Aleksandar Marković (politician)

Aleksandar Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Марковић; born 22 May 1981) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Marković was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate economist.[1]

Political career

Municipal

Marković entered political life as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, serving as a party representative in the municipal assembly of Vračar in 2004.[2] The Radicals experienced a significant split in 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Marković sided with the Progressives and continued to serve in municipal politics under the new party's banner. He has been chair of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Communities of the Municipality of Vračar, and from 2008 to 2009 he was a member of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade.[3]

Member of the National Assembly

Marković received the 110th position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won seventy-three mandates, and he did not serve in the parliament that followed.[4]

In the 2014 parliamentary election, Marković received the 125th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list.[5] The list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates, and Marković was elected to his first term in the assembly. He was promoted to the nineteenth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[6]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Marković was a member of the defence and internal affairs committee, the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, the committee on Kosovo-Metohija, and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the social services control committee and the committee on constitutional and legislative issues; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Lesotho and Moldova; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Djibouti, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Indonesia, Iraq, Malawi, Micronesia, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, the State of Palestine, the Philippines, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[7] He was also appointed as a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he has caucused with the European People's Party. Since 2016, he has been an alternate member of the committee on culture, science, education, and media.[8]

He received the thirty-second position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[9] and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

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References
  1. ALEKSANDAR MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 November 2017.
  2. Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], September 2005, p. 4.
  3. ALEKSANDAR MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 November 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  6. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. ALEKSANDAR MARKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  8. Aleksandar MARKOVIĆ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 9 July 2020.
  9. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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