Sanja Miladinović

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Sanja Miladinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Сања Миладиновић; born 8 November 1980) is a Serbian politician. She was the president (i.e., speaker) of the Merošina municipal assembly in 2012 and served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2022 to 2024. Miladinović is a member of the Democratic Party (DS).

Private career[edit]

Miladinović has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in education and has worked as a primary school teacher.[1] She is the author of the book, Ekološko obrazovanje u osnovnoj školi (English: Environmental Education in Primary School).[2]

Politician[edit]

Local politics in Merošina (2004–2020)[edit]

The 2004 Serbian local elections resulted in an extremely fragmented local assembly in Merošina, with the municipality's thirty-seven seats being divided among ten political groupings.[3] The Democratic Party won two seats and afterward participated in the local coalition government. Miladinović was one of her party's assembly representatives.[4] Available online sources do not confirm the point, but is likely that she served a second term following the 2008 local elections, in which the DS won three seats in the municipality.[5]

The Democratic Party won eight seats in Merošina in the 2012 local elections, finishing a close second against the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).[6] The SPS, DS, and United Regions of Serbia (URS) formed a coalition government after the election, and Miladinović, who was by this time the leader of the local DS organization, became speaker of the assembly.[7][8] Her term in office was relatively short; in December 2012, a new local coalition of the URS and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came to power, and she was removed as speaker by a vote of twenty-one to fifteen.[9] The local government remained unstable, and the DS briefly returned to power in April 2016 in coalition with a dissident group of local Progressives.[10]

Miladinović led the DS's electoral list for Merošina the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the party won two seats.[11][12] The Serbian Progressive Party formed a new government after the election, and the DS served in opposition.[13] Her term ended in August 2019, when the local assembly was dissolved and an interim administration was established.[14]

The DS and other opposition parties began boycotting Serbia's political institutions in 2019, charging that the Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS were undermining the country's democratic foundations. The DS did not participate in the 2020 Serbian local elections.

Parliamentarian (2022–24)[edit]

Miladinović appeared in the 159th position on the Democratic Party's Choice for a Better Life list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[15] This was too low a position for election to be a realistic prospect, and she was not elected when the list won sixty-seven seats. She later appeared in the seventy-second position on the DS's list in the 2014 parliamentary election and the 125th position in the 2016 parliamentary election; the party's coalitions won nineteen and sixteen seats in these elections, respectively, and she was again not elected.[16][17] The DS boycotted the 2020 parliamentary election.

For the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, the DS joined United for the Victory of Serbia, a broad coalition of opposition parties. Miladinović appeared in the forty-fifth position on the coalition's list and was not immediately elected when the coalition won thirty-eight mandates.[18] She was, however, awarded a mandate on 25 October 2022 as a replacement for Olivera Lazović, who had resigned.[19] Her term formally began the following day.[20] The SNS and its allies won the 2022 election, and Miladinović served in opposition. She was the only delegate from Merošina in this sitting of the assembly and one of a comparatively small number of delegates from the south of Serbia generally. After receiving a mandate, she said that she would advocate for decentralization, the direct election of mayors, an end to closed list proportional representation, the annulment of a recent decision to shut down the JKP Hammeum in Prokuplje, and an end to the "alienation" of Niš's airport.[21] She was the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with South Sudan.[22]

Miladinović was not a candidate in the 2023 parliamentary election, and her term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024.

Return to local politics (2023–present)[edit]

Miladinović led the Democratic Party's electoral list for Merošina in the 2023 Serbian local elections and was elected when the party won four mandates.[23][24] The SNS and its allies won the election, and the DS serves in opposition.

In early 2024, Miladinović played a leading role in re-establishing a local branch of the Democratic Party in Niš.[25]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tamara Radanović, "Merošina dobila poslanicu u Skupštini Srbije, Sanju Miladinović iz DS-a", Južne vesti, 4 November 2022, accessed 20 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Promocija dela srpskih pisaca fantastike na Sajmu", Južne vesti, 27 November 2015, accessed 20 April 2024.
  3. ^ Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; p. 102.
  4. ^ Direktorijum lokalnih samouprava u Srbiji, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID), September 2005, pp. 208-209.
  5. ^ Lokalni Izbori 2008; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 14, 72.
  6. ^ REZULTATI IZBORA 2012 (Merošina - Rezultati izbora 2012.), Archived 2012-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Free Elections and Democracy, accessed 20 December 2021; ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2012, Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 14, 89.
  7. ^ "U Merošini vlast formirana bez problema", Južne vesti, 6 June 2012, accessed 20 April 2024.
  8. ^ Конституисање скупштине, Archived 2012-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Merošina, accessed 20 April 2024.
  9. ^ "URS ruši vlast u Merošini", Južne vesti, 14 December 2012, accessed 20 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Naprednjaci i DS smenili SNS u Merošini", Južne vesti, 8 April 2016, accessed 21 December 2021.
  11. ^ Izborna Lista DS, Archived 2016-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, Dokumenta (Izbori 2016), Municipality of Merošina, accessed 20 April 2024.
  12. ^ Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2016; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 14, 77.
  13. ^ "Merošina: SNS na vlasti, Naprednjaci u opoziciji", Južne vesti, 20 May 2016, accessed 20 April 2024.
  14. ^ "Raspušta se Skupština opštine Merošina", B92, 12 August 2019, accessed 20 December 2021.
  15. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 ИЗБОР ЗА БОЉИ ЖИВОТ- БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  16. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 СА ДЕМОКРАТСКОМ СТРАНКОМ ЗА ДЕМОКРАТСКУ СРБИЈУ), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  17. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (2 ЗА ПРАВЕДНУ СРБИЈУ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА (НОВА, ДСХВ, ЗЗС)), Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  18. ^ "Ko su kandidati 'Ujedinjeni za pobedu Srbije' za poslanike?", Danas, 20 February 2022, accessed 8 July 2022.
  19. ^ 110. седница Републичке изборне комисије – 25. октобар 2022., Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 April 2024.
  20. ^ "Skupština izabrala novu Vladu na čelu sa Anom Brnabić, ministri položili zakletvu", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 26 October 2022, accessed 20 April 2024.
  21. ^ Tamara Radovanović, "Merošina dobila poslanicu u Skupštini Srbije, Sanju Miladinović iz DS-a", Južne vesti, 4 November 2022, accessed 20 April 2024.
  22. ^ SANЈA MILADINOVIC, Archived 2023-02-04 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 April 2024.
  23. ^ ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА САЊА МИЛАДИНОВИЋ-ДС, Izbori 2023, Merošina Municipal Election Commission, accessed 18 April 2024.
  24. ^ УКУПАН ИЗВЕШТАЈ О РЕЗУЛТАТИМА ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СО МЕРОШИНА, Izbori 2023, Merošina Municipal Election Commission, accessed 18 April 2024.
  25. ^ Sonja Vidojković, "Demokratska stranka u Nišu imaće stranačke izbore - 'očistili smo se od loših ljudi'", Južne vesti, 3 March 2024, accessed 20 April 2024.
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