Nikola Pavković
Nikola Pavković (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Павковић; born 1956) is a Serbian politician. He was the mayor of Pećinci from 2000 to 2008 and served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2008 to 2012. During his time as an elected official, Pavković was a member of the Democratic Party (DS).
Private career[edit]
Pavković is a specialist doctor.[1] In a 2003 interview, he said that he entered politics "out of pure desperation [...] the moment he realized that there was no fall of communism in Pećinci."[2]
Politician[edit]
Mayor of Pećinci[edit]
The Democratic Party joined the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), an ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to Slobodan Milošević's administration, in early 2000. DOS candidate Vojislav Koštunica defeated Milošević in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed moment in Serbian politics.
Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) actually won a majority victory in the Pećinci municipal assembly in the 2000 Serbian local elections, but the local Socialist board realized the party could not form a viable administration under the changed political circumstances and instead permitted the DOS govern the municipality. Pavković, who had been elected as a DOS candidate, was chosen as president of the assembly, a position that was at the time equivalent to mayor.[3]
Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections and also separated the offices of mayor and assembly president. Pavković was re-elected as mayor of Pećinci, defeating a candidate of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in the second round of voting. In a March 2008 interview, Pavković said that Pećinci had achieved Serbia's largest budget per capita in Serbia due to a strong level of investment.[4] He also announced in the same period that the municipality had signed a protocol on the construction of a university.[5]
His term as mayor ended in 2008.
Politics at the republic and provincial levels[edit]
Pavković appeared in the 199th position (out of 250) on the DS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[6] The list won thirty-seven seats, and he was not included in the party's delegation.[7] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to successful parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.[8] Pavković could have been given a mandate despite his low position on the list, but he was not.)
He received the 181st position on the DS's list in the 2007 parliamentary election and again did not receive a mandate.[9][10]
Pavković was elected for the Pećinci constituency seat in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election. The DS and its allies won a majority government, and he served in the provincial assembly as a supporter of the administration. He was not a candidate for re-election in 2012.
Electoral record[edit]
Provincial (Vojvodina)[edit]
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Dr. Nikola Pavković | "For a European Vojvodina–Democratic Party–G17 Plus–Boris Tadić" (Affiliation: Democratic Party) | 4,470 | 42.77 | 3,793 | 62.70 | |
| Duško Dobrilović | Serbian Radical Party | 3,119 | 29.84 | 2,256 | 37.30 | |
| Milan Aleksić Munja | Democratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia–Vojislav Koštunica | 1,236 | 11.83 | |||
| Sava Đurđević Ćata | Party of United Pensioners of Serbia | 866 | 8.29 | |||
| Aleksandar Kovačević | Liberal Democratic Party | 761 | 7.28 | |||
| Total | 10,452 | 100.00 | 6,049 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 10,452 | 91.28 | 6,049 | 97.31 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 998 | 8.72 | 167 | 2.69 | ||
| Total votes | 11,450 | 100.00 | 6,216 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: [11] | ||||||
Local (Pećinci)[edit]
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Nikola Pavković (incumbent) | Democratic Party | 2,865 | 55.58 | |||
| Lazar Čavić | Serbian Radical Party | 2,290 | 44.42 | |||
| other candidates | ||||||
| Total | 5,155 | 100.00 | ||||
| Source: [12] | ||||||
References[edit]
- ^ Избори мај 2008. године - резултати по већинском изборном систему (42 ПЕЋИНЦИ) Archived 2021-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
- ^ "Sanjajući sremski Eldorado", Glas javnosti, 18 January 2003, accessed 23 August 2023.
- ^ "Sanjajući sremski Eldorado", Glas javnosti, 18 January 2003, accessed 23 August 2023.
- ^ "Највећи буџет у Србији по глави становника", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 13 March 2008, accessed 23 August 2023.
- ^ "Studentski kampus kao u Americi", Danas, 12 March 2008, accessed 23 August 2023.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5. ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА – БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.
- ^ "Podrška neoročenoj vladi", Glas javnosti, 15 January 2004, accessed l6 August 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Демократска странка – Борис Тадић), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
- ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 24 August 2023.
- ^ Избори мај 2008. године - резултати по већинском изборном систему (42 ПЕЋИНЦИ) Archived 2021-12-22 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
- ^ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., "REPUBLICKI ZAVOD ZA STATISTIKU - Republike Srbije". Archived from the original on 2010-10-03. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021. The fact that Čavić was Pavković's second round opponent is confirmed in Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party publication], Volume 15 Number 1956 (September 2004), pp. 16-17.