Goran Ćirić
Горан Ћирић
Goran Ćirić in "15 minuta", made by Južne vesti in 18.03.2016
Mayor of Niš
In office
10 November 2000 – 9 October 2004
Preceded byZoran Živković
Succeeded bySmiljko Kostić
Personal details
Born (1960-07-25) 25 July 1960
Niš, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partyDemocratic Party
(1992–2020)
Alma materUniversity of Niš

Goran Ćirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Ћирић; born July 25, 1960) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party and has led the party's parliamentary group since 2016. Ćirić was previously the mayor of Niš from 2000 to 2004.

Early life and career

Ćirić was born in Niš, at the time part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised in the city, he graduated in electronic engineering in 1984. Ćirić joined the Democratic Party in 1992, became part of its executive in 1996, and led the party in the Niš municipal assembly from 1997 to 2001.[1] In late 1999, he was involved in organizing protests against Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević.[2]

Mayor of Niš

Ćirić was elected as the mayor of Niš in late 2000, succeeding fellow Democratic Party member Zoran Živković. In December 2000, Ćirić hosted talks between Miloševiċ's newly elected successor Vojislav Koštunica and Bulgarian president Petar Stoyanov.[3]

Between 2001 and 2002, Ćirić and his Bulgarian counterparts sought to construct a highway from Niš to Sofia with funding from the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.[4] This project was indefinitely postponed in 2002 when the European Investment Bank withheld funding, stating that demand for the highway was insufficient and that the project would not quickly recoup its initial losses.[5] Notwithstanding this, Ćirić and the mayors of Sofia and Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, signed an agreement to form a euroregion centred around their communities in 2003.[6]

Ćirić was chair of the Permanent Conference of the Cities and Municipalities in Yugoslavia during his time as mayor. In early 2002, he signed an accord with a representative of the National Association of Municipalities in Bulgaria for greater cooperation between the local governments of both countries.[7] In early 2003, Ćirić reached an agreement with Radio Television of Serbia for Radio Niš to be privatized after one year of transitional funding.[8] He was defeated by Smiljko Kostić of New Serbia by a significant margin in the October 2004 municipal election.[9]

In addition to serving as mayor, Ćirić became a member of the National Assembly of Serbia following the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election. He received the forty-fourth position on electoral list of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a broad alliance that included the Democratic Party and that won a landslide majority with 176 out of 250 parliamentary mandates.[10] Ćirić was included in the alliance's parliamentary delegation and took his seat when the assembly met in early 2001.[11] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. While Ćirić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his position on the list, he was in fact included as a Democratic Party representative.)[12] The Democratic Opposition of Serbia later dissolved, and the Democratic Party contested the 2003 parliamentary election at the head of its own alliance. Ćirić received the sixty-fifth position on the list;[13] the list won thirty-seven seats, and he was not re-selected for its delegation on this occasion.[14]

Subsequent career

The government of Serbia appointed Ćirić as managing director of PTT Saobraćaja Srbija on November 2, 2007.[15] In 2009, he announced that the organization would become a closed shareholding company in state ownership.[16] He stood down from the position in 2012, following a change in government that saw the Democratic Party move into opposition.[17]

Ćirić was elected as a deputy chair of the Democratic Party in November 2012.[18]

Return to the National Assembly

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Ćirić received the eleventh position on the Democratic Party's electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and returned to the assembly after an eleven-year absence when the list won nineteen mandates.[19] He was promoted to the seventh position in the 2016 election and was declared re-elected when the list won sixteen mandates.[20] Ćirić replaced Bojan Pajtić as leader of the Democratic Party's parliamentary group in October 2016.[21] The Serbian Progressive Party has led a coalition government since 2012, and the Democratic Party has served in opposition throughout this time.

Ćirić is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate and administrative issues. He is also the head of the parliamentary friendship group for Japan and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Slovenia and the United Kingdom.[22]

Honours

Electoral record

Local (City of Niš)

2004 City of Niš local election
Mayor of Niš - First and Second Round Results[24]
Candidate Party Votes  % Votes  %
Smiljko Kostić Political Organization for Democratic Change "New Serbia"–Velimir Ilić 15,115 23.68 38,291 63.63
Goran Ćirić (incumbent) Democratic Party–Boris Tadić 18,640 29.21 21,887 36.37
Dragoljub Stamenković Serbian Radical Party–Tomislav Nikolić 8,220 12.88
Branislav Jovanović G17 Plus 6,774 10.61
Goran Ilić Democratic Party of Serbia–Vojislav Koštunica 5,356 8.39
Zoran Bojanić Strength of Serbia Movement–Bogoljub Karić 4,685 7.34
Vlastimir Đokić Socialist Party of Serbia–Tomislav Jovanović 3,692 5.78
Ljubivoje Slavković Citizens' Group: For Niš see below
Sima Radulović Citizens' Group: League for Niš see below
Total valid votes 63,824 100 60,178 100

References

  1. ↑ GORAN ĆIRIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 21 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "Serbian opposition alliance to hold rally in southeastern town on 18th August," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European - Political, 12 August 1999 (Source: Pancevo Radio in Serbo-Croat 1900 gmt 12 Aug 99); "Some 2,000 rally in major southern Serbian town," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European - Political, 26 October 1999 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1811 gmt 26 Oct 99).
  3. ↑ "Yugoslav president arrives in Nis for meeting with Bulgarian counterpart," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European - Political, 20 December 2000 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 1239 gmt 20 Dec 00).
  4. ↑ Lili Granitska, "FINANCING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SOFIA-NIS HIGHWAY TO BE SOUGHT FROM THE STABILITY PACT," Bulgarian News Agency, 27 September 2001.
  5. ↑ Lili Granitska, "Sofia-Nis Motorway Project Put Off Indefinitely," Bulgarian News Agency, 1 March 2002.
  6. ↑ "Sofia, Skopje, Nis to Create Euro-Region in Fall," Bulgarian News Agency, 22 February 2002; "Bulgaria, Macedonia, FR Yugoslavia to Establish Euroregion of Cooperation," Bulgarian News Agency, 26 October 2002; "Mayors of Sofia, Nis, Skopje Sign Agreement on Euro-Balkan Region's Status," Bulgarian News Agency, 21 September 2003.
  7. ↑ "Bulgarian, Yugoslav Municipality Associations Sign Cooperation Agreement," Bulgarian News Agency, 15 February 2002.
  8. ↑ "Mayor says city to finance Nis radio for one year before its sale," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 23 February 2003 (Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1303 gmt 23 Feb 03).
  9. ↑ "Serbian local polls: NGO says DS winning in Belgrade, NS in Nis, SRS in Novi Sad," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 3 October 2004 (Source: Radio B92, Belgrade, in Serbian 1925 gmt 3 Oct 04). This source indicates that Kostić defeated Ćirić by a margin of 62.8% to 35.6%.
  10. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска опозиција Србије – др Војислав Коштуница (Демократска странка, Демократска странка Србије, Социјалдемократија, Грађански савез Србије, Демохришћанска странка Србије, Нова Србија, Покрет за демократску Србију, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Реформска демократска странка Војводине, Коалиција Војводина, Савез војвођанских Мађара, Демократска алтернатива, Демократски центар, Нова демократија, Социјалдемократска унија, Санxачка демократска партија, Лига за Шумадију, Српски покрет отпора – Демократски покрет) Archived 2018-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 30 March 2017.
  11. ↑ GORAN ĆIRIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 21 August 2017.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА - БОРИС ТАДИЋ) Archived 2017-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 30 March 2017.
  14. ↑ 27 January 2004 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 August 2017.
  15. ↑ "Serbian government appoints directors of public companies," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 2 November 2007.
  16. ↑ "Tandem Financial - Serbian Daily Report - Oct 12, 2009," South East Europe News Digest, 13 October 2009.
  17. ↑ Goran Ćirić, www.istinomer.rs, accessed 30 March 2017.
  18. ↑ "New leader vows to reform opposition party, draft plan for Serbia's recovery," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 26 November 2012 (Source: Radio B92 text website, Belgrade, in English 26 Nov 12).
  19. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СА ДЕМОКРАТСКОМ СТРАНКОМ ЗА ДЕМОКРАТСКУ СРБИЈУ) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 30 March 2017.
  20. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ЗА ПРАВЕДНУ СРБИЈУ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА (НОВА, ДСХВ, ЗЗС)) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 30 March 2017.
  21. ↑ "Ćirić ZAMENIO PAJTIĆA u Skupštini Srbije, na čelu poslanika DS", Blic, 3 October 2016, accessed 30 March 2017.
  22. ↑ Goran Ciric, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 August 2017.
  23. ↑ "令和3年春の外国人叙勲 受章者名簿" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
  24. ↑ ЛОКАЛНИ ИЗБОРИ 2004, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-11-22. Retrieved 2021-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), City of Niš, 22 November 2004, accessed 23 December 2021 [preliminary results for the first round]; Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2004; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; pp. 11, 46 [final results for the first round]. The latter source indicates that Slavković and Radulović received a combined total of 1,342 votes (2.10%) but does not break down the results for each candidate. The former source provides the following information: Slaković 688 votes (1.13%), Radulović 557 votes (0.92%).
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