Rajko Mijović (; born 1959) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (Socijaldemokratska partija Srbije, SDPS).
Private and military career Mijović holds a Ph.D. in Military Sciences. He was an officer in the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia and oversaw the air defence missile division in the Pančevo area during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia."Dosta je bilo ratovanja", Glas javnosti, 20 September 2000, accessed 31 March 2021. He continues to live in Pančevo.Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа) , Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
Politician Early candidacies Mijović sought election to the Pančevo municipal assembly in the 2000 Serbian local elections, running in the twenty-ninth division as a candidate of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO). He was defeated by a candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS).
He sought election to the Serbian national assembly in the 2003 parliamentary election on the electoral list of Odbrana i Pravda alliance.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ОДБРАНА И ПРАВДА - ВУК ОБРАДОВИЋ И БОРИВОЈЕ БОРОВИЋ (Социјалдемократија, Народна странка Правда, Странка радника и пензионера - СРП и Социјалдемократска партија зелених)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 15 February 2021. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win any mandates. He subsequently appeared in the first position on a coalition list in Pančevo in the 2008 Serbian local elections, leading an alliance that comprised the Banat Party, the Pančevo Party, and the Vojvodina Green Party.Službeni List (Opštine Pančevo), Volume 15 Number 8 (29 April 2008), p. 11. This list, too, did not cross the threshold to win any mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Pančevo), Volume 15 Number 10 (12 May 2008), p. 2.
Social Democratic Party of Serbia Mijović subsequently joined the SDPS, which contested the 2012 provincial and local elections in Vojvodina as part of the coalition around the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS). He received the fourth position on the Socialist list in the 2012 local elections and was elected to the city assembly when the list won twelve mandates.Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 5 Number 11 (25 April 2012), p. 19.Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 5 Number 12 (7 May 2012), p. 2. He also received the seventeenth position on the Socialist-led list for the concurrent provincial election and was not elected when the list won only nine mandates.Изборна листа 8 - ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ-СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС), СОЦИЈАЛДЕМОКРАТСКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СДП Србије) - кандидати за посланике , Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 11 January 2021.
The SDPS subsequently switched its affiliation to the alliance around the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS). Mijović was given the thirty-eighth position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 provincial election and was this time elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа) , Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. He also received the tenth position on the Progressive list for the concurrent 2016 local elections in Pančevo and was re-elected when the list won a majority with thirty-nine out of seventy mandates.Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 9 Number 8 (13 April 2016), p. 3.Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 9 Number 10 (25 April 2016), p. 17. He served as president of the SDPS's board in Pančevo during this period."SDPS Pančevo: Za poboljšanje uslova za starije sugrađane", Social Democratic Party of Serbia, 14 January 2020, accessed 31 March 2021.
He did not seek re-election at either the provincial or local level in 2020.
Electoral record Municipal (Pančevo) + 2000 Pančevo municipal assembly electionPančevo XXIX – Gornji Grad II (constituency seat)Službeni List (Opśtine Pančevo), Volume 7 Number 8 (14 September 2000), pp. 9–10.Službeni List (Opśtine Pančevo), Volume 7 Number 10 (9 October 2000), p. 2. Sava Vukašinov Democratic Movement for Pančevo Goran Vuković Serbian Radical Party Savica Kolarski Democratic Opposition of Serbia elected Rajko Mijović Serbian Renewal Movement Miodrag Radojković Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left
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