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541:(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
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awarded a seat in
November 2000 after the results were finalized). Slobodan Milošević was defeated in the concurrent Yugoslavian presidential election, an event that precipitated significant changes in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. The DOS won a plurality victory overall in the parliamentary election and was able to form a coalition government with the
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division and received an automatic mandate when the list won four out of ten available seats. (By this time, half of the mandates in federal elections were assigned in numerical order. There was initially some controversy with the vote count in
Prokuplje and a neighbouring division, but Višnjić was
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in 1986, became a teacher at the
University of Niš in 1989 (focusing on war surgery), and was promoted to full professor in 2001. He has published widely in his field. Višnjić was the dean of the medical faculty from 2000 to 2012, at which point he was reassigned as the department's vice-dean for
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In June 2018, Višnjić was acquitted of all charges. After the decision, he argued that the charges against him were politically motivated and had been made in retaliation for his own accusations of improper spending against other university officials. The Court of
Appeals affirmed the verdict of
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Serbian and Montenegrin republican parliaments; only members of those republican legislatures and of the previous federal assembly were eligible to serve. Višnjić was selected as one of the DS members of the new federal parliament on 25 February.
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He subsequently left the DS amid differences with its Niš leadership. In August 2004, he joined a breakaway group called "Pure
Democracy," which comprised former DS members from the right wing of the party. He was the group's list bearer for the
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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and a unicameral legislature was created as the new country's parliament. The first members of
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Višnjić was arrested in July 2013 on suspicion of abuse of office at the
University of Niš. Shortly thereafter, he was removed from office as vice-dean. He retired from the university in 2015.
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in the parliament that followed. Višnjić was not given a seat in the republican parliament and, in
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