Konstantin Arsenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин Арсеновић; 1940–January 31, 2017) was a politician and military official in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 until his death in 2017. Arsenović was a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) and a deputy speaker of the assembly.

Early life and military career

Arsenović was born in 1940 in the village of Gornje Košlje in the Ljubovija municipality, at the time part of the Drina Banovina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia but formerly and subsequently a part of Serbia. His parliamentary biography indicates that, after attending technical high school, he attended Yugoslavia's Military Technical Academy, High Military Technical Academy, Command and Staff School, and National Defence School. He served in the Yugoslav People's Army and the successor Armed Forces of Yugoslavia from 1961 to 2000, overseeing a variety of responsibilities.[1]

On September 5, 1996, Arsenović was appointed by Yugoslav president Zoran Lilić as assistant head of the Yugoslav Army General Staff responsible for reinforcements.[2] On December 25, 1998, he was appointed as an advisor to Yugoslav minister of defense Pavle Bulatović.[3] He retired in 2000 with the rank of lieutenant colonel general.[4]

Political career

Arsenović was a founding member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia in 2005. This party contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, and Arsenović received the seventh position on their combined electoral list.[5] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

The United Pensioners later joined an electoral alliance led by the Socialist Party of Serbia for the 2008 parliamentary election. Arsenović was given the seventh position on the alliance's list and entered the assembly as part of the PUPS delegation after the alliance won twenty mandates.[6] (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.[7] Arsenović did not automatically receive a parliamentary mandate by virtue of his position on the list, though he was in fact awarded a mandate and served as part of a five-member United Pensioners delegation for the next four years.) The United Pensioners were included in Mirko Cvetković's administration, and Arsenović served as a parliamentary supporter of the government.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The United Pensioners' alliance with the Socialist Party continued into the 2012 and 2014 elections; Arsenović was returned to parliament on both occasions, in each case after receiving the sixth position on the alliance's electoral list.[8][9] PUPS remained part of the government from 2012 to 2014 and provided external support to Aleksandar Vučić's administration from 2014 to 2016. Arsenović was named as a deputy speaker of the assembly following the 2012 election, a position that he retained for all sittings of the assembly until his death.[10]

In 2011, Arsenović offered support to an idea proposed by the Serbian Progressive Party that Serbia reinstate a conscript army. He argued that Serbia did not have an army capable of carrying out the fundamental tasks required of it and offered his view that conscription should never have been abolished. He further argued that most people in Serbia held the same belief and would willingly send their children to military service.[11]

For the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, the United Pensioners joined the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Progressive Party. Arsenović received the sixty-first position on their list and was declared re-elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[12] PUPS returned to direct participation in government after the election. In this sitting of the assembly, Arsenović was a member of the committee of the rights of the child and a member of the friendship groups for Belarus, Montenegro, and Spain.[13]

Death

Arsenović died on January 31, 2017, aged seventy-six.[14]

References

  1. ↑ Konstantin Arsenovic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "SUPREME DEFENCE COUNCIL MEETS AND APPOINTS ARMY COMMANDERS," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service, Central Europe & Balkans, 7 September 1996 (Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1418 gmt 5 Sep 96).
  3. ↑ "Yugoslav state news agency details army promotions," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Political - Europe, 26 December 1998 (Source: text of report by the Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug).
  4. ↑ Konstantin Arsenovic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) - Др Небојша Човић) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС)) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)") Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  9. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)") Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  10. ↑ Konstantin Arsenovic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
  11. ↑ "Serbian parties, analysts view idea to reinstate conscript army," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 13 November 2011 (Source: text of report by Serbian newspaper Danas website on 10 November).
  12. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  13. ↑ Konstantin Arsenovic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
  14. ↑ Преминуо Константин Арсеновић, Radio Television of Serbia, 31 January 2017.
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