Mirko Krlić

Mirko Krlić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирко Крлић; born May 18, 1955) is a journalist and 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

Krlić was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, then part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He has been the editor-in-chief of a number of politically and socially themed television programs, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Zrenjanin, and the public relations manager for Jugoremedija. He has also been the marketing director of Servo Mihalj - Turist. Krlić became president of the Progressive Party's information council in Zrenjanin after the party 's formation in 2008 and has served as vice-president of the party committee in the city.[1]

Political career

Krlić received the 127th position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving coalition electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won seventy-three seats, and the Progressive Party subsequently became the dominant force in a new Serbian coalition government. Krlić was not elected, but he was appointed by the new administration as assistant director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. During his time in office, he promoted the twinning of various municipalities in Central Serbia with their counterparts in Kosovo, in bid to strengthen connections between the areas.[3] He supported Kosovo Serb participation in the 2013 Kosovan local elections and called for a Community of Serb Municipalities to be established after the campaign.[4]

Krlić was promoted to the fifty-third position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was easily elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[5] He was given the forty-sixth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 election and was again returned when the list won 131 mandates.[6] He is currently a member of the committee on Kosovo-Metohija and the culture and information committee, as well as being a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[7]

References
  1. MIRKO KRLIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 20 August 2017.
  2. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  3. "Krlić: Srbija se nije odrekla Kosova i Metohije", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 3 November 2012, accessed 20 October 2017.
  4. "Krlić: Pobeda na izborima zaustavlja raseljavanje Srba", Blic (Source: Beta), 18 October 2013, accessed 20 October 2017.
  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. MIRKO KRLIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 20 October 2017.
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