Dragan Milovanović (; born 17.6.1953) is a Serbian politician. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 1997 to 2001 and was the mayor of Podujevo for a time in the 1990s. For most of his political career, Milovanović was a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS).
Early life and career Milovanović was born to a Kosovo Serb family in Podujevo, in what was then the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija in the People's Republic of Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a Bachelor of Laws degree.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Лесковац), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.Velika Srbija [Serbian Radical Party newspaper], Number 135 (Belgrade 1996), p. 3.
Politician Early candidacies at the federal and republican levels In the 1990s, Serbian and Yugoslavian politics were dominated by the authoritarian role of Slobodan Milošević, leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). Most Kosovo Albanians boycotted Serbian political institutions throughout the decade, and as a result the institutions were dominated by the Serb community.
Milovanović ran for the national assembly in the 1990 Serbian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in the Podujevo division. He was defeated by Zoran Paunović of the SPS, the only other candidate on the ballot. The Serbian Radical Party was founded in 1991, and Milovanović became a member of the organization.
The first elections for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's Chamber of Citizens were held in May 1992 under a system of mixed proportional representation. Milovanović received the thirty-second position on the SRS's electoral list and was not elected when the list won twenty-three seats.Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 48 Number 33 (27 May 1992), p. 2187.Službeni List (Savezne Republike Jugoslavije), Volume 1 Number 9 (5 June 1992), pp. 137-141.
Subsequent to the May 1992 vote, all Serbian and Yugoslavian parliamentary elections were held under full proportional representation. Milovanović appeared in the ninth position on the SRS's list for Leskovac in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election and the tenth position in the 1993 Serbian parliamentary election. The Radicals won eight seats in the division in 1992 and three in 1993, and he did not receive a mandate on either occasion.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Лесковац) and Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (4 Лесковац) and Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 19. и 26. децембра 1993. године и 5. јануара 1994. године, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 July 2021.Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), 25 January 1993 (Volume 49 Number 7), p. 194.Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 50 Number 11 (25 January 1994), p. 194. (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of sponsoring parties or coalitions. Milovanović could have been awarded a mandate in either 1992 or 1993 despite his relatively low list positions, but he was not.)Guide to the Early Election , Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
Milovanović appeared in the lead position on the SRS's list for Kosovska Mitrovica in the 1996 Yugoslavian parliamentary election and would have been automatically elected had the list won any mandates. Instead, the Socialist Party's list won all three seats in the division.ИЗБОРИ '96: ВЕЋЕ ГРАЂАНА САВЕЗНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1996), p. 61.
Mayor of Podujevo Milovanović served as mayor of Podujevo after the May 1992 and December 1992 Serbian local elections.Službeni Glasnik (Republika Srbije), Volume 49 Number 11 (8 February 1993), p. 380.Službeni Glasnik (Republika Srbije), Volume 49 Number 17 (3 March 1993), p. 595. The Radical Party's 1996 campaign literature indicates that the Socialist Party succeeded in bringing down his local administration during his second term.
Parliamentarian Milovanović was given the third position on the Radical Party's list for Priština in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election and received a mandate after the list won four seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (28 Приштина), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021.PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 12 January 2022. The SRS joined a coalition government led by the Socialist Party of Serbia in March 1998, and Milovanović served as a supporter of the administration. In late 1998, he was appointed as the Radical Party's acting chair for Kosovo."Radical leader has Priština University dean dismissed," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political, 12 December 1998 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1643 gmt 12 Dec 98).
Serbia lost effective control over most of Kosovo, including Podujevo, after the Kosovo War and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Vojislav Koštunica of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) defeated Slobodan Milošević in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed moment in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. Serbia's government fell in October 2000, the Radical Party moved into opposition, and a new Serbian parliamentary election was held in December 2000. Before the vote, Serbia's electoral laws were reformed such that the entire country became a single electoral division and all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.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. Milovanović was given the twenty-ninth position on the Radical Party's list.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 Српска радикална странка – др Војислав Шешељ), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 July 2021. The list won twenty-three seats, and he did not receive a mandate for a second term.PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 29 December 2001.
An individual named Dragan Milovanović became the leader of the cultural organization "Sveti Sava" in 2014 and organized an event with Radical Party leader Vojislav Šešelj in December of the same year. It is unclear if this is the same person."Kozaci se poklonili Šešelju", Vesti Online, 8 December 2014, accessed 17 September 2023.
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