Gorica Gajić Private life and early political career Member of the National...
1958 birthsLiving peoplePeople from SvilajnacDemocratic Party of Serbia politiciansMembers of the National Assembly of SerbiaMembers of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro
Serbian CyrillicSerbiaDemocratic Party of SerbiaNational Assembly of SerbiaAssembly of Serbia and MontenegroSvilajnacelectoral list2003 Serbian parliamentary election2003 Serbian parliamentary electionMontenegro20072008New Serbia20042012 parliamentary electionopposition2014 electionelectoral thresholdVojislav Koštunica2016 parliamentary electionDveriMilan LapčevićDejan ŠulkićFranceGreeceRussia
Gorica Gajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горица Гајић; born January 1, 1958) is a politician in Serbia. She is a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) and is currently serving her second term in the National Assembly of Serbia. Gajić was previously a member of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro from 2004 to 2006.
Private life and early political career
Gajić is a graduate economist based in Svilajnac.
She received the 119th position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[1] The list won fifty-three mandates, and she was not selected to serve in the party's parliamentary delegation. (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.[2] Gajić could have been selected to receive a party mandate despite her relatively low number on the list, although in the event she was not).
By virtue of its performance in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, the DSS won the right to appoint twenty members to the Federal Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro in early 2004. Gajić was appointed as part of the party's delegation and served on the assembly's committee for internal economic affairs and finance.[3][4] The federal assembly ceased to exist in 2006, when Montenegro declared its independence.
The DSS contested the Serbian parliamentary elections of 2007 and 2008 in an alliance with New Serbia. Gajić was included on the party's list both times, though she was not selected as part of its delegation on either occasion.[5]
Gajić was the DSS's candidate for mayor of Svilajnac in 2004.[6] Although unsuccessful in that contest, she served as the town's deputy mayor following the election.[7]
Member of the National Assembly
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Gajić received the twenty-fourth position on the DSS's list for the 2012 parliamentary election.[8] The party won twenty-one mandates, and she was not immediately elected; following the resignation of candidates further up the list, however, she was able to take her seat in the assembly on June 25, 2012.[9] She served as an opposition member for the next two years.
Gajić was promoted to the fifteenth position on the DSS's list in the 2014 election,[10] but the party did not receive enough votes to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. She was chosen as a party vice-chair in October 2014, after Vojislav Koštunica's resignation from the party.[11]
The DSS contested the 2016 parliamentary election in alliance with Dveri. Gajić received the eighth position on their list and was elected to a second term in the assembly when the list won thirteen mandates.[12] She once again serves as an opposition member.
The DSS parliamentary group fell apart amid internal divisions in November 2016. In the aftermath of the split, Gajić, Milan Lapčević, and Dejan Šulkić were the only assembly members to remain with the party; as five members are needed to form a parliamentary group, all sat as independents.[13] Lapčević subsequently left the party.[14]
Gajić is a member of the parliamentary committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of two other committees; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Greece, and Russia.[15]
References
^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ 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.
^ О Д Л У К У - О ИЗБОРУ ПОСЛАНИКА СКУПШТИНЕ СРБИЈЕ И ЦРНЕ ГОРЕ, Народна скупштина Републике Србије, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ GORICA GAJIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ Gajić received the sixty-fourth position in 2007 and the thirty-first position in 2008. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска Странка Србије - Нова Србија - Војислав Коштуница), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017.
^ Lokalni izbori 2004 - Za gradonačelnika Svilajnca, www.svilajnac001.co.rs, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ GORICA GAJIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 25. јула 2012. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ "Umesto jednog četiri DSS?", B92, 20 October 2014, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ M. R. Milenković, "Ujedinjenjem do veće minutaže", Danas, 7 November 2016, accessed 28 April 2017.
^ "Poslanik Milan Lapčević napustio DSS", N1, 11 April 2018, accessed 18 April 2018.
^ GORICA GAJIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 10 October 2017.
