Jovan Nešović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Нешовић; born 5 May 1970) is a Serbian politician and administrator. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2012 as a member of G17 Plus and has held high local office in Kraljevo.

Private career

Nešović holds a master's degree in the technical sciences and has worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kraljevo.[1] He was listed as deputy director of the public energy company "Toplana" in 2019.[2]

Politician

City Manager

Nešović received the lead position on G17 Plus's electoral list for the Kraljevo city assembly in the off-year 2003 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won nine seats.[3][4][5] G17 Plus participated in a local coalition government after the election, and Nešović was appointed to the role of city manager.[6]

He appeared in the 152nd position on G17 Plus's list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, held one month after the municipal vote.[7] The list won thirty-four seats, and he was not chosen for a mandate. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Nešović's place on the list had no formal bearing on his chances for election.)[8] In March 2004, he was elected to the G17 Plus presidency.[9]

In 2006, local representatives of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) accused Nešović of being in a conflict of interest by virtue of being on the management board of the privatized Wagon Factory while serving as city manager. Nešović denied the accusation, saying that he had "frozen" his membership on the board.[10]

Nešović was dismissed as city manager in early 2007, against the backdrop of serious divisions between G17 Plus and New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS) in Kraljevo's coalition government.[11] He subsequently accused the city's mayor, Miloš Babić, of misleading the assembly over funding for road construction and called on him to resign.[12]

Parliamentarian

Nešović received the 161st position on G17 Plus's list in the 2007 parliamentary election.[13] The list won nineteen seats, and he was not initially included in his party's delegation. He was, however, awarded a mandate on 25 May 2007 as the replacement for another G17 Plus member.[14] G17 Plus was part of Serbia's coalition government during this time, along with the DS and the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS), and Nešović served as a supporter of the administration. He was a member of the committee for traffic and communications and of the committee for local self-government.[15]

The DS–DSS alliance broke down in early 2008, and a new parliamentary election was called for May of that year. G17 Plus contested the election as part of the For a European Serbia (Za evropsku Srbiju, ZES) alliance led by the DS; Nešović was given the 147th position on the alliance's list and received a new mandate when the list won a plurality victory with 102 out of 250 seats.[16][17] The overall results of the election were inconclusive, but ZES eventually formed a new government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and Nešović continued to support the administration. In his second term, he was the chair of the committee for urban planning, a member of the transport and communications committee and the committee for relations with Serbs outside Serbia, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Greece, Montenegro, and Russia.[18]

He also led the ZES list for Kraljevo in the 2008 local elections, which were held concurrently with the parliamentary vote, and received a mandate after the list won a plurality victory with twenty-six out of seventy mandates.[19][20] He resigned from the city assembly on 25 February 2009.[21]

Since 2012

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. G17 Plus contested the 2012 parliamentary election at the head of the United Regions of Serbia (Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije, URS) alliance. Nešović received the twenty-ninth position on the alliance's list and was not re-elected when the list won sixteen seats.[22] He also led the URS list for the concurrent 2012 local elections in Kraljevo and won another term when the list won six mandates.[23][24]

G17 Plus formally merged into the United Regions of Serbia in 2013, and Nešović became a member of the latter party. He appeared in the forty-first position on the URS list in the 2014 parliamentary election; the list did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation.[25] The party largely became dormant after the election and dissolved in 2015.

Nešović received the fourth position on a coalition list led by the DS in the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won four mandates.[26][27] He was not a candidate in 2020.

References

  1. ↑ JOVAN NEŠOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 8 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Z. Nikolić, "Grad Kraljevo će podržati projekat 'Više zelene energije – Manje zagađenja'", Danas, 2 December 2019, accessed 8 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Ponovo predvodnik promena", kraljevo.com, 13 November 2003, accessed 8 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; p. 95.
  5. ↑ In the 2003 local elections, the first one-third of mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. 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.
  6. ↑ JOVAN NEŠOVIĆ, about.me, accessed 8 October 2022.
  7. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1. Г17 ПЛУС - МИРОЉУБ ЛАБУС), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine 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.
  9. ↑ "Labus ponovo lider", Glas javnosti, 30 March 2004, accessed 8 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Menadžer u sukobu interesa?", Glas javnosti, 28 August 2006, accessed 8 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Pare posvađale političare", Glas javnosti, 15 March 2007, accessed 8 October 2022.
  12. ↑ M. Dugalić, "Kraljevački politički orkestar", Politika, 16 March 2007, accessed 8 October 2022.
  13. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Г17 плус - Млађан Динкић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 May 2021.
  14. ↑ "Na sud, za svaku reč", Glas javnosti, 5 June 2007, accessed 8 October 2022.
  15. ↑ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: НЕШОВИЋ, ЈОВАН "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-26. Retrieved 2022-10-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 October 2022.
  16. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 ЗА ЕВРОПСКУ СРБИЈУ - БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 April 2021.
  17. ↑ R. Ognjanović, "U klupama novi poslanici", Novosti, 10 June 2008, accessed 8 October 2022.
  18. ↑ ЈОВАН НЕШОВИЋ, Archived 2011-12-31 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 October 2022.
  19. ↑ "Poznata imena sedamdeset odbornika u Skupštini grada", kraljevo.com, 6 June 2008, accessed 8 October 2022.
  20. ↑ 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. Simonović did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of leading the list.
  21. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kraljeva), Volume 42 Number 4 (10 March 2009).
  22. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 May 2021.
  23. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kraljeva), Volume 45 Number 7 (24 April 2012), p. 41.
  24. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Karljeva), Volume 45 Number 8 (7 May 2012), p. 164.
  25. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 June 2022.
  26. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kraljeva), Volume 49 Number 12 (13 April 2016), p. 12.
  27. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Kraljeva), Volume 49 Number 14 (1 May 2016), pp. 1-2.
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