Ivan Kostić (Serbian politician)
Ivan Kostić | |
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Иван Костић | |
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia | |
In office 1 August 2022 – 6 February 2024 | |
In office 3 June 2016 – 3 August 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Vrbas, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | 15 September 1975
Political party | Dveri |
Ivan B. Kostić (
Early life and career
Kostić was born in
Politician
Kostić joined Dveri in 2002 and has been its Vojvodina coordinator since the movement began operating as a political party in 2012. He led the party's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and was given the fourteenth position on its list in the concurrent 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[3][4] He later led its list for Vrbas in the 2013 Serbian local elections and was promoted to the tenth position in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[5][6] In each instance, Dveri failed to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the relevant assembly.[7]
Dveri formed an alliance with the
Parliamentarian
First term (2016–20)
Kostić was given the thirteenth position on a combined Dveri–DSS list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, which was held concurrently with the provincial vote, and was elected when the list won exactly thirteen mandates.[9] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won the election, and Dveri served in opposition.
Kostić became chair of the assembly committee on the diaspora and
In his first term, Kostić was also a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the committee on agriculture, forestry, and water management; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Dveri joined an opposition boycott of the assembly in 2019 and did not participate in the 2020 parliamentary elections. In early 2020, Kostić joined Dveri leader Boško Obradović in an eleven-day hunger strike on the steps of the national assembly, accusing the Progressives and their allies of undermining Serbia's state institutions.[18] His first assembly mandate ended on 3 August 2020.
Second term (2022–24)
The opposition boycott ended in 2022, and Dveri contested the
In August 2022, Kostić presented Dveri's ten-point platform for
In his second term, Kostić was the deputy leader of Dveri's assembly group, a member of the diaspora committee, a deputy member of the committee on Kosovo and Metohija, the committee on the rights of child, and the committee on agriculture, forestry, and water management, a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and a member of Serbia's friendship groups with Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Russia.[21]
In June 2023, Kostić accused
Dveri contested the 2023 parliamentary election in an alliance with the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ), and Kostić was given the fourth position on their combined list.[23] The list did not cross the electoral threshold, and his second term ended when the new parliament convened in February 2024. The following month, he called on the National Democratic Alternative (NADA) to initiate a new coalition of opposition right-wing parties, which he said Dveri was willing to join.[24]
References
- ^ IVAN KOSTIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 October 2017.
- ^ Мр Иван Костић, Dveri, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 10 - “ДВЕРИ ЗА СРПСКУ ВОЈВОДИНУ” - кандидати за посланике) (2012), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (8 ДВЕРИ ЗА ЖИВОТ СРБИЈЕ), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 48 Number 10 (2 October 2013), p. 14.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9 ДВЕРИ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
- ^ For the 2013 municipal results, see Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 48 Number 11 (14 October 2013), p. 3.
- ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 7 - ДВЕРИ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ – САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ – БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ) (2016), Archived 2021-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 24. април 2016. године – Изборне листе (5 ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Archived 2021-04-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ "Mr Ivan Kostić: Očekujem konstruktivan i efikasan rad Odbora za dijasporu i Srbe u regionu", Beta, 7 July 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Poslanik Dveri na čelu skupštinskog Odbora za dijasporu", Blic (Sources: Beta, Tanjug), 7 July 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Osnivanje Nacionalnog saveta Srba u Sloveniji 1. oktobra", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 8 September 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
- ^ "Kostić: Organizovaćemo debatu o položaju Srba u BiH", Blic, 3 September 2016, accessed 5 October 2017.
- ^ Sixth Sitting of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, National Assembly of Serbia, 19 April 2017, accessed 5 October 2017.
- ^ M. R. Milenković, "Smenjen Ivan Kostić predsednik Odbora za dijasporu", Danas, 17 May 2018, accessed 14 February 2021.
- ^ Мр Иван Костић, Dveri, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ IVAN mr KOSTIĆ, Archived 2020-01-23 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 April 2024.
- ^ Mirjana R. Milenković, "Ivan Kostić: Idealista", Danas, 20 May 2020, accessed 14 February 2021.
- ^ Vojin Radovanović, "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Patriotskog bloka za kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 23 February 2022, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Ivan Kostić (Dveri) predstavio platoformu od deset tačaka za Kosovo i Metohiju", Danas, 15 August 2022, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ IVAN MA KOSTIC, Archived 2023-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ "Kostić (Dveri) pita: Da li je nova Vučićeva ideja da se Srbi sa Kosova isele u centralnu Srbiju", Beta, 3 July 2023, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Proglašena izborna lista stranke Zavetnici i pokreta Dveri: Pogledajte ko su kandidati", Danas, 5 November 2023, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ "Narodna stranka i Dosta je bilo čekaju Dveri, a Dveri poziv koalicije NADA za zajednički nastup desnice na beogradskim izborima", Danas, 5 March 2024, accessed 22 April 2024.