Milenko Jovanov

Milenko Jovanov (Serbian Cyrillic: Миленко Јованов; born 13 September 1980) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2020 and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in 2020. Jovanov is a vice-president of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Milenko Jovanov
Миленко Јованов
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
3 August 2020
Personal details
Born (1980-09-13) 13 September 1980
Kikinda, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partyDemocratic Party of Serbia (2011–2015)
Serbian Progressive Party (2015–present)
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade

Personal life

Jovanov was born in 1980 in Kikinda, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Belgrade.[1]

Political career

Jovanov joined the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) in 2001. He held several leadership positions in the DSS, including president of the party's provincial board in Vojvodina and vice-president of the party at the republic level.[2] He received the fourth position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected to the assembly when the list won four mandates.[3][4] He resigned from the DSS in 2015 and subsequently joined the Progressive Party.[5][6]

He received the eleventh position on the Progressive Party's coalition list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected to a second term when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three mandates.[7] In the 2016–20 sitting of the assembly, he served as president of the Progressive Party's deputies' group, was vice-president of the committee on issues on the constitutional and legal status of the province, and was a member of the committee on regulations.[8] He was elected as a vice-president of the Serbian Progressive Party in 2016.

Jovanov received the twenty-second position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[9] The list won a landslide majority victory with 188 seats, and he is slated to receive a seat in the new assembly.

Jovanov also served in the Kikinda municipal assembly from 2012 to 2020.[10]

References
  1. Biografija, milenkojovanov.com, accessed 7 July 2020.
  2. Biografija, milenkojovanov.com, accessed 7 July 2020.
  3. Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 6 - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ-ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА - кандидати за посланике), Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  4. Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине расписаних за 06. мај 2012. године, Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  5. "Milenko Jovanov napustio DSS", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 23 May 2015, accessed 7 July 2020.
  6. "Rašković Ivić ostaje na čelu DSS-a, Milenko Jovanov napustio stranku", Novosti, 23 May 2015, accessed 7 July 2020.
  7. Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  8. Milenko Jovanov, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  9. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  10. Biografija, milenkojovanov.com, accessed 7 July 2020.
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