Bajro Gegić

Bajro Gegić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бајро Гегић; born December 15, 1954) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bosniak community. He was a member of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (Stranka demokratske akcije Sandžaka; SDA) for many years and has served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia. Gegić is also a member of the Bosniac National Council.

Early life and private career

Gegić was born in Tutin, in the Sandžak region of what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised and educated in the town of his birth, he graduated in the field of science and mathematics, worked as a professor for more than twenty-three years, and after this became an education inspector in the Tutin municipality.[1]

Political career

Gegić was appointed as deputy mayor of Tutin in 2004 and served as the town's mayor from 2008 to 2012. From 2005 to 2008, he was a state secretary in Serbia's education ministry.[2] He appeared on the List for Sandžak alliance's electoral list in both the 2007 and 2008 Serbian parliamentary elections, but he was not chosen as part of its parliamentary delegation on either occasion. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates.)[3]

Member of 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. The SDA ran its own electoral list in the 2012 parliamentary election, and Gegić was given the second position. The party won two seats, and he served as an opposition member in the assembly for the next two years.[4] He was dropped to the ninth position for the 2014 election and, as the party won only three seats, was not returned.[5] Gegić served on the presidency of the SDA during this time, although he stood down from the position in January 2015.[6]

He returned to parliament soon after the 2016 parliamentary election, in which he received the fourth position on the SDA's list.[7] The list won only two seats, but party leader Sulejman Ugljanin resigned shortly after the election, and Minela Kalender, the third candidate on the list, declined to serve. As a result, Gegić was awarded the vacant mandate on August 11, 2016.[8][9] He is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on constitutional and legislative issues and a deputy member of the health and family committee and the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society. The SDA serves in a parliamentary grouping with the Liberal Democratic Party, and Gegić once again serves as an opposition member.[10]

Gegić was expelled from the SDA in February 2020 on the grounds that he had violated the party's statute and program, and that he was organizing a municipal electoral list separate from the party.[11]

He is not seeking re-election in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.

Member of the Bosniac National Council

Gegić was awarded the second position on Ugljanin's "For Bosniak Unity" list in the 2014 elections to the Bosniac National Council.[12] The list won a majority with nineteen out of thirty-five seats on the council, and Gegić has served since this time as a council member.[13]

References
  1. BAJRO GEGIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 February 2017.
  2. BAJRO GEGIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 February 2017.
  3. 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. Gegić received the thirteenth list position in 2007 and the eleventh in 2008. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Коалиција Листа за Санџак др Сулејман Угљанин) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 May 2017; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (БОШЊАЧКА ЛИСТА ЗА ЕВРОПСКИ САНЏАК - ДР СУЛЕЈМАН УГЉАНИН) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 May 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Странка демократске акције Санџака - др Сулејман Угљанин Stranka demokratske akcije Sandzaka - dr. Sulejman Ugljanin) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 May 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СДА Санџака - др Сулејман Угљанин SDA Sandzaka - dr. Sulejman Uglјanin) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  6. "Senior officials of the SDA resigned: Baćićanin, Gusinac, Gegić and Salihovic", Sandžak Press, 10 January 2015.
  7. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (SDA Sandžaka – Dr. Sulejman Ugljanin СДА Санџака – Др Сулејман Угљанин) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  8. Gegić umjesto Ugljanina u Skupštini Srbije Archived 2017-10-14 at the Wayback Machine, Sandžačke novine, 10 August 2016, accessed 5 Mat 2017.
  9. Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 10. августа 2016. године) Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 5 May 2017.
  10. BAJRO GEGIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 May 2017.
  11. S. Novosel, "Poslanik Gegić isključen iz SDA Sandžaka", Danas, 21 February 2020, accessed 16 June 2020. As of 16 June 2020, the National Assembly continues to list him as a member of the SDA.
  12. Избори за чланове националног савета бошњачке националне мањине, одржани 26. октобра и 2. новембра 2014. године непосредни избори ("ЗА БОШЊАЧКО ЈЕДИНСТВО - др Сулејман Угљанин" "ZA BOSNJACKO JEDINSTVO - dr. Sulejman Ugljanin") Archived 2017-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 May 2017.
  13. VIJEĆNICI Archived 2017-05-16 at the Wayback Machine, Bošnjačko nacionalno vijeće (Bosniac National Council), accessed 5 May 2017.
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