Zlata Đerić

Zlata Đerić (Serbian Cyrillic: Злата Ђерић; born 23 December 1958) is a politician in Serbia. She has served four terms in the National Assembly of Serbia and one term in the Assembly of Vojvodina. Formerly a member of New Serbia (Nova Srbija, NS), she ran in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the "METLA 2020" alliance.

Private career

Đerić was born in Sombor, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad in 1982 and has published a number of works about the Serbian language and Serbian literature including the book Psihologija srpske politike - Ispravljanje krive Drine.[1][2]

Politician

Early years and first assembly term

Đerić entered political life as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO), appearing in the lead position on the party's electoral list for the Sombor division in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] She would have automatically received a mandate had the list crossed the electoral threshold, but it did not.[4] The SPO experienced a serious split the following year, and Đerić joined the breakaway New Serbia party under the leadership of Velimir Ilić.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed prior to the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election: the entire country was designated as a single electoral district, and parliamentary mandates were assigned at the discretion of successful parties or coalitions, irrespective of the numerical order of the candidates. New Serbia participated in the election as part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a broad coalition of parties opposed to the former administration of Slobodan Milošević. Đerić was included on the DOS list in the 212th position.[5] The list won a landslide victory with 176 out of 250 seats. Đerić was not initially included in the DOS's assembly delegation but was awarded a mandate on 4 December 2001 as the replacement for another party member.[6] New Serbia provided support for the DOS government until 2002, when it broke from the alliance and moved into opposition.

New Serbia contested the 2003 parliamentary election in an alliance with the SPO and the 2007 parliamentary election in an alliance with the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS). Both times, Đerić appeared on the coalition's electoral list.[7][8] She was not selected for a mandate on either occasion.

Return to the national assembly

The DSS and New Serbia continued their alliance into the 2008 parliamentary election. Đerić received the fiftieth position on their list[9] and was this time awarded a mandate for a second term in the assembly when the list won thirty seats.[10] The results of the election were initially inconclusive, but a new government was eventually formed by the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS), the Socialist Party of Serbia, and other parties; New Serbia served in opposition.

Serbia's electoral system was again reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. New Serbia formed an alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party during this time and contested the 2012 parliamentary election on the latter's Let's Get Serbia Moving list. Đerić received the fifty-seventh position and was re-elected when it won seventy-three mandates.[11] A new coalition government was formed after the election that included New Serbia, and Đerić served as part of its parliamentary majority. She was given the sixty-ninth position on the Progressive Party's coalition list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was again re-elected when the list won a majority victory with 158 mandates.[12] In September 2014, she was chosen to lead a working group on human rights and freedoms and the rights of the child.[13]

Assembly of Vojvodina

Đerić did not seek re-election to the national assembly in 2016 but was instead appointed as the party's provincial leader in Vojvodina and appeared in the tenth position on the Progressive Party's coalition list for the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election.[14] She was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates and subsequently served as a deputy speaker of the assembly.

In early 2017, Velimir Ilić withdrew New Serbia's support for Serbia's Progressive-led government at the republic level. This precipitated a split in the party, with several prominent party members breaking with Ilić and continuing to support the Progressives. Some party dissidents in Vojvodina also objected to Đerić's appointment as party leader.[15] Đerić initially remained with New Serbia and was elected as one of its vice-presidents in November 2017.[16] She eventually left the party, however, and created her own political movement called "Team for Life" (Tim za Život) in 2018.[17]

2020 parliamentary election

For the 2020 parliamentary election, Đerić led "Team for Life" into the METLA 2020 alliance led by the DSS and served on the alliance's presidency.[18][19] She received the fifth position on the alliance's list in the election.[20] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

Municipal politics

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 Serbian local elections, and Đerić ran as New Serbia's candidate for mayor of Sombor; she was also supported by Social Democracy and two smaller political movements. She was defeated in the first round of voting.[21] She was, however, elected to the municipal assembly when the New Serbia list won three seats and served for the following term.[22][23] The direct election of mayors proved to be a short-lived experiment and was abandoned in 2008.

For the 2008 Serbian local elections, New Serbia formed a local alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia in Sombor, and Đerić received the third position on its electoral list.[24] In the 2016 local elections, she appeared in the lead position on a list called, "Truth – New Serbia."[25] In both cases, the list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation.[26][27]

Electoral record

Local (Sombor)
2004 Sombor local election
Mayor of Sombor - Second Round Results[28]
Candidate Party or Coalition Votes  %
Dr. Jovan Slavković Democratic Party[29] 13,052 56.94
Stevan Kesejić Serbian Radical Party 9,869 43.06
Čedomir Backović Citizens' Group: 25,000 Euros eliminated in the first round
Goran Bulajić Democratic Party of Serbia eliminated in the first round
Rajko Bulatović not listed eliminated in the first round
Kosta Dedić Strength of Serbia Movement eliminated in the first round
Zlata Đerić New Serbia–Social Democracy–Revival of Serbia–"Svetozar Miletić" Movement (Affiliation: New Serbia) eliminated in the first round
Vladislav Kronić G17 Plus eliminated in the first round
Marta Horvat Odri Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians eliminated in the first round
Dušan Popović Socialist Party of Serbia eliminated in the first round
Miodrag Sekulić Independent (endorsed by Serbian Renewal Movement–People's Democratic Party) eliminated in the first round
Total valid votes 22,921 100

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