Goran Kovačević (Serbian politician)

Goran Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Ковачевић; born 1970) 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

Kovačević is an economist and has been an advisor to the economic centre ED "Centar".

Municipal Politician

He been a member of the Kragujevac municipal assembly since 2005.[1] Originally elected as a member of the Serbian Radical Party,[2] he joined the breakaway Progressive Party following a split in 2008. He has served as the leader of the Progressive caucus in the Kragujevac municipal assembly[3] and was described in 2017 as a prominent local ally of Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić.[4] He was re-elected in the 2020 Serbian local elections after receiving the second position on the Progressive Party's electoral list; the list won forty-six mandates.[5][6]

Parliamentarian

Kovačević received the 103rd position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[7] The list won seventy-three mandates, and he was not elected. He was promoted to the forty-sixth position for the 2014 and was elected to his first term when Progressive-led alliance won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[8] He received the 125th position in 2016 and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[9]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Kovačević was a member of the parliamentary committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Australia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, Bolivia, China, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United States of America.[10]

Kovačević received the sixty-ninth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 parliamentary election[11] and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates.

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References
  1. GORAN KOVAČEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 October 2017.
  2. Kovačević received the thirty-second position on the Radical Party's municipal election in the 2004 local elections in Kragujevac. See Велика Србија, September 2004 (Kragujevac edition), p. 5 [Radical Party publication].
  3. Odborničke grupe skupštine grada Kragujevca, Grad Kragujevac, accessed 10 October 2017.
  4. Бране Карталовић, "Николића смењују и његови напредњаци", Politika, 5 September 2017, accessed 10 October 2017.
  5. "Nosilac liste SNS za lokalne izbore u Kragujevcu Nikola Dašić, Nikolić neizvestan", Danas, 3 March 2020, accessed 23 July 2020.
  6. Документа Градске изборне комисије (РЕШЕЊЕ о додељивању мандата кандидатима за одборнике Скупштине града Крагујевца), City of Kragujevac, accessed 23 July 2020.
  7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2018-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. GORAN KOVACEVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  11. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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