Serbian politician
Konstantin Arsenovi?
(
Serbian Cyrillic
:
Константин Арсенови?
; 1940?January 31, 2017) was a politician and military official in
Serbia
. He served in the
National Assembly of Serbia
from 2008 until his death in 2017. Arsenovi? was a member of the
Party of United Pensioners of Serbia
(PUPS) and a
deputy speaker
of the assembly.
Early life and military career
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Arsenovi? was born in 1940 in the village of
Gornje Ko?lje
in the
Ljubovija
municipality, at the time part of the
Drina Banovina
in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
but formerly and subsequently a part of Serbia. His parliamentary biography indicates that, after attending technical high school, he attended
Yugoslavia
's Military Technical Academy, High Military Technical Academy, Command and Staff School, and National Defence School. He served in the
Yugoslav People's Army
and the successor
Armed Forces of Yugoslavia
from 1961 to 2000, overseeing a variety of responsibilities.
[1]
On September 5, 1996, Arsenovi? was appointed by
Yugoslav president
Zoran Lili?
as assistant head of the Yugoslav Army General Staff responsible for reinforcements.
[2]
On December 25, 1998, he was appointed as an advisor to
Yugoslav minister of defense
Pavle Bulatovi?
.
[3]
He retired in 2000 with the rank of
lieutenant colonel general
.
[4]
Political career
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Arsenovi? was a founding member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia in 2005. This party contested the
2007 Serbian parliamentary election
in an alliance with the
Social Democratic Party
, and Arsenovi? received the seventh position on their combined
electoral list
.
[5]
The list did not cross the
electoral threshold
to win representation in the assembly.
The United Pensioners later joined an electoral alliance led by the
Socialist Party of Serbia
for the
2008 parliamentary election
. Arsenovi? was given the seventh position on the alliance's list and entered the assembly as part of the PUPS delegation after the alliance won twenty mandates.
[6]
(From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order.
[7]
Arsenovi? did not automatically receive a parliamentary mandate by virtue of his position on the list, though he was in fact awarded a mandate and served as part of a five-member United Pensioners delegation for the next four years.) The United Pensioners were included in
Mirko Cvetkovi?
's administration, and Arsenovi? served as a parliamentary supporter of the government.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The United Pensioners' alliance with the Socialist Party continued into the
2012
and
2014 elections
; Arsenovi? was returned to parliament on both occasions, in each case after receiving the sixth position on the alliance's electoral list.
[8]
[9]
PUPS remained part of the government from 2012 to 2014 and provided external support to
Aleksandar Vu?i?
's administration from 2014 to 2016. Arsenovi? was named as a deputy speaker of the assembly following the 2012 election, a position that he retained for all sittings of the assembly until his death.
[10]
In 2011, Arsenovi? offered support to an idea proposed by the
Serbian Progressive Party
that Serbia reinstate a
conscript army
. He argued that Serbia did not have an army capable of carrying out the fundamental tasks required of it and offered his view that conscription should never have been abolished. He further argued that most people in Serbia held the same belief and would willingly send their children to military service.
[11]
For the
2016 Serbian parliamentary election
, the United Pensioners joined the
Aleksandar Vu?i?
? Serbia Is Winning
electoral alliance led by the Progressive Party. Arsenovi? received the sixty-first position on their list and was declared re-elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.
[12]
PUPS returned to direct participation in government after the election. In this sitting of the assembly, Arsenovi? was a member of the committee of the rights of the child and a member of the friendship groups for
Belarus
,
Montenegro
, and
Spain
.
[13]
Death
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Arsenovi? died on January 31, 2017, aged seventy-six.
[14]
References
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Konstantin Arsenovic
, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
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"SUPREME DEFENCE COUNCIL MEETS AND APPOINTS ARMY COMMANDERS,"
British Broadcasting Corporation
Monitoring Service, Central Europe & Balkans, 7 September 1996 (Source:
Tanjug
news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1418 gmt 5 Sep 96).
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"Yugoslav state news agency details army promotions," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Political - Europe, 26 December 1998 (Source: text of report by the Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug).
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Konstantin Arsenovic
, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
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Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. ?ануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Парти?а у?еди?ених пензионера Срби?е (ПУПС) - Др ?ован Кркобаби? и Соци?алдемократска парти?а (СДП) - Др Небо?ша Чови?)
Archived
2018-04-30 at the
Wayback Machine
, Republika Srbija - Republi?ka izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
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Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. ма?а 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Соци?алистичка парти?а Срби?е (СПС), - Парти?а у?еди?них пензионера Срби?е (ПУПС) - ?единствена Срби?а (?С))
Archived
2018-04-30 at the
Wayback Machine
, Republika Srbija - Republi?ka izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
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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.
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Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. ма? 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИ? - "СОЦИ?АЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИ?А СРБИ?Е (СПС), ПАРТИ?А У?ЕДИ?ЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИ?Е (ПУПС), ?ЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИ?А (?С)")
Archived
2017-09-11 at the
Wayback Machine
, Republika Srbija - Republi?ka izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
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Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИ? - "Соци?алистичка парти?а Срби?е (СПС), Парти?а у?еди?ених пензионера Срби?е (ПУПС), ?единствена Срби?а (?С)")
Archived
2018-05-06 at the
Wayback Machine
, Republika Srbija - Republi?ka izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
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Konstantin Arsenovic
, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
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"Serbian parties, analysts view idea to reinstate conscript army," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 13 November 2011 (Source: text of report by Serbian newspaper Danas website on 10 November).
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Избори за народне посланике 2016. године ≫ Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИ? - СРБИ?А ПОБЕ?У?Е)
Archived
2018-04-27 at the
Wayback Machine
, Republika Srbija - Republi?ka izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
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Konstantin Arsenovic
, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 17 February 2017.
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Преминуо Константин Арсенови?
,
Radio Television of Serbia
, 31 January 2017.