Srđan Nogo

Srđan Nogo (Serbian Cyrillic: Срђан Ного; born 1981) is a politician in Serbia. He was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in 2016 as a member of the right-wing Dveri party and served as a party delegate for the next three years. He was expelled from Dveri in February 2019.

Srđan Nogo
Срђан Ного
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
3 June 2016
Personal details
Born1981 (39 years old)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partyDveri (2011–2019)
Independent (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
OccupationPolitician

Early life and career

Nogo was born in Belgrade[1], then the capital of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His father was a professor at the University of Belgrade, and his mother was a journalist. In his youth, he played basketball for KK Partizan.[2] He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, focusing on international law. He joined the journal Dveri Srpske in 2008 and was a founding member of the Dveri organization in 2011.[3]

Nogo was a featured speaker at May 2011 a rally in support of Ratko Mladić held in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, following the former Bosnian Serb military leader's arrest in Serbia on war crimes charges. Nogo was quoted as saying, "There are more Mladićs in Serbia, they grow and will continue where he stopped."[4] Two years later, he announced that Dveri would seek to bring criminal charges against Serbian government representatives who negotiated the 2013 Brussels Agreement, which normalized Serbia's relations with Kosovo.[5]

Political career

Nogo received the tenth position on Dveri's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and the eighth position in the 2014 election. The party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly on either occasion.[6][7]

Dveri contested the 2016 election in an alliance with the Democratic Party of Serbia, and Nogo received the third position on the combined list. The parties won thirteen mandates, and Nogo was accordingly elected.[8] He sits as an opposition member and is a member of the assembly's committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the health and family committee and the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, China, Greece, Kazakhstan, and Russia.[9]

Shortly after his election, Nogo commented that the annual commemorations of the Srebrenica massacre were being used by western countries to damage relations between Serbia and Bosnia–Herzegovina. The Sputnik News Service quoted him as saying, "Srebrenica commemorations is a politicized issue. Western forces and Bosnian Muslims are [sic] using Srebrenica events for twenty-one years. Srebrenica being so easily defined as genocide, however, the events of twenty-one years ago are still [sic] remain unclear."[10]

Nogo has also served as chair of the Dveri organization in Belgrade. The party contested the 2018 city assembly election in a somewhat unusual alliance with the reformist It's Enough – Restart association, and Nogo appeared their combined electoral list in the largely symbolic final position.[11] The list failed to win any seats, and Nogo was removed as chair shortly thereafter.[12]

Nogo was removed from the presidency of Dveri in October 2018 after saying that Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić should be hanged if she signed the Dublin Regulation on allowing asylum seekers into the country.[13] He was subsequently expelled from Dveri by the party's disciplinary committee on 19 February 2019, after bringing a gimmick noose to an anti-government protest (saying that no-one in Serbia should kill themselves over matters such as corruption, taxes, and unemployment) and calling on the police to arrest him.[14] The committee ruled that Nogo had brought the movement into disrepute and that he had acted contrary to the party's mandate and decisions. Nogo has described his expulsion as illegal and has said that he still considers himself a member of the party.[15][16][17]

Nogo left the Dveri parliamentary group on 23 April 2019.[18]

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References
  1. "Srđan Nogo". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  2. Milenković, Piše: M. R. "Srđan Nogo: Košarkaš u politici". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  3. SRĐAN NOGO, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 3 May 2018.
  4. "Big pro-Mladic Bosnia rally stirs Muslim fear," Reuters News, 31 May 2011.
  5. "KOSOVO: ACCORDO, DENUNCE PENALI CONTRO NEGOZIATORI SERBI," ANSA - Foreign Affairs News Service, 24 April 2013.
  6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДВЕРИ ЗА ЖИВОТ СРБИЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 October 2017.
  7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДВЕРИ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 October 2017.
  8. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  9. SRDjAN NOGO, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 3 May 2018.
  10. "Srebrenica Mass Killing Politicized by West to Imperil Stability in Region – Serbian Party," Sputnik News Service, 11 July 2016.
  11. ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА (Група грађана „ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО И ДВЕРИ – ДА ОВИ ОДУ, А ДА СЕ ОНИ НЕ ВРАТЕ“) (2018), City of Belgrade, accessed 4 May 2018.
  12. M.R. Milenković, "Smenjen Nogo sa čela beogradskog odbora", Danas, 4 April 2018, accessed 3 May 2018.
  13. "Obradović: Za Dveri neprihvatljivo nošenje vešala, Nogo će snositi posledice", Danas, 11 February 2019, accessed 19 February 2019.
  14. "Nogo poneo vešala, pozvao policiju da ga uhapsi", N1, 9 February 2019, accessed 19 February 2019.
  15. "Obradović: Neprihvatljivo nošenje vešala na protest, Nogo će snositi posledice", N1, 13 February 2019, accessed 19 February 2019.
  16. "Disciplinska komisija isključila Srđana Noga iz Dveri", N1, 19 February 2019, accessed 19 February 2019.
  17. "Srđan Nogo isključen iz pokreta Dveri", Danas, 19 February 2019, accessed 19 February 2019.
  18. Poslanička grupa Dveri u Skupštini Srbije više ne postoji, N!1, 23 April 2019, accessed 23 April 2019.
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