Milan Švabić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Швабић; born 1951) is a Serbian politician, administrator, and entrepreneur. He is a former mayor of Aranđelovac and has served in the assemblies of Serbia and Yugoslavia. Švabić is now a member of the Aranđelovac municipal assembly, serving as an independent delegate aligned with Dveri.
Early life and career
editŠvabić was born in the village of Vrbica near Aranđelovac, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in his home community and graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1976. Švabić worked for a local branch of Jugobanka until 1982, when he began working for the company Šamot.[1]
Politician
editMayor and parliamentarian (1989–1993)
editŠvabić was elected as mayor of Aranđelovac in the 1989 Serbian local elections.[2] He was later elected to the National Assembly of Serbia for Aranđelovac in the 1990 Serbian parliamentary election as a candidate of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). The SPS won a majority victory in 1990, and he initially served as a supporter of the administration. In March 1991, he was chosen as one of the Serbian parliament's twelve delegates to the Chamber of Republics in the assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).[3] His term in the latter office ended in April 1992, when the SFRY ceased to exist.
Švabić was one of four parliamentarians who left the SPS assembly group on 1 July 1992, dissatisfied with the party's policies.[4] He later helped to form a breakaway group called the Social Democratic Party of Serbia.[5]
The 1990 Serbian parliamentary election was the last to be conducted in single-member constituency seats; all subsequent elections have been held under proportional representation. Švabić was not a candidate in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election and his term ended when the new assembly convened in early 1993. His term as mayor of Aranđelovac presumably ended in mid-1992 or early 1993.
Švabić appeared in the second position on the electoral list of Vuk Obradović's Social Democracy (SD) party for the Kragujevac division in the 1997 parliamentary election.[6] The list did not win any seats.[7][8]
Out of politics
editThe SPS dominated Serbian politics until the fall of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000. During this period, after leaving office, Švabić worked in education and operated a private business at his family's farm. He became director of the company Venčac in 2001 and later worked in a leadership role at ED Aranđelovac.[9]
Local politics in Aranđelovac (2014–present)
editŠvabić appeared in the seventh position on the electoral list of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in Aranđelovac for the 2014 local elections and was elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-seven out of forty-one seats.[10][11] He served for the term that followed and was not a candidate for re-election in 2018.
He later joined the party Healthy Serbia (ZS). In the 2022 local elections, he appeared in the lead position on a coalition ZS–Dveri list in Aranđelovac and was elected when the list won three seats.[12][13] The SNS won the election, and Švabić served in opposition.
Healthy Serbia joined the SNS's political coalition in late 2023. In November 2023, Švabić resigned from the party and said that he would continue to work with Dveri in the local assembly as an independent member.[14]
Electoral record
editNational Assembly of Serbia
edit| Candidate | Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Radovan Anić | People's Radical Party | |
| Dragan Đurović | Republican Party | |
| Milan Živković | Movement for the Protection of Human Rights in Yugoslavia | |
| Dr. Vlastimir Mirić | Democratic Party | |
| Petar Stanković | Serbian Renewal Movement | |
| Dragan Todorović | Serbian National Renewal–Citizens' Group | |
| Života Švabić | Party of the Union of Peasants of Serbia | |
| Milan Švabić (***WINNER***) | Socialist Party of Serbia | |
| Total | ||
| Source: [15] | ||
References
edit- ^ Elektrosrbija, December 2012, p. 5.
- ^ Elektrosrbija, December 2012, p. 5.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 47 Number 16 (22 March 1991), p. 501.
- ^ "Four deputies leave Socialist Party's deputies club," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service: Central Europe & Balkans, 3 July 1992 (Source: Tanjug in Serbo-Croat 1523 gmt 1 Jul 92).
- ^ "Cuvar kosovske kolevke", Naša borba, 12 July 1997, accessed 17 April 2024.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (16 Крагујевац), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.
- ^ 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, Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.
- ^ PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 23 August 2023.
- ^ Elektrosrbija, December 2012, p. 5.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 7 Number 57 (5 March 2014), p. 1.
- ^ Republika Srbija - Republički zavod za statistiku - Lokalni izbori Republika Srbija 2016. (includes local elections held in 2014); Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 7 Number 58 (28 March 2014), p. 1.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 15 Number 2 (22 March 2022), p. 12.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Aranđelovac), Volume 15 Number 3 (11 April 2022), p. 1.
- ^ "Преча част од власти", stvarnost.rs, 10 November 2023, accessed 17 April 2024.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 9. и 23. децембра 1990. године (Листе кандидата за народне посланике Народне скупштине Републике Србије, по изборним јединицама), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 February 2024; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 9. и 23. децембра 1990. године (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије 9. и 23. децембра 1990. године), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 February 2024.