Marina Raguš

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Marina Raguš
Марина Рагуш
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
3 August 2020
In office
14 February 2007 – 31 May 2012
Personal details
Born (1969-07-08) 8 July 1969 (age 52)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partySerbian Progressive Party
Serbian Radical Party (1996–2012)
OccupationPolitician

Marina Raguš (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Рагуш; born 8 July 1969) is a politician in Serbia. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2012 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS) and was re-elected to the assembly in 2020 on the electoral list of the Serbian Patriotic Alliance (Srpski patriotski savez, SPAS). She is now a member of the presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).

Early life and career[]

Raguš was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She has a bachelor's degree in political science and international relations.[1] Raguš began working part-time for Studio B after her graduation; soon after this, she moved to the Yugoslavian ministry of information. She has also been active in a non-governmental organization called the Institute for the Research of Serbian Suffering in the Twentieth Century.[2]

Politician[]

Serbian Radical Party member (1996–2012)[]

Raguš became active with the Radical Party in the Belgrade municipality of Voždovac in 1996.[3] She ran for the City Assembly of Belgrade in Voždovac's tenth division in the 2000 Serbian local elections and lost to a candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS). She subsequently appeared in the 172nd position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election and was not awarded a mandate when the list won twenty-three seats..[4] (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 the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Raguš could have been awarded a mandate notwithstanding her position on the list, though in the event she was not.)[5]

She received the sixteenth position on the SRS's list in the 2007 parliamentary election and was this time included in her party's assembly delegation when the list won eighty-one seats.[6][7] Although the Radicals were the largest party in the parliament that followed, they fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition. During her first term, Raguš served on the assembly's foreign affairs committee and the committee on environmental protection.[8]

Raguš was given the twentieth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2008 parliamentary election and was awarded a mandate for the second term after the list won seventy-eight seats.[9][10] The overall result of the election was inconclusive, but a coalition government was ultimately formed by the For a European Serbia (Za evropsku Srbiju, ZES) alliance and the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and the Radicals continued to serve in opposition. Raguš also appeared in the lead position on the SRS's list for Voždovac in the concurrent 2008 Serbian local elections; the Radicals were defeated by the ZES, and she did not take a seat in the municipal assembly afterwards.[11][12][13] In parliament, Raguš continued to serve on the foreign affairs committee and also served on the committee for development and international economic relations.[14] She was also a member of Vojislav Šešelj's defence committee at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague during this time.

The Radical Party experienced a serious split in late 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Raguš remained with the Radicals. Her public profile was unexpectedly increased in 2009, when she was the only Radical Party delegate not to be expelled from a particular session of the Serbian parliament. Her performance in the assembly received a favourable response from the media, including from sources not normally inclined to support the Radicals.[15]

Raguš was considered a rising star in the SRS during this time, but she did not remain at the forefront of the party for long. The government that was formed in Voždovac after the 2008 local elections proved unstable, and a new local election was called for June 2009. Raguš again led the Radical list; weakened by the previous year's split, the party fell to only three mandates.[16][17] This time, she took a seat in the local assembly.[18] Post-election negotiations for a municipal government were not successful, and yet another local election was held in December 2009. This time, Raguš appeared in the second position on the SRS list.[19] The party continued to lose support, and the list fell below the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.[20] Raguš began withdrawing from party activities after this time, amid rumours that she was unhappy with the party's strategy in the local campaigns.[21][22]

She did not appear on the SRS list for the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. After the election, she said that she was no longer a member of any party. There were rumours that she would cross to the Progressives at this time, in conjunction with fellow disillusioned Radical Aleksandar Martinović, but this did not occur.[23]

Return to political life (2020–present)[]

After eight years out of political life, Raguš contested the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election on the electoral list of Aleksandar Šapić's Serbian Patriotic Alliance, appearing in the second position as a non-party candidate.[24][25] The list won eleven seats, and she returned to parliament for a third term. (Serbia's electoral laws had been reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists). She was chosen afterwards as the leader of the SPAS parliamentary group.[26]

In May 2021, the Serbian Patriotic Alliance was merged into the Progressive Party. Raguš joined the SNS's parliamentary group and is currently listed as a member of the party's presidency.[27] She is also a member of the assembly committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society, the chair of a subcommittee on the information society and digitalization, and a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.[28]

Electoral record[]

Local (Belgrade)[]

2000 City Assembly of Belgrade election
Voždovac Division X[29]
Vojislav Milošević Serbian Renewal Movement
Marina Raguš Serbian Radical Party
Rebeka Srbinović Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Affiliation: New Democracy) Elected
Milivoje Todorović Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left

References[]

  1. ^ MARINA RAGUŠ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 7 January 2022.
  2. ^ Marina Raguš, istinomer.rs, accessed 7 January 2022.
  3. ^ Jasmina Lukač, "Marina Raguš: Spasiteljka", Danas, 25 February 2020, 7 January 2022.
  4. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  7. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
  8. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: РАГУШ, МАРИНА, Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 January 2022.
  9. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године (ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ – 4 СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
  10. ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
  11. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 13 (30 April 2008), p. 3.
  12. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 15 (12 May 2008), pp 1–2.
  13. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 25 (23 July 2008), pp. 2-3.
  14. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: РАГУШ, МАРИНА, Archived 2008-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 January 2022.
  15. ^ Jasmina Lukač, "Marina Raguš: Spasiteljka", Danas, 25 February 2020, 7 January 2022.
  16. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 26 (28 May 2009), p. 3.
  17. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 53 Number 31 (15 June 2009), p. 2.
  18. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 53 Number 40 (26 August 2009), p. 29.
  19. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 53 Number 52 (25 November 2009), p. 5.
  20. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 53 Number 54 (7 December 2009), pp. 1-2.
  21. ^ "Marina Raguš napušta radikale", Novosti, 18 October 2010, accessed 7 January 2022. The specific report referenced in the title of this article turned out not to be true, at the time.
  22. ^ "Marina Raguš zaboravila da je poslanik", Novosti, 4 May 2010, accessed 7 January 2022.
  23. ^ "Marina Raguš: Ni SNS, ni SRS", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 5 July 2013, accessed 7 January 2022.
  24. ^ Ivana Mastilović Jasnić, "POSLE OSAM GODINA OPET U POLITICI, A MOŽDA I U VLADI", Blic, 2 August 2020, accessed 7 January 2022.
  25. ^ Miloš D. Miljković, "Prvih 10 kandidata na listi 'Aleksandar Šapić – Pobeda za Srbiju'", Danas, 15 March 2020, accessed 7 January 2022.
  26. ^ "U Skupštini 11 poslanika bez poslaničke grupe", Radio Television of Serbia, 24 August 2020, accessed 7 January 2022.
  27. ^ ПРЕДСЕДНИШТВО, Serbian Progressive Party, accessed 7 January 2022.
  28. ^ "MARINA RAGUS", National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 January 2022. This site does not indicate that she is a member of any party, though it is possible that her affiliation was omitted in error.
  29. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 13 (15 September 2000), p. 421; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 15 (20 October 2000), p. 469.
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