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'''Živko Vrcelj''' (; born 19 July 1959) is a medical doctor and politician in [[Serbia]]. He was a member of the [[Assembly of Vojvodina]] from 2012 to 2016 and briefly served in the [[National Assembly of Serbia]] in 2016 as a member of the [[Serbian Progressive Party]]. Vrcelj is currently the director of the [[Sremska Mitrovica]] General Hospital.
==Early life and career==
Vrcelj was raised in [[Ogulin]] in what was then the [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]] in the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]. He graduated from the [[School of Medicine, University of Zagreb|University of Zagreb School of Medicine]] in 1983 and subsequently worked as a surgeon in [[Zagreb]] and Ogulin until the outbreak of the [[Yugoslav Wars]]. From 1991 to 1995, he was a war surgeon in the [[Republika Srpska Krajina]]. He has worked in [[Sremska Mitrovica]] since 1996 and became head of the surgical department of medicine at the Sremska Mitrovica General Hospital in 2013.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2O0aKMj ŽIVKO VRCELJ], Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref>
==Political career==
Vrcelj was elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina for Sremska Mitrovica's constituency seat in the [[Vojvodina provincial election, 2012|2012 provincial election]] as a candidate of the Progressive Party's [[Let's Get Serbia Moving|Let's Get Vojvodina Moving]] coalition. The election was won by the [[Democratic Party (Serbia)|Democratic Party]] and its allies, and Vrcelj served in [[Opposition (politics)|opposition]] for the next four years. He was subsequently awarded the ninety-fourth position on the Progressive Party's ''[[Aleksandar Vučić]] — Future We Believe In'' [[electoral list]] in the [[Serbian parliamentary election, 2016|2016 Serbian parliamentary election]] and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.<ref>[https://ift.tt/1T13JIz Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ)], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.</ref>
His term in the National Assembly was brief. He resigned on 12 August 2016,<ref>[https://ift.tt/2O0aMUr Current Legislature], National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref> after being appointed to a six-month term as acting director of the Sremska Mitrovica General Hospital by the [[government of Vojvodina]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2n0IFca "Dr Živko Vrcelj,imenovan za v.d. direktora mitrovačke bolnice"], Opšte bolnice Sremska Mitrovica, 3 August 2016, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref> In January 2017, he was confirmed in the role for a four-year term.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2KjRc2Y "Dr Živko Vrcelj imenovan za direktora mitrovačke bolnice"], Opšte bolnice Sremska Mitrovica, 23 January 2017, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref>
Vrcelj was also elected to the Sremska Mitrovica municipal assembly in the [[Serbian local elections, 2016|2016 local elections]] but resigned in September 2016 following his appointment as hospital director.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2n3xuPR "Sanader novi gradonačelnik Sremske Mitrovice"], Radio Television of Vojvodina, 28 September 2016, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref>
==Electoral record==
===Provincial===
{| style="width:1000px;" class="wikitable"
|+ '''2012 Vojvodina assembly election<br>Novi Sad VII (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds'''<ref>[https://ift.tt/2O0aOM3 Резултати избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине по већинском изборном систему (36 Нови Сад VII)] (2012), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 April 2018.</ref>
|-
| align="left" | '''Živko Vrcelj'''
| align="left" | [[Let's Get Serbia Moving|Let's Get Vojvodina Moving]]
| align="right" | 11,456
| align="right" | 26.28
! align="left" |
| align="right" | 21,110
| align="right" | 58.98
|-
| align="left" | [[Goran Ivić]] (incumbent)
| align="left" | [[Choice for a Better Life|Choice for a Better Vojvodina]]
| align="right" | 8,376
| align="right" | 19.22
! align="left" |
| align="right" | 15,299
| align="right" | 42.02
|-
| align="left" | Branislav Andrijević
| align="left" | Citizens' Group – ''For Better Life in Sremska Mitrovica''
| align="right" | 7,243
| align="right" | 16.62
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Ilija Milinović
| align="left" | [[Socialist Party of Serbia]]–[[Party of United Pensioners of Serbia]]–[[United Serbia]]–[[Social Democratic Party of Serbia]]
| align="right" | 4,296
| align="right" | 9.86
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Mitar Pavlović
| align="left" | [[Democratic Party of Serbia]]
| align="right" | 4,039
| align="right" | 9.27
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Miroslav Pevac
| align="left" | [[League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina]]
| align="right" | 2,776
| align="right" | 6.37
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Dragan Banovački
| align="left" | [[Serbian Radical Party]]
| align="right" | 2,197
| align="right" | 5.04
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Milenko Perić
| align="left" | [[U-Turn (Serbian coalition)|Preokret]]
| align="right" | 1,642
| align="right" | 3.77
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Momir Đuričić
| align="left" | ''Dr. Boško Laćarac''–[[United Regions of Serbia]]–''Laćaračka inicijativa''–''Za jaku Mitrovicu''
| align="right" | 1,564
| align="right" | 3.59
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
! align="left" | Total valid votes
! align="left" |
! align="right" | 43,589
! align="right" | 100
! align="left" |
! align="right" | 36,409
! align="right" | 100
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1959 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Ogulin]]
[[Category:People from Sremska Mitrovica]]
[[Category:Members of the National Assembly of Serbia]]
[[Category:Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina]]
[[Category:Serbian Progressive Party politicians]]
==Early life and career==
Vrcelj was raised in [[Ogulin]] in what was then the [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]] in the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]. He graduated from the [[School of Medicine, University of Zagreb|University of Zagreb School of Medicine]] in 1983 and subsequently worked as a surgeon in [[Zagreb]] and Ogulin until the outbreak of the [[Yugoslav Wars]]. From 1991 to 1995, he was a war surgeon in the [[Republika Srpska Krajina]]. He has worked in [[Sremska Mitrovica]] since 1996 and became head of the surgical department of medicine at the Sremska Mitrovica General Hospital in 2013.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2O0aKMj ŽIVKO VRCELJ], Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref>
==Political career==
Vrcelj was elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina for Sremska Mitrovica's constituency seat in the [[Vojvodina provincial election, 2012|2012 provincial election]] as a candidate of the Progressive Party's [[Let's Get Serbia Moving|Let's Get Vojvodina Moving]] coalition. The election was won by the [[Democratic Party (Serbia)|Democratic Party]] and its allies, and Vrcelj served in [[Opposition (politics)|opposition]] for the next four years. He was subsequently awarded the ninety-fourth position on the Progressive Party's ''[[Aleksandar Vučić]] — Future We Believe In'' [[electoral list]] in the [[Serbian parliamentary election, 2016|2016 Serbian parliamentary election]] and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.<ref>[https://ift.tt/1T13JIz Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ)], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.</ref>
His term in the National Assembly was brief. He resigned on 12 August 2016,<ref>[https://ift.tt/2O0aMUr Current Legislature], National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref> after being appointed to a six-month term as acting director of the Sremska Mitrovica General Hospital by the [[government of Vojvodina]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2n0IFca "Dr Živko Vrcelj,imenovan za v.d. direktora mitrovačke bolnice"], Opšte bolnice Sremska Mitrovica, 3 August 2016, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref> In January 2017, he was confirmed in the role for a four-year term.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2KjRc2Y "Dr Živko Vrcelj imenovan za direktora mitrovačke bolnice"], Opšte bolnice Sremska Mitrovica, 23 January 2017, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref>
Vrcelj was also elected to the Sremska Mitrovica municipal assembly in the [[Serbian local elections, 2016|2016 local elections]] but resigned in September 2016 following his appointment as hospital director.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2n3xuPR "Sanader novi gradonačelnik Sremske Mitrovice"], Radio Television of Vojvodina, 28 September 2016, accessed 1 August 2018.</ref>
==Electoral record==
===Provincial===
{| style="width:1000px;" class="wikitable"
|+ '''2012 Vojvodina assembly election<br>Novi Sad VII (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds'''<ref>[https://ift.tt/2O0aOM3 Резултати избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине по већинском изборном систему (36 Нови Сад VII)] (2012), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 April 2018.</ref>
|-
| align="left" | '''Živko Vrcelj'''
| align="left" | [[Let's Get Serbia Moving|Let's Get Vojvodina Moving]]
| align="right" | 11,456
| align="right" | 26.28
! align="left" |
| align="right" | 21,110
| align="right" | 58.98
|-
| align="left" | [[Goran Ivić]] (incumbent)
| align="left" | [[Choice for a Better Life|Choice for a Better Vojvodina]]
| align="right" | 8,376
| align="right" | 19.22
! align="left" |
| align="right" | 15,299
| align="right" | 42.02
|-
| align="left" | Branislav Andrijević
| align="left" | Citizens' Group – ''For Better Life in Sremska Mitrovica''
| align="right" | 7,243
| align="right" | 16.62
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Ilija Milinović
| align="left" | [[Socialist Party of Serbia]]–[[Party of United Pensioners of Serbia]]–[[United Serbia]]–[[Social Democratic Party of Serbia]]
| align="right" | 4,296
| align="right" | 9.86
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Mitar Pavlović
| align="left" | [[Democratic Party of Serbia]]
| align="right" | 4,039
| align="right" | 9.27
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Miroslav Pevac
| align="left" | [[League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina]]
| align="right" | 2,776
| align="right" | 6.37
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Dragan Banovački
| align="left" | [[Serbian Radical Party]]
| align="right" | 2,197
| align="right" | 5.04
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Milenko Perić
| align="left" | [[U-Turn (Serbian coalition)|Preokret]]
| align="right" | 1,642
| align="right" | 3.77
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
| align="left" | Momir Đuričić
| align="left" | ''Dr. Boško Laćarac''–[[United Regions of Serbia]]–''Laćaračka inicijativa''–''Za jaku Mitrovicu''
| align="right" | 1,564
| align="right" | 3.59
! align="left" |
| align="right" |
| align="right" |
|-
! align="left" | Total valid votes
! align="left" |
! align="right" | 43,589
! align="right" | 100
! align="left" |
! align="right" | 36,409
! align="right" | 100
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1959 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Ogulin]]
[[Category:People from Sremska Mitrovica]]
[[Category:Members of the National Assembly of Serbia]]
[[Category:Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina]]
[[Category:Serbian Progressive Party politicians]]
August 02, 2018 at 03:48PM
