Miljan Damjanović
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
3 June 2016 – 3 August 2020
Personal details
Born1984
Prizren, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partySerbian Radical Party

Miljan Damjanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљан Дамјановић; born 1984) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.

Early life and career

Damjanović was born in Prizren, Kosovo, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate economist.[1]

Political career

Damjanović joined the Radical Party in 2003 and was elected as a municipal official in Stari Grad, Belgrade in 2008. He subsequently became the leader of the Radical Party organization in Belgrade and a member of the party's national presidency. He announced a coalition government in Stari Grad in 2016 that included the Radical Party, its traditional ideological rival the Democratic Party, and other groups.[2]

In 2011, Damjanović took part in a protest against the arrest and extradition of Ratko Mladić. He was quoted as saying, "[His arrest] is an act of treason by the regime. It proved that this country is not free. He's a hero."[3]

Damjanović received the ninety-second position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and the thirty-first position in the 2014 election. The party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the National Assembly on either occasion.[4] He was promoted to the eighth position on the Radical list for the 2016 election and was elected when the party won twenty-two mandates.[5]

Damjanović is a member of the parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija; a deputy member of the European integration committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Belarus, China, and Russia.[6] He is also a substitute member of the Serbian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and is an alternate delegate on the PACE committee on social health and sustainable development.[7]

Damjanović announced in March 2017 that the Radical Party would send an international parliamentary delegation to Crimea to mark the three-year anniversary of the area's de facto joining of the Russian Federation.[8]

References

  1. ↑ MILJAN DAMJANOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 April 2017.
  2. ↑ SRS: Mi i DS smo šok, a pregovori Vučića i Jovanovića ne?, B92 (Source: Tanjug), 13 May 2016, accessed 11 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Chris Bryant and Neil MacDonald, "Clashes with police as Mladic loyalists take to streets," Financial Times, 30 May 2011, p. 08.
  4. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - ДР ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 11 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Miljan Damjanovic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 11 April 2017.
  7. ↑ Miljan DAMJANOVIĆ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 11 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Serbian Lawmaker Delegation to Visit Crimea in March - Serbian Radical Party Official," Sputnik News Service, 13 March 2017.
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