Marina Toman

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Marina Toman (Serbian Cyrillic: Марина Томан; born 6 June 1972) is a politician in Serbia. She was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2012, serving with the far-right Serbian Radical Party. She subsequently left the Radicals and joined the Serbian Progressive Party. Toman is now the commissioner for the South Banat District in Vojvodina.

Early life and career[edit]

Toman was born in Kovačica, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics in 1999.[1]

Politician[edit]

Member of the National Assembly[edit]

Toman received the twenty-fourth position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election[2] and was awarded a mandate after the list won eighty-one seats.[3] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Toman's numerical position on the list had no official bearing on her election.)[4] While the Radicals won more seats than any other party in this election, they fell well short of a majority and ultimately served in opposition.

She was once again given the twenty-fourth position on the party's list in the 2008 parliamentary election[5] and received a mandate for a second term when the party won seventy-eight seats.[6] While the results of this election were initially inconclusive, a new government was ultimately formed by the Democratic Party, the Socialist Party of Serbia, and other parties, and the Radicals continued in opposition. The party experienced a serious split later in 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party. Toman initially remained with the Radicals and was given a more prominent role in the party's activities.[7]

In September 2009, the Serbian government accepted an amendment proposed by Toman for the country's new law on media. This amendment allowed the government to gain the support of a different opposition group (the Liberal Democratic Party) and – while this was not Toman's intention – remain in power after winning a key vote in the assembly.[8]

She was chosen as a Radical Party deputy secretary in April 2010.[9] In September of the same year, she was appointed to the assembly's culture and information committee.[10]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Toman was given the eighteenth position on the Radical Party's list for the 2012 parliamentary election.[11] The party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

Provincial representative and Commissioner of South Banat[edit]

Toman subsequently left the Radicals and joined the Progressive Party. She received the tenth position on the party's list for the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2020 provincial election[12] and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with seventy-six out of 120 mandates.

Her term in the provincial assembly was brief. On 10 September 2020, she was appointed by the government of Serbia as commissioner of the South Banat District.[13] As she could not hold a dual mandate, she resigned from the provincial assembly on 21 September.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ MARINA TOMAN, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 20 January 2021. This page incorrectly states that Toman was first elected to the national assembly in 2003. In fact, she was not a candidate in that year's election.
  2. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 20 January 2021.
  3. ^ 14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 January 2021.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 20 January 2021.
  6. ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Radical leader wants new image for party", B92, 26 September 2009, accessed 20 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Томан: Нисам спасила Владу", Novosti, 2 September 2009, accessed 20 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Martinović novi potpredsednik SRS-a", Radio Television of Serbia, 23 April 2010, accessed 20 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Skupština popunila odbore novim članovima", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 30 September 2010, accessed 20 January 2021.
  11. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 20 January 2021.
  12. ^ Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021.
  13. ^ "Marina Toman je nova načelnica Južnobanatskog upravnog okruga", 013info.rs, 14 September 2020, accessed 20 January 2021.
  14. ^ Službeni List (Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine), Volume 71 Number 56 (29 October 2020), p. 1561.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marina_Toman&oldid=1120675790"