Nataša Mićić

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Nataša Mićić
Наташа Мићић
Mićić in 2001
President of Serbia
Acting
In office
29 December 2002 – 27 January 2004
Prime MinisterZoran Đinđić
Zoran Živković
Preceded byMilan Milutinović
Succeeded byDragan Maršićanin (acting)
President of the National Assembly of Serbia
In office
6 December 2001 – 27 January 2004
Preceded byDragan Maršićanin
Succeeded byDragan Maršićanin
Personal details
Born (1965-11-02) 2 November 1965 (age 58)
LDP (2007–present)
SpouseMiodrag Mićić
Children1
ProfessionLawyer
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Nataša Mićić (Serbian Cyrillic: Наташа Мићић; née Jovanović; born 2 November 1965) is a Serbian lawyer and politician who served as the president of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and as the acting president of Serbia from 2002 to 2004.

Mićić graduated from the

Otpor!
student movement, acting as their spokesperson and legal counsel.

Political career

Mićić's law and political careers frequently overlapped. She became a

Democratic Party of Serbia
(DSS).

Parliamentary President (Speaker) 2001–2003

After

DSS MPs and the remaining DOS MPs, Mićić immediately replaced him as the president of National Assembly and the chairman of its Constitutional Committee.[1]

As Milan Milutinović's mandate as the President of Serbia expired, and two presidential elections were voided because turnout fell short of required 50%, she became the acting President of Serbia on 30 December 2002, with a constitutional obligation to call another election within 60 days of taking over the acting post. She did not do so in the required period, leading to a chorus of criticism.

Following the assassination of Zoran Đinđić on 12 March 2003, a state of emergency was immediately declared under her command.

By May of the same year, the situation had calmed and the state of emergency was lifted. For Mićić, however, the fall of 2003 would become a crucial period in her political career.

Firstly, on 17 September 2003, over six months after the required constitutional period expired, she finally announced a 16 November date for a third attempt at electing a President for Serbia.[2] She then experienced continuous parliamentary pressure because of the voting scandal involving DOS MP Neda Arnerić.

On 16 October 2003 after the ruling DOS coalition was left without a parliamentary majority for the first time in almost three years, a motion for a no-confidence vote proceeding started for the parliamentary president Nataša Mićić.[3] The parliamentary discussion on this issue finished on 29 October 2003, but the actual non-confidence vote was postponed for a fortnight.

In the end, it proved unnecessary, as on 13 November 2003, just three days before the presidential elections that would later be void again because of low turnout, Mićić dissolved parliament and called for parliamentary elections on 28 December 2003.

Back in opposition

The GSS entered the new parliamentary elections on the Democratic Party (DS) ballot, and was given 2 seats out of the total 31 that the DS list got.

Nataša Mićić became one of GSS MPs, while

Liberal Democratic Party
.

Personal

Nataša Mićić is married to Miodrag Mićić, member of GSS municipal board in Užice.

In late March 2006, her husband was in the news for phoning and reportedly verbally threatening journalist Nenad Kovačević from the

Serbian Assembly Members of Parliament from Užice declared their personal monthly income to be over RSD1.2 million (~€15,000). Nobody was mentioned by name but Miodrag Mićić apparently thought it obvious the article alludes to him and his wife, and allegedly decided to menace Kovačević over the phone by reportedly proclaiming: "If anything happens to my home, my wife or my child, the same will happen to your family and your kids; you singled out my home and my family by writing this article".[4]

While admitting to calling up Kovačević and "reacting hastily after getting into an argument [with the journalist]", Miodrag Mićić denied using the exact words ascribed to him.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Vesti – NATASA MICIC NOVI PREDSEDNIK SKUPSTINE SRBIJE – Internet, Radio i TV stanica; najnovije vesti iz Srbije". B92. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Vesti – Predsednički izbori u Srbiji 16. novembra – Internet, Radio i TV stanica; najnovije vesti iz Srbije". B92. 17 September 2003.
  3. ^ "Vesti – Skupština prekinula sednicu, nastavak u sredu – Internet, Radio i TV stanica; najnovije vesti iz Srbije". B92. 16 October 2003.
  4. ^ a b "Vesti – Užice – pretnje ili odbrana – Internet, Radio i TV stanica; najnovije vesti iz Srbije". B92. Retrieved 30 May 2011.

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Government offices
Preceded by President of Serbia
Acting

2002–2004
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by President of the Civic Alliance of Serbia
2004–2007
Succeeded by
Position abolished