418:(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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469:Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - ПРЕОКРЕТ Либерално демократска партија, Српски покрет обнове, Социјалдемократска унија, Богата Србија, Војвођанска партија, Демократска партија Санџака, Зелена еколошка партија - зелени, Партија Бугара Србије)
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on the LDP's electoral list, and Ostojić appeared in the 152th position (out of 250). The list won fifteen mandates, and he was not included in his party's delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual
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candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Ostojić could have been awarded a mandate despite his low position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – though in the event he was not.)
403:Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Либерално демократска партија - Грађански савез Србије - Социјалдемократска унија - Лига социјалдемократа Војводине - Чедомир Јовановић)
140:, SPS). Ostojić fell out of favour with the revamped city government; he was dismissed as director on 1 October 1997 and was fired from Studio B outright in December 1997. He subsequently formed the breakaway
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after receiving the second position; the list won four seats. He also appeared in the tenth position on the LDP list for the
Belgrade city assembly in 2012 and the fourth position on the URS list in
583:, Volume 52 Number 12 (30 April 2008), pp. 4, 16. He received the second position at the city level and the lead position at the municipal level. For the list of elected members at both levels, see
224:, SNS) formed a new administration after the election with the SPS and other parties, and the LDP continued to serve in opposition. Ostojić was critical of the new government's decision to dismiss
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434:, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 13 October 2021. Ostojić was given the 162nd position on the list, which was once again mostly alphabetical.
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Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the
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Serbia's electoral law was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The LDP contested the
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with other former Studio B journalists. With the fall of the Milošević regime in
October 2000 and the landslide victory of the opposition in the
432:Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ЛИБЕРАЛНО ДЕМОКРАТСКА ПАРТИЈА - ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ)
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in July 2012. Later in the year, he called for better relations between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo, arguing that the preamble to the
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Ostojić left the LDP parliamentary group in 2013 and formed a civic initiative called the
Belgrade Initiative. He aligned this group with the
536:Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ)
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and initially worked at Studio B from 1986 to 1993 as a journalist, editor, and presenter. He left the station in
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