Siniša Stamenković (; born 30 April 1949) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 to 2012 and is now a member of the Kladovo municipal assembly. Stamenković is a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (Partija ujedinjenih penzionera Srbije, PUPS).
Private career Stamenković is a graduated agricultural engineer.SINIŠA STAMENKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 January 2022. He has worked as the general director of the "Đerdap" fishery in Kladovo and is a specialist in caviar production."Srbija, hrana i priroda: Kladovski kavijar - crno zlato iz plavog Dunava", B92, 19 December 2021, accessed 5 January 2022.
In a 2010 interview, Stamenković indicated that he has a strong interest in astrology."Poslanički pogled u planete", Politika, 1 January 2010, accessed 5 January 2021.
Politician Parliamentarian The PUPS contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska partija, SDP), and Stamenković appeared in the 191st position on their combined electoral list.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9 Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) - Др Небојша Човић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 January 2022. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.
For the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election, the PUPS formed a new alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) Stamenković received the 211th position on the Socialist-led list and was awarded a mandate after the list won twenty seats..Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), - Партија уједињних пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Јединствена Србија (ЈС)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 July 2021.11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 January 2022. (From 2000 to 2011, all mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were distributed to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order. Stamenković's specific list position had no bearing on his chances of election.)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. The overall results of the election were initially inconclusive, but the SPS eventually joined a coalition government led by the For a European Serbia (Za evropsku Srbiju, ZES) coalition, and Stamenković served as a supporter of the administration.
Stamenković served as deputy chair of the assembly's agriculture committee during his term in parliament. He was also a member of the committee for relations with Serbs outside Serbia, a member of the committee on Kosovo and Metohija, a deputy member of the health and family committee, a deputy member of the committee on interethnic relations, a deputy member of the committee on science and technological development, and a deputy member of the poverty reduction committee. He led Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Romania (which borders on Kladovo), and was a member of the friendship groups with Israel, Tunisia, and Turkey.СИНИША СТАМЕНКОВИЋ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 December 2021.
Serbia's electoral laws were reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Stamenković was given the fifty-eighth position on the Socialist-led list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was not re-elected when the list won forty-four mandates.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (7 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 September 2021. He later received the ninety-sixth position on the SPS list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was not returned when the list again won forty-four seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (2 ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 January 2022.
After the 2014 election, the PUPS switched its affiliation from the Socialist Party to the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS). Stamenković has not sought re-election to the national assembly since this time.
Local politics Stamenković has served several terms in the Kladovo municipal assembly."SINIŠA STAMENKOVIĆ: PRIORITETI SU ENERGETIKA, TURIZAM I POLJOPRIVREDA", Timočke, 5 October 2018, accessed 5 January 2022. In the 2016 Serbian local elections, he appeared in the sixteenth position on the SNS-led list for Kladovo and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventeen out of twenty-eight mandates.РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОР ОДБОРНИКА СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ КЛАДОВО, Municipality of Kladovo, 2016. See also Oдборници, , Municipality of Kladovo, accessed 5 January 2022.
Kladovo held early local elections in 2018, and the PUPS contested the election on its own list."Izbori za odbornike SO Kladovo 16. decembra", Danas, 29 October 2018, accessed 5 January 2022."PUPS samostalno u Kladovu", Danas, 20 November 2018, accessed 5 January 2022. Stamkenović appeared in the lead position and was re-elected when the list won a single mandate.Lokalni Izbori – Republika Srbija; Lokalni Izbori 2020; Bureau of Statistics, Republic of Serbia; p. 59.
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