Radivoje Milanović (; born 22 November 1965) is a former politician and administrator in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2008 and was a secretary of state in the Serbian government from 2008 to 2010. During his political career, he was a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).
Private career Milanović was general director of the public enterprise for underground coal mining in the early 2000s."Posle izdvajanja iz EPS-a bolja pekspertiva", Glas javnosti, 6 August 2003, accessed 10 September 2020. In 2007, he was listed as having a master's degree in mining and living in Despotovac.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Демократска странка – Борис Тадић), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021.
Politician Milanović ran for mayor of Despotovac in the 2006 Serbian local elections, with a combined endorsement from the DS and the Liberals of Serbia (Liberali Srbije, LS). He was defeated in the second round of voting.
He appeared in the 135th position on the DS's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Демократска странка – Борис Тадић), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021. The list won sixty-four mandates, and he was included afterward in the party's assembly delegation."НОВИ ПАРЛАМЕНТ ОД СРЕДЕ", Novosti, 10 February 2007, accessed 10 September 2022. (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 distributed out of numerical order. Milanović's position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – had no specific bearing on his chances of election.)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. After the election, the DS formed an unstable coalition government with the rival Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) and G17 Plus, and Milanović served as a government supporter. He was a member of the committee for privatization and the committee for industry.ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: МИЛАНОВИЋ, МР РАДИВОЈЕ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 September 2022.
The DS–DSS alliance collapsed in early 2008, and a new parliamentary election was held in May of that year. The DS contested the election at the head of the For a European Serbia (Za evropsku Srbiju, ZES) alliance. Milanović was included on the coalition's list and was awarded a mandate for a second term when the list won a plurality victory with 102 out of 250 mandates.He was given the 125th position on the list. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 ЗА ЕВРОПСКУ СРБИЈУ – БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2021. The overall results of the election were inconclusive, but the ZES alliance eventually formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and Milanović again served as a government supporter. He held the same committee assignments as in the previous term.ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: МИЛАНОВИЋ, МР РАДИВОЈЕ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 September 2022.
He left the assembly on 6 October 2008 and served for a time as a secretary of state in Serbia's ministry of mining and energy.11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 10 September 2022."Enormna potrošnja električne energije u Srbiji", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 10 January 2009, accessed 10 September 2022. In this role, he took part in discussions with Rio Tinto on opening a lithium mine and in negotiations with miners on health insurance payments."Rio Tinto mulls opening of Jadarite mine in Serbia", Reuters, 25 August 2009, accessed 10 September 2022."Dogovor o uplati zdravstvenog osiguranja za rudare", Radio Television of Serbia, 8 July 2009, accessed 10 September 2022. In July 2009, he said that the Kolubara coal basin would need to increase production by thirteen millions tons per year to facilitate the operation of two new thermal power plants."Za nove kopove u 'Kolubari' potrebno 700 miliona evra", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 19 July 2009, accessed 10 September 2022.
In 2010, Milanović became an engineer with Elektroprivreda Srbije.
Electoral record Municipal (Despotovac)
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