Muamer Bačevac

Muamer Bačevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Муамер Бачевац; born January 1, 1977) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bosniak community. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS).

Private career

Bačevac is a medical doctor in private life.[1]

Early political career

Bačevac lives in the Sandžak city of Novi Pazar and first became politically active in that city as a member of Rasim Ljajić's Sandžak Democratic Party. In 2008, he was one of the party's contenders for mayor.[2] The following year, he introduced a motion in the Novi Pazar municipal assembly that led to the dismissal of mayor Mirsad Đerlek and his replacement by Ljajić ally Meho Mahmutović.[3] Bačevac was identified in a 2011 interview as chair of the Sandžak Democratic Party's Novi Pazar committee; in this capacity, he rejected calls by the rival Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak for a coalition government in the city.[4]

Member of the National Assembly

Rasim Ljajić established the Social Democratic Party of Serbia as a country-wide political party in 2009, with the Sandžak Democratic Party continuing to operate in the Sandžak as a regional ally. For the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, the SDPS joined the Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Bačevac received the seventieth position on the alliance's electoral list and was declared elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[5] He was promoted to the fortieth position in the 2016 election for the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list and was again returned to the legislature when the alliance won a second consecutive landslide victory.[6]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Bačevac was a member of the assembly's health and family committee and the European integration committee; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Ukraine; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Iran, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[7]

He again received the fortieth position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[8] and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

Bačevac has continued to serve in the Novi Pazar municipal assembly since his election to parliament.[9] In February 2016, while serving as leader of the Sandžak Democratic Party group in the assembly, he spearheaded the passage of a motion condemning the political rehabilitation of fascist and quisling figures from World War II. Bačevac specifically condemned the rehabilitation of Draža Mihailović and Milan Nedić as an instance of historical revisionism and highlighted the anti-fascist legacy of the Bosniak people.[10]

In early 2020, Bačevac indicated that the Sandžak Democratic Party and Muamer Zukorlić's Justice and Reconciliation Party had begun working toward co-operation in the previous year, following an earlier period of enmity.[11]

References
  1. Muamer Bacevac, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 24 February 2017.
  2. "Serbia: Mayor's "bodyguards" arrested after 27 Apr shooting - Sandzak politician," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 28 April 2008 (Source: text of report by Serbian private independent news agency FoNet).
  3. "Serbia: Local Sandzak town parliament dismisses mayor over lack of "team work," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 15 September 2009 (Source: excerpt from report by Serbian Regional RTV Novi Pazar).
  4. "Serbian Bosniak party rejects ex-rival's Sandzak town coalition offer," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 13 January 2011.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Muamer Bacevac, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  8. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  9. See Skupština grada: Odbornici, City of Novi Pazar, accessed 25 July 2017.
  10. Amela Bajrović, "Novi Pazar protiv histerije rehabilitacija", Radio Slobodna Evropa, 29 February 2016, accessed 24 February 2017.
  11. "Stabilizacija odnosa između Ljajićeve i Zukorlićeve partije", Danas, 4 February 2020, accessed 10 July 2020.
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