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Popović ran for the Kikinda constituency seat in the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]’s Council of Citizens in the [[May 1992 Yugoslavian parliamentary election|May 1992 parliamentary election]] and finished third against [[Serbian Radical Party]] (SRS) candidate [[Branislav Blažić]], brother of Milorad Blažić. |
Popović ran for the Kikinda constituency seat in the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]’s Council of Citizens in the [[May 1992 Yugoslavian parliamentary election|May 1992 parliamentary election]] and finished third against [[Serbian Radical Party]] (SRS) candidate [[Branislav Blažić]], brother of Milorad Blažić. |
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He was given the twenty-fourth position (out of twenty-eight) on the Socialist Party’s [[electoral list]] for [[Zrenjanin]] in the [[1992 Serbian parliamentary election]].<ref>[http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Зрењанин)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032416/http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php |date=2021-04-22 }}, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.</ref> The list won eight seats, and he was not included in his party’s delegation for the new assembly.<ref>[http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032416/http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php |date=2021-04-22 }}, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.</ref> |
He was given the twenty-fourth position (out of twenty-eight) on the Socialist Party’s [[electoral list]] for [[Zrenjanin]] in the [[1992 Serbian parliamentary election]].<ref>[http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Зрењанин)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032416/http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php |date=2021-04-22 }}, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.</ref> The list won eight seats, and he was not included in his party’s delegation for the new assembly.<ref>[http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године)], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422032416/http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-1992.php |date=2021-04-22 }}, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.</ref> |
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(From 1992 to 2000, Serbia’s electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties.<ref>[http://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/el00002.pdf Guide to the Early Election] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116211426/https://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/el00002.pdf |date=2022-01-16 }}, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the [[International Foundation for Electoral Systems]], accessed 14 July 2017.</ref> Popović could have been given a mandate despite his list position, although in the event he was not.) |
(From 1992 to 2000, Serbia’s electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties.<ref>[http://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/el00002.pdf Guide to the Early Election] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220116211426/https://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/el00002.pdf |date=2022-01-16 }}, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the [[International Foundation for Electoral Systems]], accessed 14 July 2017.</ref> Popović could have been given a mandate despite his list position, although in the event he was not.) |
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Popović was elected to the Kikinda municipal assembly in the [[December 1992 Serbian local elections]], which were held concurrently with the parliamentary vote. The Socialists won a landslide majority victory with forty out of fifty-one seats, and he was chosen as mayor when the assembly convened on 18 January 1993.<ref>”Magyar Szó”, 5 January 1993, p. 6.</ref><ref>”Borba”, 19 January 1993, p. 9.</ref> The local SPS’s divisions continued in the years that followed, however, and Popović was removed as mayor on 30 July 1996, having lost the support of several delegates from his own party.<ref>”Magyar Szó”, 31 July 1996, p. 4.</ref> |
Popović was elected to the Kikinda municipal assembly in the [[December 1992 Serbian local elections]], which were held concurrently with the parliamentary vote. The Socialists won a landslide majority victory with forty out of fifty-one seats, and he was chosen as mayor when the assembly convened on 18 January 1993.<ref>”Magyar Szó”, 5 January 1993, p. 6.</ref><ref>”Borba”, 19 January 1993, p. 9.</ref> The local SPS’s divisions continued in the years that followed, however, and Popović was removed as mayor on 30 July 1996, having lost the support of several delegates from his own party.<ref>”Magyar Szó”, 31 July 1996, p. 4.</ref> |
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Rajko Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Рајко Поповић) is a Serbian journalist and former politician. He was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Komuna for several years, served as mayor of Kikinda on two occasions, and was a member of the presidency of the Vojvodina provincial section of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SSRNJ) in 1989–90. When the Socialist Alliance ceased to exist, he joined the successor Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).
Popović was appointed as editor of the local Kikinda newspaper Komuna in early 1988 and served in this role for several years.[1]
He was president of the publishing council for the newspaper Dnevnik for a time but resigned in February 1990, complaining that he was constantly outvoted at council meetings.[2] He criticized the founding of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vojvodina at around the same time, saying that it created the danger of splitting the Association of Journalists of Yugoslavia in Vojvodina.[3]
Popović was placed on a list of persons who could not obtain visas for European Union (EU) countries on 1 March 2000, on the grounds of his connections with Slobodan Milošević‘s government. He was still the editor of Komuna at the time of this announcement.[4]
In the 1988, Popović took part in Vojvodina’s so-called anti-bureaucratic revolution, in which allies of Slobodan Milošević won control of the Vojvodina government and the League of Communists of Vojvodina (LSV). Popović led the SSRNJ board in Kikinda during this time and served his first term as the municipality’s mayor in 1989.[5]
He was elected to the presidency of the Socialist Alliance in Vojvodina in December 1989 and served in this role until the party’s dissolution the following year.[6] He was a frequent critic of the newspaper Borba in this period, describing some articles in the paper as “anti-Serbian.”[7][8] At the Socialist Alliance’s final provincial conference in June 1990, he delivered a talk on the future of media operations in Vojvodina.[9]
The Socialist Alliance merged with the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1990 to form the Socialist Party of Serbia, and Popović became the leader of the new party’s municipal board in Kikinda.[10] The local branch of the party experienced serious divisions in the early 1990s, with Popović, Milorad Blažić, and Dušan Latinović leading rival factions.[11]
Popović ran for the Kikinda constituency seat in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia‘s Council of Citizens in the May 1992 parliamentary election and finished third against Serbian Radical Party (SRS) candidate Branislav Blažić, brother of Milorad Blažić.
He was given the twenty-fourth position (out of twenty-eight) on the Socialist Party’s electoral list for Zrenjanin in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election.[12] The list won eight seats, and he was not included in his party’s delegation for the new assembly.[13][14]
(From 1992 to 2000, Serbia’s electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties.[15] Popović could have been given a mandate despite his list position, although in the event he was not.)
Popović was elected to the Kikinda municipal assembly in the December 1992 Serbian local elections, which were held concurrently with the parliamentary vote. The Socialists won a landslide majority victory with forty out of fifty-one seats, and he was chosen as mayor when the assembly convened on 18 January 1993.[16][17] The local SPS’s divisions continued in the years that followed, however, and Popović was removed as mayor on 30 July 1996, having lost the support of several delegates from his own party.[18]
In the 2004 Serbian local elections, Popović led an independent electoral list in Kikinda called For Kikinda in Serbia.[19] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win any mandates in the local assembly.[20]
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| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branislav Blažić | Serbian Radical Party | 20,067 | 27.10 | |
| Bálint Antal | Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians | 18,868 | 25.48 | |
| Rajko Popović | Socialist Party of Serbia | 12,336 | 16.66 | |
| Jandrija Lukač | League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia | 4,258 | 5.75 | |
| Ivan Glavaški | Citizens’ Group | 4,099 | 5.54 | |
| Mirko Knežević | Citizens’ Group | 3,563 | 4.81 | |
| Branislav Knežević | Citizens’ Group | 2,890 | 3.90 | |
| Đuro Popeskov | Citizens’ Group | 2,359 | 3.19 | |
| Milan Ivošević | People’s Party | 2,143 | 2.89 | |
| Miklós Maróti | Citizens’ Group | 1,963 | 2.65 | |
| Rudolf Czegledi | Citizens’ Group | 1,501 | 2.03 | |
| Total | 74,047 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: [21] | ||||
- ^ Borba, 30 August 1988, p. 10.
- ^ Borba, 3 February 1990, p. 15.
- ^ Borba, 18 January 1990, p. 12.
- ^ “Prosireni spisak lica koja ne mogu dobiti vize za zemlje EU”, B92, Archived 2022-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, B92, 1 March 2000, accessed 15 November 2025.
- ^ Borba, 20 October 1989, p. 6.
- ^ Borba, 8 December 1989, p. 5.
- ^ Borba, 12 March 1990, p. 2.
- ^ Borba, 7 March 1990, p. 3.
- ^ Borba, 12 June 1990, p. 3.
- ^ Borba, 11 April 1991, p. 9.
- ^ Borba, 21 July 1993, p. 14.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 Зрењанин), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 20. и 27. децембра 1992. године и 3. јануара 1993. године), Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Republike Srbije), Volume 49 Number 7 (25 January 1993), pp. 193-194.
- ^ Guide to the Early Election Archived 2022-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017.
- ^ Magyar Szó, 5 January 1993, p. 6.
- ^ Borba, 19 January 1993, p. 9.
- ^ Magyar Szó, 31 July 1996, p. 4.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Kikinda), Volume 39 Number (8 September 2004), p. 156.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Kikinda), Volume 39 Number 13 (21 September 2004), p. 167.
- ^ ИЗБОРИ ’92: КОНАЧНИ РЕЗУЛТАТИ, Republic of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1992), p. 20.
