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Dejan Čapo
Дејан Чапо
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
2014–2016
Member of the Assembly of the Autonomous province of Vojvodina
Incumbent
Assumed office
2016
In office
2004–2008
Personal details
Political partyLeague of Social Democrats of Vojvodina

Dejan Čapo (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Чапо; born 5 February 1978) is a politician in Serbia. He is currently serving his second term in the Assembly of Vojvodina as a member of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV). He also served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2016 and leads the LSV group in the Zrenjanin municipal assembly.

Early life and career

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Čapo was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in the city and began working at the Technical Faculty in Zrenjanin in 2003. From 2008 to 2012, he was the leader of Zrenjanin's public housing corporation.[1]

Political career

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Čapo joined the LSV in his twenties and was included on the party's Together for Tolerance electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the National Assembly. He was subsequently included on the LSV's Together for Vojvodina list in the 2004 provincial election, in which half the seats were determined by a system of proportional representation. While not initially selected for his party's delegation, he received a mandate on 22 December 2004 to replace a member who had left the assembly.[3] The LSV was a part of Vojvodina's coalition government in the parliament that followed and Čapo served as a supporter of the ministry. He sought re-election in the 2008 provincial election, receiving the eighth position on the Together for Vojvodina list; the list won five mandates, and he did not serve in the sitting of the assembly that followed.[4]

He sought election to the National Assembly for a second time in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, on which he was awarded the 244th position out of 250 on a combined list of the LSV, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and other parties.[5] The list won fifteen seats, and he was not selected for a mandate. (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 the mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Čapo could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – though in fact he was not.)[6]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The LSV contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election on the coalition list of former Serbian president Boris Tadić. The list won eighteen mandates; Čapo, who received the eightieth position, was not initially elected.[7] He was, however, awarded a mandate on 10 May 2014, as the next LSV candidate on the list, following the resignation of Marinika Tepić.[8] For the next two years, he served with the LSV in opposition to Aleksandar Vučić's administration.

Čapo was awarded the twenty-third position on a coalition list that included the LSV, the LDP, and the Social Democratic Party in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.[9] The list won thirteen mandates, and he was not elected. He is currently the third LSV candidate on the list with the right to accept a mandate if another member elected for the party leaves the assembly. Čapo also received the tenth position on the LSV's list in the concurrent 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and, as the list won nine mandates, narrowly missed direct election.[10][11] He received a mandate for a second term on 24 April 2016, however, when party leader Nenad Čanak declined his election to the provincial assembly to serve another term in the National Assembly.[12] The Serbian Progressive Party and its allies won majorities in both the republic and provincial elections, and Čapo once again serves in opposition.

He has also been elected to several terms in the Zrenjanin municipal assembly, where he is the leader of the LSV group. In March 2018, he spoke against a suggestion by the municipal government to rename the city.[13]

References

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  1. ^ DEJAN ČAPO, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 September 2018.
  2. ^ Čapo received the 239th position out of 250. The list was mostly alphabetical. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године (ЗАЈЕДНО ЗА ТОЛЕРАНЦИЈУ - ЧАНАК, КАСА, ЉАЈИЋ) Archived 2017-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 9 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Convocation 2004 - 2008", Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 September 2018.
  4. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине 11. мај 2008. године, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 August 2018. Čapo's name does not appear in Convocation 2008 - 2012, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 September 2018.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Либерално демократска партија - Грађански савез Србије - Социјалдемократска унија - Лига социјалдемократа Војводине - Чедомир Јовановић) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 July 2017.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (БОРИС ТАДИЋ - Нова демократска странка - Зелени, ЛСВ - Ненад Чанак, Заједно за Србију, VMDK, Заједно за Војводину, Демократска левица Рома) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 April 2017.
  8. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 10. маја 2014. године) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 September 2018. Serbia's 2011 electoral law stipulates that, in the event of the departure from the assembly of a member elected on a coalition list, the vacant mandate will fall to the next candidate on the list from the same party. See Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Article 92) made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  9. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  10. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 4 - Ненад Чанак – Лига социјалдемократа Војводине – Дигни главу!) Archived 2021-04-19 at the Wayback Machine (2016), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 August 2018.
  11. ^ О УКУПНИМ РЕЗУЛТАТИМА ИЗБОРА ЗА ПОСЛАНИКЕ У СКУПШТИНУ АУТОНОМНЕ ПОКРАЈИНЕ ВОЈВОДИНЕ ОДРЖАНИХ 24. АПРИЛА 2016. ГОДИНЕ, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 August 2018.
  12. ^ Одлука о изменама Извештаја о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине одржаних 24. априла 2016. године, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 September 2018.
  13. ^ "'Ne damo Zrenjanin, ne igrajte se'", B92, accessed 6 March 2018, accessed 6 September 2018.
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