Ružica Igić Explained

Ružica Igić (Serbian: Ружица Игић; born 19 December 1957) is an academic and politician in Serbia. She was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2014 and has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2020. Igić is a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS).

Early life and private career

Igić was born in the village of Mošorin, Titel, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] She holds a bachelor's degree (1981), master's degree (1983), and Ph.D (1992) in biological sciences from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Science, where she continues to work as a professor. She has published extensively in the field of botany.[2]

Politician

Municipal politics

Igić has served at least two terms in the Novi Sad city assembly. She received the sixty-fourth position on a combined electoral list of the DSS and New Serbia in the 2008 Serbian local elections.[3] The list won five mandates, and she was chosen as part of her party's assembly delegation.[4] [5] (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian elections were awarded to successful parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Igić's specific list position had no bearing on her chances of election.)

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Igić received the third position on the DSS's list for Novi Sad in the 2012 local elections and was re-elected when the list won five mandates.[6] [7] Igić was vice-president of the DSS city board in Novi Sad during this time.[8]

The DSS formed an electoral alliance with Dveri in 2016. Igić received the ninth position on the combined DSS–Dveri list in the 2016 local elections; the list did not cross the electoral threshold to win any mandates.[9] [10] She was given the sixth position on the DSS-led METLA 2020 list in the 2020 local elections and was not elected when the list won three mandates.[11] [12]

Parliamentarian

Igić received the eighteenth position on the DSS's list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won twenty-one mandates.[13] A coalition government was formed after the election by the Serbian Progressive Party, the Socialist Party of Serbia, and other parties; the DSS served in opposition. She was a member of the committee on agriculture, forestry, and water management; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Cuba, Russia, and Ukraine.[14] She received the twenty-seventh position on the DSS list in the 2014 parliamentary election; the list did not cross the threshold to win any mandates.[15]

Provincial politics and further campaigns at the republic level

Igić appeared in the fourth position on the DSS–Dveri list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was not elected when the list failed to cross the electoral threshold.[16] She also appeared in the 179th position on the combined list of these parties in the concurrent 2016 parliamentary election.[17] This was too low a position for election to be a realistic prospect, and she was not returned when the list won only thirteen mandates at the republic level.

Igić received the fifth position on the METLA 2020 list in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won exactly five mandates.[18] The election was won by the Progressive Party and its allies, and the DSS serves in opposition. One of the other candidates elected on the METLA list subsequently joined the parliamentary group of the Progressive Party; since five members are needed for a parliamentary group, the DSS/METLA group ceased to exist at this time.[19] Igić is a member of the assembly committee on education and science.[20]

She also appeared in the fourteen position on the METLA 2020 list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, which was held concurrently with the provincial election.[21] The list failed to cross the electoral threshold.

References

  1. https://otvoreniparlament.rs/poslanik/7456 RUŽICA IGIĆ
  2. https://www.dbe.uns.ac.rs/redovni-profesori/ruzica-igic/ Ружица Игић
  3. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 16 (30 April 2008), p. 301.
  4. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 19 (20 May 2008), p. 333.
  5. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 23 (17 June 2008), p. 362.
  6. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 31 Number 17 (24 April 2012), p. 547.
  7. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 31 Number 22 (23 May 2012), p. 651.
  8. http://www.rtv.rs/sk/vojvodina/novi-sad/dss-novom-sadu-potrebne-fabrike_308381.html "DSS: Novom Sadu potrebne fabrike"
  9. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 35 Number 24 (13 April 2016), p. 1210.
  10. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 35 Number 26 (25 April 2016), p. 1230.
  11. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 39 Number 21 (10 June 2020), p. 518.
  12. Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 39 Number 26 (22 June 2020), p. 610.
  13. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2012.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА)
  14. http://www.parlament.gov.rs/RUŽICA_IGIĆ+.586.891.html RUŽICA dr IGIĆ
  15. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2014.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница)
  16. http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2016 Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 7 - ДВЕРИ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ – САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ – БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ)
  17. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2016-izborne-liste.php Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ)
  18. http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2020 Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 7 МЕТЛА 2020) - Изборна листа
  19. https://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana.aspx?s=sednice&id=188&t=z&j=EN Saziv 2020-, Session number: 2, Date of event: 29. 10. 2020., Minutes
  20. https://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Poslanici.aspx?id=1689&s=poslanici MD Ružica Igić
  21. https://www.danas.rs/politika/izbori-2020/ko-je-sve-na-listi-metla-2020-za-republicke-poslanike/ "Ko je sve na listi „Metla 2020“ za republičke poslanike?"