Žika Gojković

Gojković was the chair of the SPO's provincial board in Vojvodina for several years and was a vice-president of the party at the republic level.[4]

He was included on the SPO's electoral lists for the 2000, 2003, and 2007 Serbian parliamentary elections, although he did not win a mandate on any of these occasions.[5] The party failed to cross the electoral threshold in 2000 and 2007. It ran in an alliance with New Serbia in 2003 and won twenty-two mandates; Gojković, who received the forty-ninth list position, could have been selected as part of his party's delegation, but he was not. (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.)[6]

For the 2008 election, the SPO joined the For a European Serbia list led by Boris Tadić's Democratic Party. Gojković received the thirty-ninth position on its list.[7] The coalition won 102 seats and, this time, he was chosen as part of his party's parliamentary group. The election did not produce a clear winner, but For a European Serbia ultimately formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia, and Gojković served as part of its parliamentary majority.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists.[8] For the 2012 parliamentary election, the SPO joined a coalition called Preokret, alternately known in English as Turnover or U-Turn. Gojković received the thirteenth position on the list and was re-elected when it won nineteen mandates.[9] He served in opposition after the election.

The SPO contested the 2014 election as part of the Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Gojković received the forty-first position on the list and was easily returned when the alliance won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[10] He received the eighty-second position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in 2016 and was re-elected when the alliance won 131 seats.[11] Following the latter election, the SPO parliamentarians sat in caucus with the Progressive Party.[12]

Several members of the SPO, including Gojković, were expelled from the party in May 2017 after recommending that longtime party leader Vuk Drašković step down from his position to become an honorary president.[13] Several of the expelled members formed the POKS in June of the same year.[14] The party was officially registered on 17 July 2017, and Gojković was chosen as its leader on 15 October. He continued to caucus with the Progressive Party, and, on being chosen as leader of the POKS, indicated his continued support of Serbian president Vučić.[15]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Gojković was a deputy member of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Brazil; and a member of its parliamentary friendship groups with France, Georgia, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States of America.[16]

In February 2020, Gojković called for the direct election of mayors and two-thirds of assembly members in Serbia's local elections.[17]

The POKS contested in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election on a coalition list with other monarchist parties called For the Kingdom of Serbia. Gojković was the list bearer, although he agreed to have Ljubinko Đurković appear ahead of him in the first position. The list narrowly missed the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.[18]