Miljan Damjanović
Serbian politician
Miljan Damjanović
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Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia | |
In office
3 June 2016 – 3 August 2020 |
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1984
Prizren , SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia |
Political party | Serbian Radical Party |
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Miljan Damjanović ( Serbian Cyrillic : Миљан Дамјановић ; born 1984) is a politician in Serbia . He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party .
Early life and career
Damjanović was born in Prizren , Kosovo , in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . He is a graduate economist. [1]
Political career
Damjanović joined the Radical Party in 2003 and was elected as a municipal official in Stari Grad , Belgrade in 2008. He subsequently became the leader of the Radical Party organization in Belgrade and a member of the party's national presidency. He announced a coalition government in Stari Grad in 2016 that included the Radical Party, its traditional ideological rival the Democratic Party , and other groups. [2]
In 2011, Damjanović took part in a protest against the arrest and extradition of Ratko Mladić . He was quoted as saying, "[His arrest] is an act of treason by the regime. It proved that this country is not free. He's a hero." [3]
Damjanović received the ninety-second position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and the thirty-first position in the 2014 election . The party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the National Assembly on either occasion. [4] He was promoted to the eighth position on the Radical list for the 2016 election and was elected when the party won twenty-two mandates. [5]
Damjanović is a member of the parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija ; a deputy member of the European integration committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Belarus , China , and Russia . [6] He is also a substitute member of the Serbian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and is an alternate delegate on the PACE committee on social health and sustainable development. [7]
Damjanović announced in March 2017 that the Radical Party would send an international parliamentary delegation to Crimea to mark the three-year anniversary of the area's de facto joining of the Russian Federation . [8]
References
- ↑ MILJAN DAMJANOVIĆ , Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ↑ SRS: Mi i DS smo šok, a pregovori Vučića i Jovanovića ne? , B92 (Source: Tanjug ), 13 May 2016, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ↑ Chris Bryant and Neil MacDonald, "Clashes with police as Mladic loyalists take to streets," Financial Times , 30 May 2011, p. 08.
- ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
- ↑ Miljan Damjanovic , National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ↑ Miljan DAMJANOVIĆ , Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 11 April 2017.
- ↑ "Serbian Lawmaker Delegation to Visit Crimea in March - Serbian Radical Party Official," Sputnik News Service , 13 March 2017.