Dejan Mikavica

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Dejan Mikavica (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Микавица; born 12 August 1964) is a former politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2007 as a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Sribje, DSS).

Early life and career[]

Mikavica attended primary school in the Detelinara area of Novi Sad and finished high school in Karlovac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia. He received a bachelor's degree from the Department of History at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Philosophy, earned a master's degree at the University of Belgrade, and completed his Ph.D. at Novi Sad, where he later worked as an assistant professor.[1]

Politician[]

In 2000, the DSS participated in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milošević and his allies. The DOS won landslide victories at several levels of government over the course of the year, including in the election for the Novi Sad city assembly in the 2000 Serbian local elections. The DSS was initially part of the city's government, but it moved into opposition in mid-2001.

Soon after the DSS left the Novi Sad government, Mikavica became chair of the party's board in the city. In this role, he aligned himself with national-conservative groups and emerged as a vocal opponent of the remaining parties in the DOS administration. Some DSS members, including Dragan Maršićanin, were critical of his leadership.[2]

Mikavica appeared in the twenty-third position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election and was awarded a mandate when the list won fifty-three seats.[3] (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. Mikavica's position on the list had no specific bearing on whether he received a mandate.)[4]

The DSS emerged as the dominant party in Serbia's coalition government after the election, and Mikavica served as a supporter of the administration. He was a member of the committee on constitutional affairs and the committee on European integration.[5] During this time, he was also chair of the management board of Srbijagas and advisor to the general director of SPC Vojvodina.[6]

He appeared in the second position on the DSS's list for the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2004 provincial election; the list won four mandates, although he did not take a seat in the assembly afterwards.[7][8] He was also the DSS's candidate for mayor of Novi Sad in the concurrent 2004 Serbian local elections, placing fifth in the first round against Serbian Radical Party candidate Maja Gojković. Over the objections of the DSS leadership, he endorsed Gojković in the second round and, after her narrow victory, brought the DSS into a coalition with the Radical Party at the city level. The DSS subsequently dissolved its Novi Sad board; notwithstanding this, the party's delegates in the city assembly maintained their alliance with the Radicals.[9][10]

On 3 September 2006, Mikavica was involved in a traffic accident that caused serious injuries to a pedestrian. He was later found guilty of causing the accident by running a red light, a verdict that was upheld on appeal. Mikavica denied the charge. During the legal proceedings around this case, it was discovered that he had received free use of SPC Vojvodina cars for private purposes and was driving such a car when the accident occurred.[11] He resigned from his position as advisor to the general director of SPC Vojvodina in November 2006.[12]

Mikavica was not a candidate in the 2007 parliamentary election and was expelled from the DSS later in the year.[13] In 2009, he joined the Serbian Progressive Party.[14]

Electoral record[]

City of Novi Sad[]

2004 City of Novi Sad local election
Mayor of Novi Sad - First and Second Rounds
Maja Gojković Serbian Radical Party 44,013 42.65 60,347 50.47
Borislav Novaković (incumbent) Democratic Party 34,300 33.24 59,224 49.53
Branislav Pomoriški Together for Vojvodina 8,450 8.19
Đorđe Bašić Strength of Serbia Movement 5,243 5.08
Dejan Mikavica Democratic Party of Serbia 3,942 3.82
Miodrag Isakov Serbian Renewal Movement–Reformists of Vojvodina 3,556 3.45
Miloš Tomić G17 Plus 2,171 2.10
Branislav Švonja Community of Serbs of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina 894 0.87
Zoran Stojanović New Serbia 628 0.61
Total valid votes 103,197 100 119,571 100
Sources: Nužda demokratskog zagrljaja, Vreme, 23 September 2004, accessed 17 July 2021; Lokalni Izbori u Srbiji 2004: Procena rezultata glasanja za gradonačelnika Novog Sada, Archived 2004-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy, 3 November 2004, accessed 17 July 2021.

References[]

  1. ^ Pregled predloga kandidata za gradonačelnika Novog Sada, Archived 2004-09-16 at the Wayback Machine, City Electoral Commission of Novi Sad, 16 September 2004, accessed 18 July 2021.
  2. ^ Dragan Gmizić, "Toma Zlo, Rade Tenkista i ostali...", Vreme, 15 February 2007, accessed 20 July 2021.
  3. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 15 February 2021.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ МИКАВИЦА, ДЕЈАН, Archived 2007-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 7 January 2007, accessed 20 July 2021.
  6. ^ Dragan Gmizić, "Toma Zlo, Rade Tenkista i ostali...", Vreme, 15 February 2007, accessed 20 July 2021.
  7. ^ РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОРЕ ЗА ПОСЛАНИКЕ У СКУПШТИНУ АУТОНОМНЕ ПОКРАЈИНЕ ВОЈВОДИНЕ, 19. СЕПТЕМБРА 2004. ГОДИНЕ, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
  8. ^ Convocation 2004 - 2008, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 20 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Bliski mu radikali, ljut na Kasu i Čanka", Glas javnosti, 24 September 2004, accessed 20 July 2021.
  10. ^ Dragan Gmizić, "Toma Zlo, Rade Tenkista i ostali...", Vreme, 15 February 2007, accessed 20 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Mikavica ipak skrivio sudar", Danas, 8 August 2007, accessed 20 July 2021.
  12. ^ "DSS lawmaker resigns from job", B92, 3 November 2006, accessed 20 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Mikavica izbačen iz DSS", Blic, 7 December 2007, accessed 20 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Mikavica prešao u 'naprednjake'", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 17 March 2009, accessed 20 July 2021.
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