Nebojša Berić

Nebojša Berić (Serbian Cyrillic: Небојша Берић; born 19 April 1972) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2016, initially as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) and later as an independent.

Nebojša Berić
Born	(1972-04-19)April 19, 1972 Sombor, Yugoslavia
Occupation	Politician

Early life and career

Berić was born in Sombor, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a degree in electrical engineering.

Politician

Berić entered political life as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS). He appeared in the seventeenth position on that party's electoral list for the Sombor city assembly in the 2008 Serbian local elections and was given a mandate when the party won twenty-three seats.^[1][2][3] He was the SRS's nominee for municipal assembly president after the election and was defeated by Nemanja Delić of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).^[4]

The Radical party experienced a serious split later in the year, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Berić sided with the Progressives. He received the second position on the Progressive list in the 2012 local elections and was re-elected when the list won eleven mandates.^[5]

Parliamentarian

Berić was given the eighty-sixth position on the SNS's list for the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, which was held concurrently with the local elections. The list won seventy-three seats, and he was not initially elected.^[6] The SNS formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), and several of its members subsequently resigned from the assembly to take government positions. Berić received a seat on 18 September 2012 as the replacement for another party member.^[7][8] He was a deputy member of the committee for the diaspora and Serbs in the region and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Croatia, Egypt, and Slovenia.^[9]

He received the 112th position on the SNS list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.^[10] In his second term, he was a full member of the diaspora committee; a deputy member of the defense and internal affairs committee; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union; and a member of the friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, Canada, Croatia, and Germany.^[11] In 2015, he was part of the Serbian government's delegation to commemorate the twenty-year anniversary of the deaths of elderly Serb civilians in Varivode and Gošić during the Croatian army's Operation Storm.^[12]

Berić left the SNS in early 2016 and formed a new political group in Sombor called Our Villages, Our City with other former Progressives.^[13] He led the group's list for the 2016 local elections in Sombor; the list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.^[14]

References

1. Službeni List (Opštine Sombor), Volume 41 Number 5 (30 April 2008), p. 54.
2. Službeni List (Grada Sombora), Volume 1 Number 1 (4 July 2008), p. 2.
3. For the 2008 local elections, all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (2007) 2022-03-17 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021. Berić did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his list position.
4. "Funkcije pripale demokratama", Danas, 12 June 2008, accessed 14 February 2022.
5. Službeni List (Grada Sombora), Volume 5 Number 6 (25 May 2012), p. 32.
6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 ПОКРЕНИМО СРБИЈУ - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ (Српска напредна странка, Нова Србија, Асоцијација малих и средњих предузећа и предузетника Србије, Коалиција удружења избјеглица у Републици Србији, Покрет снага Србије - БК, Народна сељачка странка, Бошњачка народна странка, Демократска партија Македонаца, Ромска партија, Покрет влашког уједињења, Покрет социјалиста, Покрет привредни препород Србије)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2022.
7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 18. септембра 2012. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2022.
8. Н. ПАНТИЋ, "Дулић поводом оптужби у Скупштини: Мирно спавам", Novosti, 19 September 2012, accessed 14 February 2022.
9. NEBOJŠA BERIĆ, . Archived from the original on 2013-03-03. Retrieved 2022-02-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 3 March 2013, accessed 14 February 2022.
10. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - БУДУЋНОСТ У КОЈУ ВЕРУЈЕМО (Српска напредна странка, Социјалдемократска партија Србије, Нова Србија, Српски покрет обнове, Покрет социјалиста)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2022.
11. NEBOJŠA BERIĆ, . Archived from the original on 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2022-02-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 30 April 2016, accessed 14 February 2022.
12. "Commemorations held in two villages in tribute to Serb civilians killed in war," Croatian News Agency (HINA), 28 September 2015.
13. "Ko je vlast, a ko opozicija?", soinfo.org, 16 March 2016, accessed 14 February 2022.
14. Službeni List (Grada Sombor), Volume 9 Number 5 (13 April 2016), p. 48.