Đurđe Ninković

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Đurđe Ninković
Deputy Minister of Justice
In office
February 2001 – November 2001
Preceded byZoran Balinovac
Succeeded byDušan Protić
Personal details
Born1942
Democratic Party of Serbia
(DSS) Founding Member (July 1992 - May 2007)

Đurđe Ninković (born 1942) is a Serbian lawyer, legal commentator and political activist who was a founding member of the

the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party
in December 1989.

From late December 1989, the meetings of the Founding Committee and later the Executive Committee of the DS, took place in his law offices in Belgrade where the Pismo o namerama (Letter of intent), the first party political program of the

hotel Astoria for a few months.[1]

Biography

Djurdje was brought up in a pro-democracy family where both his parents were opponents of communist totalitarianism. His father, Milorad Dj. Ninković, was a

communist government was established in Yugoslavia in 1944 and his mother, Višnja (née Popović), also studied law at the University of Belgrade. They both believed in individual human rights and the rule of law which were trampled by the communist revolution. This influenced Djurdje in his belief that for Serbia to move forward it was first necessary to fully dismantle the legacy of communism.[1]

He graduated from Belgrade Law School in 1964 and completed his post-graduate studies at the University of London in 1968. He is a Salzburg Global Fellow, being an alumnus of the Salzburg Global Seminar course in American Law and Legal Institutions of 1977 and is also an alumnus of the Kokkalis Program at Harvard Kennedy School, Executive Education leadership course (2000), having been awarded a Kokkalis Foundation scholarship.[2][3]

He is the author of more than seventy legal articles on various topics, particularly focused on

rehabilitation of political prisoners, the rule of law and independence of the judiciary in various legal journals.[4]

Political life

Djurdje was a member of

the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party from late December 1989. He was elected Secretary of the Executive Committee,[5] at the founding party conference in February 1990 and was an elected member of the General and Executive Committees of the Democratic Party until July 1992. In 1990 he was also a founding Director of the Democratic Party opposition newspaper Demokratija.[citation needed
]

He left the DS with the pro-

hotel Astoria. He was elected to the DSS' General Committee at the founding party conference.[6]

Both within the DS and DSS he was concerned with establishing a democratic system in Serbia premised on the rule of law with a strong

privatisation; the Law of rehabilitation of political prisoners; and the Law of lustration, effectively barring those individuals who had been instrumental in the abuse of human rights under communism from holding public office for a period of years.[citation needed
]

In 2001, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice in the

non-governmental organisations (NGOs), political parties and the judiciary.[7]

After leaving office he remained involved as a legal expert within government working groups preparing draft legislation as the deputy chairman of the working group preparing the draft law on restitution of confiscated church property (adopted by Parliament in 2006).[citation needed]

He was also the chairman of the working group preparing the draft law on restitution of

post-communist countries including Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary).[citation needed
]

Since 2006 he is no longer involved in party politics having experienced a continuing lack of political will for genuine deep rooted political reforms.[citation needed]

In 2009 he actively campaigned for the immediate adoption of a just Law of

hotel Astoria which had been built by his grandfather, Djurdje S. Ninković, and owned by his family until forceful nationalisation by the Communist regime in 1948.[8]

Views

He has been very critical of The Law of Restitution of Property and Compensation, which was enacted by the Government of Serbia in October 2011 and implemented from March 2012.[9] The law imposes severe restrictions on the type of property which can be returned. This will result in a very small proportion of nationalised property being returned to their rightful owners. It also imposes an absolute cap of EUR 2 billion for the total amount of compensation which can be paid to those owners whose property will not be returned. This represents a small fraction of the total value of property which has been nationalised estimated at between EUR 220 billion and EUR 50 billion.[10]

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ a b "Remembering the beginnings of the (re-established) Democratic Party". South Slav Journal. 27 (3–4): 62–71. 2006.
  2. ^ a b c "Djurdje Ninkovic". royalfamily.org. The Royal Family of Serbia.
  3. ^ "Kokkalis Foundation". Archived from the original on 30 July 2014.
  4. ^ "List of publications". ninkovic.rs.
  5. ^ Djuric, Nesho (14 June 1990). "Serbian opposition demands minister". UPI.
  6. ^ a b Batić, Vladan (June 3, 2009). "Astorija". Blic.rs.
  7. ^ "On restitution law". projuris.org. December 2009.
  8. ^ "Денационализација у сенци комунизма". politika.rs (in Serbian). 3 March 2009.
  9. ^ "Агенција за реституцију Републике Србије". www.restitucija.gov.rs.
  10. ^ Simić, Aleks (27 April 2012). "Djurdje Ninkovic – The Law of Restitution in Serbia". Britić.
  11. ^ a b Milanovic, Stefan (February 14, 2017). "25 YEARS OF CROWN COUNCIL CELEBRATED".

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Political offices
Preceded by
Zoran Balinovac
 Deputy
Minister of Justice of Serbia

2001 (February–November) 		Succeeded by
Dušan Protić
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