Zoran Milekić

Zoran Milekić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Милекић; born 1955) is a politician in Serbia. He was president of the municipality (i.e. mayor) of Kučevo from 2004 to 2016 and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

Milekić is a civil technician based in Kučevo.[1][2]

Political career

Milekić began his political career as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party[3] but switched to the more centrist Progressives following a party split in 2008. He became mayor of Kučevo via a direct election in 2004 and was returned to the position following the municipal assembly elections of 2008 and 2012.[4][5] He continues to serve as a member of the Kučevo municipal assembly as of 2018.[6]

Milekić received the 103rd position on the 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.[7] He received the same position in the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[8] Milekić is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications, and a member Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Russia.[9]

References
  1. ZORAN MILEKIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 28 March 2018.
  2. ZORAN MILEKIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 March 2018.
  3. Za reprezentaciju potrošili 87.000 evra, Glas Javnosti, 7 August 2005, accessed 28 March 2018.
  4. ZORAN MILEKIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 March 2018.
  5. Ž. Lukić, "Milekić predsednik Kučeva", Danas, 7 June 2012, accessed 28 March 2018.
  6. СПИСАК ОДБОРНИКА СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ КУЧЕВО, Kučevo, accessed 28 March 2018.
  7. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  8. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  9. ZORAN MILEKIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 28 March 2018.
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