Milija Miletić

Milija Miletić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милија Милетић; born 1968) is a politician in Serbia. He was president (i.e., mayor) of the municipality of Svrljig for most of the period from 2008 to 2014 and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014. Miletić is the leader of the United Peasant Party.

Miletić in 2014

Early life and career

Miletić was born in the village of Plužina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He lives in nearby Svrljig, is a field veterinarian, and was a union activist before entering political life.[1]

Political career

Municipal politics

Miletić became the deputy mayor of Svrljig following the 2004 local elections and was chosen as mayor after the 2008 elections. He was removed from the latter position by the municipal assembly in December 2009 but returned to power four months later via a local alliance with the Serbian Radical Party.

Although the United Peasant Party had existed as a de facto party since 2000, it was not registered until 2010. Miletić was recognized as the party's first official leader.[2]

He was chosen for another term as mayor after the 2012 local elections and served in the position until his election to the national assembly in 2014. He has remained active in local politics since then, arranging a local alliance between the United Peasant Party and the Serbian Progressive Party in the 2016 Serbian local elections.[3] Despite some subsequent disagreements between the United Peasant Party and the Progressives at the local level,[4] Miletić was re-elected to another term in the local assembly in the 2020 local elections at the head of the Progressive Party's coalition list.[5]

Member of the National Assembly

Miletić received the ninety-seventh position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[6] He received the same position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[7]

In the 2016–20 parliament, Miletić was a member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the committee on the rights of the child; the chair of a subcommittee for monitoring agriculture in the most under-developed areas of Serbia; a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Slovenia; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[8] He served with the Movement of Socialists–People's Peasant Party–United Peasant Party parliamentary group, which supported the Progressive-led administration.[9]

He received the eighty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[10] and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He continues to serve on the agriculture committee and is a member of the committee on the rights of the child and a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction. He is still a member of Serbia's delegation of the parliamentary assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and the leader of Serbia's friendship group with Slovenia, and he is a member of the friendship groups with Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United States of America.[11]

In December 2020, Miletić formed a parliamentary group with the four assembly members of the Justice and Reconciliation Party.[12] Miletić is the deputy head of the group.[13]

References
  1. MILIJA MILETIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 March 2018.
  2. Историја, United Peasant Party (Serbia), accessed 28 March 2017.
  3. Aleksandar Kostić, "USS i SNS zajedno na lokalnim izborima u Svrljigu", Jużne vesti, 8 March 2016, accessed 8 January 2021.
  4. Aleksandar Kostić, "Miletić iz Seljačke stranke na izborima u Svrljigu pod Vučićevim imenom na listi", Južne vesti, 3 March 2020, accessed 26 July 2020.
  5. Збирна листа - РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОР ОДБОРНИКА СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ СВРЉИГ 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ and РЕЗУЛАТАТИ ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ СВРЉИГ, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Svrljig, accessed 8 January 2021.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. MILIJA MILETIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  9. Socialists’ Movement - People’s Peasant Party - United Peasant Party Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 28 March 2018.
  10. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  11. MILIJA MILETIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 January 2021.
  12. "Nova poslanička grupa formirana u Skupštini Srbije", 012.rs, 22 December 2020, accessed 8 January 2021.
  13. MILIJA MILETIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 January 2021.
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