Miroslav Aleksić (People's Party politician)

Miroslav Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Алексић; born 1978) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016, originally as the leader of the People's Movement of Serbia and subsequently with Vuk Jeremić's People's Party.

Miroslav Aleksić
Мирослав Алексић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
2016
Leader of the People's Movement of Serbia
In office
2015–2017
Preceded byposition established
Succeeded byposition abolished
Mayor of Trstenik
In office
2012–2016
Preceded byStevan Đaković
Succeeded byAleksandar Ćirić
Personal details
Political partyPeople's Party (since 2017)
People's Movement of Serbia (2014–17)
United Regions of Serbia (until 2014)

Early life and private career

Aleksić was born in Kruševac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in Trstenik, trained as an economist, and worked as a public sector manager in Trstenik from 2008 to 2012.[1]

Political career

Aleksić began his political career as a member of the United Regions of Serbia (URS), serving as president of its Trstenik board in the early 2010s.

The United Regions of Serbia won the greatest number of seats in Trstenik's 2012 municipal elections and formed a coalition government with the Serbian Progressive Party, New Serbia, the Socialist Party of Serbia, and the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia.[2] Aleksić was selected as head of the municipality (i.e., mayor) and served in this role for the next four years.[3] He issued a declaration that genetically modified food would not be produced in the municipality[4] and opposed nickel mining on the grounds that it would jeopardize several local villages.[5] His term ended following the 2016 municipal elections, when the Progressive Party, the Socialist Party, and the Serbian Renewal Movement formed a new coalition.[6] He continues to serve in the Trstenik municipal assembly.[7]

Aleksić was a URS spokesperson at the national level during this time[8] and received the eleventh position on its electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[9] The list did not cross the threshold to win representation in the assembly. Aleksić left the party later in the year and served on the steering committee of a breakaway group originally called the People's Party of Serbia.[10] In February 2015, this group formally constituted itself as the People's Movement of Serbia with Aleksić as leader.[11][12] He received the eighth position on the Alliance for a Better Serbia list in the 2016 parliamentary election[13] and was elected when it won thirteen mandates. The list was principally an alliance of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina; Aleksić was the only People's Movement candidate elected. The Serbian Progressive Party and its allies won the election, and Aleksić serves in opposition.

In October 2017, he permitted the People's Movement of Serbia to be re-registered as the People's Party under Jeremić's leadership, allowing the new party to bypass the usual registration process.[14] Aleksić was selected as vice-president of the People's Party at its founding convention the same month.[15]

For most of the 2016–20 parliament, Aleksić was the deputy leader of the Social Democratic Party–People's Party parliamentary group, which had five members.[16] This group dissolved in 2020. He is a member of the parliamentary committee on agriculture, forestry, and water management; a deputy member of the committees on Kosovo-Metohija and the rights of the child; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, China, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United States of America.[17]

Along with other opposition parties, the People's Party has boycotted the National Assembly since 2019 and is boycotting the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, accusing the governing Progressive Party of undermining Serbia's democratic institutions conditions and charging that conditions do not exist for free elections. Aleksić has been prominent among opposition figures in calling for a total electoral boycott at all levels of government.[18]

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References
  1. MIROSLAV ALEKSIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 17 July 2017.
  2. "Trstenik dobio većinu", B92, 6 June 2012, accessed 17 July 2017.
  3. MIROSLAV ALEKSIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 17 July 2017.
  4. "Aleksić: U Trsteniku se neće proizvoditi GMO", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 3 March 2013, accessed 7 July 2017.
  5. Р. Станковић, "Трстеник против рудника никла", Politika, 14 November 2013.
  6. С. БАБОВИЋ, "Алексић чека став Београда", Novosti, 26 May 2016, accessed 17 July 2017.
  7. СПИСАК ОДБОРНИКА СО-е 2016. година, City of Trstenik, accessed 8 August 2018.
  8. "Aleksić: Ministri URS-a izbačeni iz vlade bez zamerki", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 3 August 2013, accessed 17 July 2017.
  9. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 July 2017.
  10. "Analyst says reassembling Serbian opposition impossible with old leaders," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 8 July 2014 (Source: Politika website, Belgrade, in Serbian 7 Jul 14).
  11. "Narodni pokret Srbije: Potrebni novi ljudi", Radio Television of Serbia, 8 February 2015, accessed 8 August 2018.
  12. Mirko Rudić, "Kamen oko vrata državi", Vreme, 21 May 2015, accessed 26 January 2017.
  13. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  14. "'Blic': Jeremić u oktobru osniva Narodnu stranku, B92, 28 September 2017, accessed 20 November 2017.
  15. "Former FM Jeremic becomes leader of newly founded party", B92, 23 October 2017, accessed 20 November 2017.
  16. Social Democratic Party, People’s Movement of Serbia Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 November 2017.
  17. MIROSLAV ALEKSIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 November 2017.
  18. "Aleksić: Nema izbora u plemenskoj zajednici u kojoj poglavica odlučuje o svemu", N1, 11 June 2020, accessed 16 June 2020.
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