Aleksandar Milutinović
Aleksandar Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Милутиновић; 16 October 1948 – 18 September 2013) was a politician and administrator in Serbia. He was a prominent member of Belgrade's city government from 1997 to 2000, a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 1997 to 2001, and briefly Serbia's transport minister in 2000–01 after the fall of Slobodan Milošević's administration. Milutinović was a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO).
Private career
[edit]Milutinović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] He was a graduated engineer.[2]
Politician
[edit]The SPO contested the 1993 Serbian parliamentary election as part of a larger Democratic Movement of Serbia (Demokratski pokret Srbije, DEPOS) coalition. Milutinović appeared in the twenty-fourth position on the coalition's list in the Belgrade division.[3] The list won eleven mandates, and he was not awarded a mandate.[4][5] (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of sponsoring parties or coalitions. Milutinović could have received an optional mandate, though in the event he did not.)[6]
Belgrade city government
[edit]The SPO later formed an alliance called Zajedno (English: Together) with the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) and the Civic Alliance of Serbia (Građanski savez Srbije, GSS). Milutinović was elected to both the City Assembly of Belgrade and the New Belgrade municipal assembly as a Zajedno candidate in the 1996 Serbian local elections.[7][8] The Serbian government, led by Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), did not initially recognize the victories of Zajedno is several municipalities, leading to extended protests that lasted into early 1997. The opposition's victory was eventually recognized in most disputed areas, including the city of Belgrade (although not in New Belgrade, where the SPS retained power).
When Zajedno officially formed government in Belgrade in February 1997, Milutonović was appointed as a vice-president of the city's executive council (i.e., effectively a deputy premier of the city government).[9] He was given specific responsibility for economy and finance.[10][11]
Zajedno subsequently broke up in Belgrade, and Milutinović became a vocal critic of DS mayor Zoran Đinđić, accusing him of violating joint accords and campaigning against the SPO.[12] Đinđić was dismissed as mayor on 30 September 1997, and the SPO became the sole party in the city's government, governing with informal support in the assembly from the SPS and the Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS).
Milutinović oversaw Belgrade's public transit sector during his time in the city's government. In February 2000, he complained that the Serbian government had not responded to the city's request for a fare increase from five to eight dinars.[13]
He ran for re-election to the Belgrade assembly in Stari Grad's second constituency in the 2000 Serbian local elections and was defeated by future mayor Nenad Bogdanović, the candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS).
Parliamentarian and cabinet minister
[edit]Milutinović received the second position on the SPO's list for New Belgrade in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election and was awarded an optional mandate when the list won two seats.[14][15] The SPS and its allies won the election, and the SPO served in opposition.
Slobodan Milošević was defeated by DOS candidate Vojislav Koštunica in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, an event that prompted wide-ranging changes in the governments of Serbia and Yugoslavia. A transitional Serbian government comprising representatives of the SPS, DOS, and SPO was established in October 2000, and Milutinović was included in the administration as transport minister.[16]
Serbia's election laws were subsequently changed such that the entire country was counted as a single electoral district and all mandates were assigned at the discretion of successful parties and coalitions, irrespective of the numerical order of candidates. Milutinović received the 117th position on the SPO's list, which was mostly alphabetical; the list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.[17] His term in government ended on 25 January 2001.
Administrator
[edit]The SPO contested the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS), and Milutinović appeared on their combined list in the fifty-third position.[18] The list won twenty-two seats, and the SPO again participated in Serbia's coalition government after the election. Milutinović was not returned to the assembly, but on 25 March 2004 he was appointed as general director of the publicly owned company Jat Airways.[19] In this role, he planned to revise a prior agreement signed by the Milošević government with Airbus and to purchase new planes from Boeing, although this plan was not successful.[20][21][22] JAT went into receivership on 17 February 2005, and Milutinović was removed as director.[23]
Death
[edit]Milutinović died on 18 September 2013.[24]
Electoral record
[edit]City Assembly of Belgrade
[edit]| Nenad Bogdanović (incumbent) | Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Affiliation: Democratic Party) | Elected |
| Vasilije Jeremić | Serbia Together | |
| Leposava Milićević | Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left (Affiliation: Yugoslav Left) | |
| Aleksandar Milutinović (incumbent for New Belgrade) | Serbian Renewal Movement | |
| Nenad Čoporda | Serb Party | |
| Nemanja Šarović | Serbian Radical Party |
References
[edit]- ^ "Vremeplov (18. septembar 2019)", Radio Television of Serbia, 18 September 2019.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6. СРПСКИ ПОКРЕТ ОБНОВЕ - НОВА СРБИЈА - ВУК ДРАШКОВИЋ - ВЕЛИМИР ИЛИЋ), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Београд), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ Službeni glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 50 Number 2 (25 January 1994), pp. 193-194.
- ^ Guide to the Early Election Archived 2022-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 43 Number 3 (22 February 1997), p. 1.
- ^ Milutinović was elected for New Belgrade's thirty-fourth division. See Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 41 Number 1 (22 January 1997), pp. 2-3.
- ^ "Belgrade assembly elects new executive council members," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service: Central Europe & Balkans, 24 February 1997 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1548 gmt 21 Feb 97).
- ^ "Radicals attack new Belgrade mayor," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service: Central Europe & Balkans, 28 February 1997 (Source: 'Nasa Borba', Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 0955 gmt 26 Feb 97).
- ^ 'We will invite the Government of Serbia to talk to 400,000 Belgraders', Naša borba, 28 April 1997, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Belgrade mayor survives vote of confidence," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service: Central Europe & Balkans, 21 July 1997 (Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 2158 gmt 18 Jul 97).
- ^ "Belgrade authorities report no reply from Serbian government over fares," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European - Political, 2 February 2000 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1630 gmt 2 Feb 00).
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Нови Београд), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 August 2021.
- ^ [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], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 August 2021.
- ^ "SPO appoints representatives for transitional Serbian government," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European - Political, 19 October 2000 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 2020 gmt 18 Oct 00).
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 „Српски покрет обнове – Вук Драшковић" – Вук Драшковић), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6. СРПСКИ ПОКРЕТ ОБНОВЕ - НОВА СРБИЈА - ВУК ДРАШКОВИЋ - ВЕЛИМИР ИЛИЋ), Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Serbian government appoints new Yugoslav airlines chief," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 26 March 2004 (Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1438 gmt 25 Mar 04).
- ^ "Serb airline JAT plans to buy Boeing planes," Reuters News, 10 June 2004.
- ^ "Serbia's JAT Airways to purchase Boeing jets," Associated Press Newswires, 15 October 2004.
- ^ Marko Lakić and Borko Pavićević, "'Jat' čeka Godoa", Politika, 16 July 2008, accessed 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Serb Govt Appoints Flag Carrier Receiver," SeeNews, 17 February 2005.
- ^ "Vremeplov (18. septembar 2019)", Radio Television of Serbia, 18 September 2019.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 13 (15 September 2000), p. 435; Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 46 Number 15 (20 October 2000), p. 469-470.