Marijan Rističević Explained

Marijan Rističević
Native Name:Маријан Ристичевић
Native Name Lang:sr
Birth Date:1 March 1958
Birth Place:Novi Karlovci, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality:Serbian
Occupation:Politician
Party:People's Peasant Party
Office:Member of Parliament

Marijan Rističević (Serbian: Маријан Ристичевић, born 1 March 1958) is a Serbian politician and leader of the People's Peasant Party. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014.[1]

Political career

He was a presidential candidate in the 2004 Serbian presidential election, when he won 0.33% of votes.[2] He was one of the candidates in the 2008 Serbian presidential election when he won only 0.45% of votes.[3] He then threw his support to Tomislav Nikolić in the second round of voting.[4] Rističević portrays himself as a colorful but uneducated peasant, and has gained notoriety in Serbian public because of that image. At one instance, he parked his tractor in front of the building of the National Assembly.[1] [5]

He has been the president of People's Peasant Party since 1990.[1] In the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election the party in coalition with Party of Serbian Unity and others won 1.79% of the total vote.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lider na traktoru. Serbian. Ilustrovana Politika. Radica Momčilović. 2007-03-27. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100130115154/http://www.politika.rs/ilustro/2358/4.htm. 2010-01-30.
  2. http://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/latinica/propisi/IzvstRezultat2k270604Lat.htm RIK, Izveštaj o rezultatima izbora za predsednika Republike održanih 13. juna 2004. godine
  3. http://www.rik.parlament.gov.rs/cirilica/propisi/Izvestaj%20RIK%20030208.htm RIK, Izveštaj o rezultatima izbora za predsednika Republike održanih 20. januara 2008. godine
  4. Web site: Marijan Rističević podržao Nikolića u drugom krugu izbor . Marijan Rističević supports Nikolic in a runoff . Naslovi.net . Serbian . 2008-01-26 . 2010-01-27.
  5. Web site: Élections présidentielles en Serbie : Tomislav Nikolić en tête. Le Courrier de la Serbie. 20 January 2008. French. . 24 January 2008.