Slobodan Škorić (; born 3 February 1954) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 1997 to 2000 as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia.
Private career Škorić is a graduated political scientist.Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине одржаних 3. и 17. новембра 1996. године, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 April 2017.
Politician Škorić was elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 1996 provincial election for Bačka Palanka's first constituency.Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине одржаних 3. и 17. новембра 1996. године, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 April 2017.Saziv 1997 - 2000, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 24 July 2021. The Socialist Party won a majority victory. When the assembly convened on 9 January 1997, Škorić was chosen as one of its three deputy speakers."New Vojvodina Parliament Meets, Elects Speaker," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring Service: Central Europe & Balkans, 11 January 1997 (Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English, 1536 gmt 9 Jan 97). He was not re-elected in the 2000 provincial election.
He was the Socialist Party's candidate for mayor of Bačka Palanka in the 2004 Serbian local elections and was defeated by Dragan Bozalo of the Serbian Radical Party in the second round. He was later included on the Socialist Party's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in the 245th position out of 250.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021. The list won sixteen mandates, and he was not included in the party's assembly delegation.14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Škorić could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position on the list, which was in any event mostly alphabetical.)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.
Škorić appeared in the lead position on the Socialist Party's list for Bačka Palanka in the 2008 Serbian local elections.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 8 (30 April 2008)k p. 6. The list won five mandates, though he did not subsequently take a seat in the local assembly.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 11 (28 May 2008), pp. 6-7Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 12 (5 June 2008), pp. 1-2.For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (2007), Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021. Škorić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of leading the list. This notwithstanding, he represented the party in negotiations around forming the city's coalition government. He initially led the Socialists into an alliance led by the Serbian Radical Party, and in November 2018 he helped to form a new government led by the Democratic Party."Dragan Bozalo ponovo predsednik opštine Bačka Palanka?", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 28 May 2008, accessed 12 July 2021."Bačka Palanka - kao da je „Brza" Palanka", Radio-Television of Vojvodina, 3 June 2008, accessed 12 July 2021.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 12 (5 June 2008), p. 7."Nova opštinska vlast u Bačkoj Palanci", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 3 November 2008, accessed 24 July 2021. (The Radicals returned to office in a coalition without the Socialists in 2010.)"Izborna klackalica u Bačkoj Palanci", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 19 April 2010, accessed 12 July 2021.
In November 2010, Škorić helped to bring several local members of the Strength of Serbia Movement into the Socialist Party."Deo članstva PSS pristupio SPS-u", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 11 November 2010, accessed 24 July 2021.
He remains a member of the Socialist Party's executive board in Bačka Palanka as of 2021.Извршни одбор општинског одбора, Socialist Party of Serbia – City Board of Bačka Palanka, accessed 24 July 2021.
Electoral record Municipal (Bačka Palanka) + 2004 Bačka Palanka municipal electionMayor of Bačka PalankaThe first round results are copied in Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 15, Number 1969 (Bačka Palanka, October 2004), p. 3. The fact that Bozalo won the election in the second round is confirmed by ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ: Председници општина и градова, изабрани на локалним изборима, 2004., , Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 3 October 2010, accessed 12 July 2021. Dragan Bozalo Serbian Radical Party 4,952 27.94 6,233 51.16 Slobodan Škorić Socialist Party of Serbia 2,717 15.33 5,951 48.84 Jovan Palalić Democratic Party of Serbia 2,645 14.92 Kosta Stakić Democratic Party 2,503 14.12 Milutin Rujević Strength of Serbia Movement 1,733 9.78 Goran Milošev New Serbia 951 5.37 Slobodan Stojnović Serbian Renewal Movement 911 5.14 Bogoljub Trkulja Citizens' Group 740 4.17 Tatjana Drobac Christian Democratic Party of Serbia 573 3.23 Total valid votes 17,725 100 12,184 100
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