Miomir Tadić

Serbian politician

Miomir Tadić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миомир Тадић; born 29 November 1954) is a former politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Topola from 2000 to 2004 and served in the National Assembly of Serbia for much of the same period, initially with New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS) and later as an independent.

## Private career

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Tadić is an electrical engineer.[1]

## Politician

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New Serbia joined the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to Slobodan Milošević's administration, in 2000. The DOS won a landslide majority victory in Topola in the 2000 Serbian local elections with thirty-two out of forty seats. Tadić elected to the local assembly and was chosen afterward as its president, a position that was at the time equivalent to mayor.[2]

DOS candidate Vojislav Koštunica defeated Slobodan Milošević in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, which took place concurrently with the local elections. This event prompted widespread changes in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics; among other things, Serbia's government fell and a new parliamentary election was called for December 2000. Tadić appeared in the 184th position on the DOS's electoral list.[3] The list won a landslide majority victory with 176 out of 250 seats; Tadić was not initially elected but received a mandate on 9 April 2001 as the replacement for another DOS representative.[4] (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.[5] Tadić's list position had no formal bearing on whether or when he received a mandate.) In parliament, he served as a member of the health and family committee.[6]

New Serbia withdrew its support for Serbia's government in late 2002. In December of that year, Tadić and two other party delegates went against the party's wishes and remained in the assembly for a budget vote, allowing the government to maintain quorum. They were subsequently expelled from the party.[7][8] In January 2003, they created a new assembly group with two delegates from smaller parties who had previously been aligned with the Party of Serbian Unity (Stranka srpskog jedinstva, SSJ).[9] This group did not remain united, and by the end of his parliamentary term Tadić was not a member of any parliamentary club.[10]

He was not a candidate in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election and his term as mayor ended in late 2004.

## References

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1. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ТАДИЋ , МИОМИР, Archived 2003-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 April 2022.
2. ^ "Изложба фотографија председника Општине", Municipality of Topola, 20 September 2011, accessed 15 April 2022.
3. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Демократска опозиција Србије – др Војислав Коштуница (Демократска странка, Демократска странка Србије, Социјалдемократија, Грађански савез Србије, Демохришћанска странка Србије, Нова Србија, Покрет за демократску Србију, Лига соFцијалдемократа Војводине, Реформска демократска странка Војводине, Коалиција Војводина, Савез војвођанских Мађара, Демократска алтернатива, Демократски центар, Нова демократија, Социјалдемократска унија, Санxачка демократска партија, Лига за Шумадију, Српски покрет отпора – Демократски покрет)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.
4. ^ DRUGA SEDNICA, PRVOG REDOVNOG ZASEDANJA, 09.04.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 15 April 2022.
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. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ТАДИЋ , МИОМИР, Archived 2003-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 April 2022.
7. ^ "Suspenzija do sednice GO", Glas javnosti, 19 December 2000, accessed 15 April 2022.
8. ^ "GO Nove Srbije isključio tri poslanika iz stranke", B92, 1 February 2003, accessed 15 April 2022.
9. ^ "Formiran novi poslanički klub Srbija", B92, 23 January 2003, accessed 15 April 2022.
10. ^ ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: ТАДИЋ , МИОМИР, Archived 2003-08-16 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 April 2022.