Vlatko Ratković

Vlatko Ratković (Serbian Cyrillic: Влатко Ратковић; born 25 August 1965) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2012 as a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) and is now a member of the breakaway Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS).

Early life and career

Ratković was born in Šabac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] He later moved to Ruma in the province of Vojvodina. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree.[2]

Political career

Ratković sought election to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2004 provincial election in the single-member Ruma constituency. He was defeated in the second round of voting by Srđan Nikolić of the Serbian Radical Party.

Member of the National Assembly

Ratković received the 197th position on the DS's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[3] The list won sixty-four seats. He was not initially included in his party's assembly delegation, but he received a mandate on 22 May 2007 as the replacement for another party member.[4] (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and the mandates were often distributed out of numerical order. Ratković's position on the list had no bearing on whether – or when – he received a mandate.)[5] The DS formed an unstable coalition government with the rival Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) after the election, and Ratković served as a supporter of the ministry.

The DS–DSS coalition fell apart in early 2008, and new elections were called. Ratković received the 184th position on the DS's For a European Serbia coalition list and was selected for a second term in the assembly when it won 102 seats.[6][7] The election did not produce a clear winner; after extended negotiations, the For a European Serbia alliance formed a new coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia, and Ratković again served on the government side.

Ratković chaired the legislative committee in this sitting of parliament and in this capacity played a key role in passing the Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.[8] He defended the provincial constitution against charges that it was a separatist document in 2011, arguing that it was fully consistent with the Constitution of Serbia.[9] In January 2012, he said that a central electronic database of Serbian law should be available within two years.[10]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Ratković received the ninety-seventh position on the DS's Choice for a Better Life list in the 2012 parliamentary election; the list won sixty-seven mandates, and he was not re-elected.[11] He was subsequently appointed as assistant to the provincial secretary for energy and resources in the government of Vojvodina.

Member of the Social Democratic Party

The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, with Boris Tadić setting up a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party. Ratković sided with Tadić and was accordingly dismissed from his government position on 6 February 2014; this decision was condemned by the new party.[12][13] Tadić's party contested the 2014 parliamentary election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Ratković received the forty-first position on their electoral list; the list won eighteen mandates, and he was not returned.[14] The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the SDS later in the year.

For the 2016 parliamentary election, the SDS ran in an alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. Ratković received the sixty-seventh position on their combined list and was again not returned when it won only thirteen seats.[15]

Electoral record

Provincial (Vojvodina)
2004 Vojvodina assembly election
Ruma (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds[16]
Srđan Nikolić Serbian Radical Party 4,863 33.30 8,884 64.74
Vlatko Ratković Democratic Party 1,950 13.35 4,839 35.26
Smilja Lončar Democratic Party of Serbia 1,767 12.10
Milutin Stojković Socialist Party of Serbia 1,642 11.24
Ljiljana Avramović G17 Plus 814 5.57
Steva Lazarević Together for Vojvodina 728 4.98
Milutin Živanović Strength of Serbia Movement 709 4.85
Jovan Adnađević United Peasant Party 569 3.90
Dušan Stojanac Citizens' Group: Serbian People's Movement "Svetozar Miletić" 506 3.46
Mile Dokmanović Serbian Renewal Movement 408 2.79
Julijana Golčevski Koalicija Jedna je opština Ruma
(Social Democracy of Ruma; Reformists of Vojvodina – Social Democratic Party of Ruma;
People's Peasant Party of Ruma; Workers and Pensioners Party – SRP Ruma)		 336 2.30
Milutin Trbović "Miša" New Serbia – Union of Serbs of Vojvodina 312 2.14
Total valid votes 14,604 13,723 100
Invalid ballots 602 324
Total votes casts 15,206 33.34 14,047 30.80

References
  1. VLATKO RATKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 October 2018.
  2. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка - Борис Тадић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.
  4. Информације о одржаним седницама 2007. године (22. мај 2007. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.
  5. 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.
  6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ЗА ЕВРОПСКУ СРБИЈУ - БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.
  7. 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 27 October 2018.
  8. "Vlatko Ratković: Gotov Nacrt zakona o prenosu nadležnosti na Vojvodinu", Nova srpska politička misao, 7 October 2009, accessed 27 October 2018.
  9. "Ratković: Svako slovo Statuta Vojvodine u skladu s Ustavom", Blic, 23 November 2011, accessed 27 October 2018.
  10. "RATKOVIĆ: Zakoni na jednom mestu", Danas, 3 January 2012, accessed 27 October 2018.
  11. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИЗБОР ЗА БОЉИ ЖИВОТ- БОРИС ТАДИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  12. "NDS: Poltički revanšizam pokrajinske vlade i Pajtića", Blic (Source: Beta), 2 April 2014, accessed 27 October 2018.
  13. "Vasin: Otkaz nije revanšizam, to mesto pripada DS-u", Blic (Source: Beta), 2 April 2014, accessed 27 October 2018.
  14. 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), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 April 2017.
  15. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  16. Укупни резултати избора расписаних за 19. септембар 2004. године - већински изборни систем (21 КИКИНДА I), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 March 2017.
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