 15 January 2004, accessed 28 December 2022.
  15. ↑ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ЈОВАНОВИЋ , ДРАГАН, Archived 2006-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 10 December 2006, accessed 29 December 2022.
  16. ↑ "Kad hoćeš nešto da zataškaš osnuj odbor", Danas, 28 November 2007, accessed 29 December 2022.
  17. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (11 Социјалистичка партија Србије), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
  18. ↑ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 28 December 2022.
  19. ↑ Jovanović was given the fortieth position in 2004 and the fifty-sixth position in 2008. See Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 24 (8 September 2004), p. 4; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 34 (29 November 2004), pp. 1-2; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 12 (30 April 2008), p. 8; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 24 (15 July 2008), pp. 1-2.
  20. ↑ In the 2004 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, with the remaining two-thirds assigned at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections Archived 2021-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  21. ↑ For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (2007) Archived 2022-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  22. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)"), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
  23. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)"), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
  24. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (3 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
  25. ↑ "Formirano privremeno rukovodstvo OO SPS Obrenovac", Lokalne Novine, 5 November 2017, accessed 29 December 2022.
  26. ↑ "Sto maraka za kvadrat stana", Glas javnosti, 18 April 2002, accessed 29 December 2022.
  27. ↑ "Delio stanove kapom i šakom", Glas javnosti, 23 May 2002, accessed 29 December 2022.
  28. ↑ "Dragan Jovanović direktor u Kostolcu", Danas, 9 July 2009, accessed 29 December 2022.
  29. ↑ "Dragan Jovanović direktor u Kostolcu", Danas, 9 July 2009, accessed 29 December 2022.
  30. ↑ "Nadamo se da bi Đorđe Vajfert bio zadovoljan", Danas, 18 December 2009, accessed 29 December 2022.
  31. ↑ "'Kostolac' na korak od kineskog kredita", Politika, 4 October 2011, accessed 29 December 2022.
  32. ↑ "China to help Serbia build 350 MW coal-fired power plant-media", Reuters, 14 December 2014, accessed 29 December 2022.
  33. ↑ "Jovanović ide. Evo ko dolazi umesto njega", Boom 93, 30 January 2005, accessed 29 December 2022.
  34. ↑ Dragan S. Jovanović - Winner of EPS Award, Elektroprivreda Srbije, 11 January 2022, accessed 29 December 2022.
  35. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 13 (15 September 2000), p. 430; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 15 (20 October 2000), p. 469-470.
  36. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 39 Number 3 (12 February 1993), pp. 39–40.
  37. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 38 Number 14 (17 June 1992), pp. 786-788.
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