Nikola Jolović (politician)

Nikola Jolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Јоловић; born July 13, 1977) 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

Jolović was born in Novi Pazar, in the Sandžak region of what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised and educated in the city, he later earned a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Belgrade and worked at P.P. Fiđoni in Novi Pazar.[1]

Political career

Jolović was active in municipal politics prior to his election to the National Assembly. He was chosen as deputy mayor of Novi Pazar in June 2013, after the Progressives joined the local municipal governing alliance. In December 2013, he became acting president of the city's Progressive Party organization.[2]

Jolović received the 109th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was declared elected when the list won 158 out of 250 mandates.[3] He was promoted to the seventh-three position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list for the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority.[4] He currently serves as a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Germany, Italy, Russia, Syria, and the United States of America.[5]

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References
  1. Nikola Jolović, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 8 August 2017.
  2. Nikola Jolovic new president of SNS Novi Pazar, Sandžak Press, 28 December 2013, accessed 8 August 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Александар Вучић - Србија Побећује) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. Nikola Jolović, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 August 2017.
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