Rade Bajić

Rade Bajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Бајић; born 26 September 1947) is a Serbian politician. He was a delegate in the Serbian parliament from 2001 to 2004, served on the Novi Sad city council in 2012, and was elected to several terms in the Novi Sad city assembly. Bajić is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Early life and private career

Bajić was born in the settlement of Gerzovo in the municipality of Mrkonjić Grad, in what was then the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduated economist and was at one time the president of the Borac football club in Klisa, a neighbourhood of Novi Sad.[1]

Politician

The Miloševic Years (1992–2000)

Bajić was elected to the Novi Sad city assembly in the May 1992 Serbian local elections, winning over a single opponent in the city's thirtieth division.[2] The Socialists won a landslide majority with fifty-eight out of seventy seats, and he supported the local administration in the assembly.[3]

The May 1992 vote was boycotted by several opposition parties, and widespread doubts about its legitimacy led the Serbian government to call new elections in December 1992. Bajić was re-elected for the thirtieth division as the Socialists fell to twenty-one seats overall.[4][5][6][a] The SPS formed a government with the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS) after the election, and Bajić remained a government supporter. In 1993, he was appointed as director of the public heating utility Toplana; in this capacity, he faced criticism for fuel shortages and freezing apartments during the period of sanctions against Yugoslavia.[7][8]

Bajić was re-elected for Novi Sad's thirtieth division in the 1996 Serbian local elections, in which the Socialists fell to only six seats overall.[9] The Zajedno coalition formed a new government after the election, and the Socialists moved into opposition. Bajić led the SPS group in the city assembly.[10] Despite the change in government, he continued to serve as director of Toplana until 1998; a 1997 news report identified him as the only utility director in the city who was a member of the Socialist Party.[11][12]

During the 1990s, the political landscape of Serbia and Yugoslavia was dominated by the authoritarian rule of SPS leader Slobodan Milošević and his allies. Milošević was defeated by Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) candidate Vojislav Koštunica in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election and subsequently fell from power after popular protests, a watershed moment in Serbian politics.

Bajić was elected to a fourth term in the Novi Sad assembly in the 2000 Serbian local elections, which took place concurrently with the Yugoslavian vote. The Socialists, operating in an alliance with the Yugoslav Left (JUL), increased their representation in the city assembly to ten seats but still lost to the DOS by a significant margin.[13][14] This was the last local election cycle in which candidates were elected for single-member constituencies; all subsequent local elections in Novi Sad have been held under proportional representation. Bajić again led the Socialist group in the city assembly for the term that followed.[15]

Bajić ran for Novi Sad's seventh division in the 2000 Vojvodina provincial election, which was also held concurrently with the Yugoslavian vote, and finished a distant second against the DOS's candidate.[16][17]

After the fall of Milošević (2000–20)

The Serbian government fell after Milošević's defeat in the Yugoslavian election, and a new Serbian parliamentary election was called for December 2000. Prior to the vote, Serbia's electoral laws were changed so that the entire country became a single electoral district and all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful electoral lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.[18] Bajić appeared in the ninth position on the Socialist Party's list, which was mostly alphabetical.[19] The Socialists won thirty-seven seats, and Bajić was awarded a mandate, taking his seat when the assembly convened in January 2001.[20] The DOS won a landslide victory with 176 out of 250 seats, and the Socialists served in opposition for the term that followed. Bajić chaired the assembly committee on relations with Serbs outside Serbia.[21]

Bajić was not a candidate in the 2003 parliamentary election, and his parliamentary term ended when the new assembly met in early 2004. The SPS fell to only three seats in Novi Sad in the 2004 local elections, and his term in the city assembly also came to an end in that year.[22][23][24]

From 2005 to 2010, he was the commercial manager for the Toplana utility.[25]

Bajić appeared in the thirty-eighth position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[26] The list won sixteen seats, and he was not given a mandate.[27] He later received the eighth position on the SPS's list for Novi Sad in the 2008 local elections and did not return to the assembly when the list fell below the electoral threshold for assembly representation.[28][29]

Serbia's electoral laws were again reformed in 2011, such that all mandates in elections held under proportional representation were assigned to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Bajić appeared in the thirteenth position on the SPS's list in the 2012 local elections and was not elected when the list won seven seats.[30][31] An alliance led by the Democratic Party (DS) won a narrow victory in the election and established a coalition government that included the Socialists. Bajić was appointed to the city council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) with responsibility for traffic and roads.[32] His term in office was brief. The DS-led administration lost its assembly majority later the year, and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) formed a new coalition government. Although the Socialists were part of the new administration, Bajić was dropped from the executive.[33]

He later appeared on the Socialist Party's list in the 2016 and 2020 local elections, although he was not elected on either occasion.[b]

Electoral record

Provincial (Vojvodina)

2000 Vojvodina provincial election: Novi Sad Division 7
CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Dragan MiloševićDemocratic Opposition of Serbia (Affiliation: Democratic Party)47.4763.55
Rade BajićSocialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia)30.5523.28
Milorad MirčićSerbian Radical Party?11.24
other candidates?
Total
Source: [38][39][40] All percentages listed are preliminary.

Local (Novi Sad)

2000 Novi Sad city election: Division 30?
CandidatePartyVotes%
Rade Bajić (incumbent)Socialist Party of Serbia–Yugoslav Left (Affiliation: Socialist Party of Serbia)elected
other candidates
Total
Source: [41]
1996 Novi Sad city election: Division 30 (Second Round)
CandidatePartyVotes%
Rade Bajić (incumbent)Socialist Party of Serbiaelected
Zoran ÐakovićSerbian Radical Party
Total
Source: [42][43]
December 1992 Novi Sad city election: Division 30
CandidatePartyVotes%
Rade Bajić (incumbent)Socialist Party of Serbiaelected
Srboljub BubnjevićReform Democratic Party of Vojvodina–Democratic Party
Darko RadovićSerb Democratic Party–People's Party
Zoran HajderSerbian Radical Party
Total
Source: [44][45] All candidates except Bajić are listed alphabetically.
May 1992 Novi Sad city election: Division 30
CandidatePartyVotes%
Rade BajićSocialist Party of Serbiaelected
Sretko MihajlovićSerb Democratic Party
Total
Source: [46][47] Mirčić and Šuša are listed alphabetically.

Notes

  1. ^ The SPS seat total includes one delegate elected with a dual endorsement from the Socialist Party and the Novi Sad Ecological Movement.
  2. ^ Bajić received the tenth position on the SPS's list in 2016 and was not elected when the list won seven seats.[34][35] In 2020, he appeared in the forty-ninth position and was not elected when the list won ten seats.[36][37]

References

  1. ^ Member of the City Council for Transport and Roads, Archived 2012-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, City of Novi Sad, accessed 6 July 2025.
  2. ^ Magyar Szó, 2 June 1992, p. 7.
  3. ^ Magyar Szó, 16 June 1992, p. 7.
  4. ^ Magyar Szó, 16 December 1992, p. 11.
  5. ^ Member of the City Council for Transport and Roads, Archived 2012-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, City of Novi Sad, accessed 6 July 2025.
  6. ^ Magyar Szó, 12 January 1993, p. 7.
  7. ^ Borba, 17 July 1993, p. 36.
  8. ^ Borba, 22 December 1994, p. 22.
  9. ^ Magyar Szó, 19 November 1996, p. 7.
  10. ^ Borba, 20 June 2000, p. 16.
  11. ^ Member of the City Council for Transport and Roads, Archived 2012-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, City of Novi Sad, accessed 6 July 2025.
  12. ^ Borba, 22 July 1997, p. 2.
  13. ^ Magyar Szó, 4 October 2000, p. 8.
  14. ^ Izbori, 2000. Za Odbornike Skupština Opština i Gradova, Bureau of Statistics – Republic of Serbia, pp. 46-47.
  15. ^ ODBORNICI I ODBORNICKE GRUPE, Archived 2001-09-10 at the Wayback Machine, City of Novi Sad, accessed 6 July 2025.
  16. ^ Magyar Szó, 27 September 2000, p. 4.
  17. ^ Magyar Szó, 11 October 2000, p. 5.
  18. ^ 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, Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 6 June 2021.
  19. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Социјалистичка партија Србије – Слободан Милошевић), Archived 2023-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  20. ^ PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 January 2025.
  21. ^ Детаљи о народном посланику: БАЈИЋ, РАДЕ, Archived 2003-08-02 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 July 2025.
  22. ^ Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija.
  23. ^ Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 12, 63-64; Izbori za odbornike u skupštini grada Novog Sada, "Izbori 2004". Archived from the original on 2004-09-16. Retrieved 2022-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City Electoral Commission of Novi Sad, 16 September 2004, accessed 23 July 2021.
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  26. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (11 Социјалистичка партија Србије), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  27. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 March 2017.
  28. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 16 (30 April 2008), p. 298.
  29. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 19 (20 May 2008), pp. 333-334.
  30. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 31 Number 17 (24 April 2012), p. 550.
  31. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 31 Number 22 (23 May 2012), p. 651.
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  34. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 35 Number 24 (13 April 2016), p. 1204.
  35. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 35 Number 26 (25 April 2016), pp. 1230-1.
  36. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 39 Number 21 (10 June 2020), p. 512.
  37. ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 39 Number 26 (22 June 2020), p. 2.
  38. ^ Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине одржаних 24. септембра и 8. октобра 2000. године, Archived 2021-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 July 2021; Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], Volume 11 Number 1201 (Belgrade, September 2000), p. 6.
  39. ^ Magyar Szó, 27 September 2000, p. 4.
  40. ^ Magyar Szó, 11 October 2000, p. 5.
  41. ^ Magyar Szó, 4 October 2000, p. 8.
  42. ^ Magyar Szó, 6 November 1996, p. 8.
  43. ^ Magyar Szó, 19 November 1996, p. 7.
  44. ^ Magyar Szó, 15 December 1992, p. 9.
  45. ^ Member of the City Council for Transport and Roads, Archived 2012-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, City of Novi Sad, accessed 6 July 2025.
  46. ^ Magyar Szó, 25 May 1992, p. 7.
  47. ^ Magyar Szó, 16 June 1992, p. 7.
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