Aleksa Bečić

Aleksa Bečić
Алекса Бечић
Member of Parliament
Assumed office
16 October 2016
Personal details
Born (1987-08-04) 4 August 1987
Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Political party Socialist People's Party
(2010-2015)
Democratic Montenegro
(2015-present)
Alma mater University of Montenegro

Aleksa Bečić (Cyrillic: Алекса Бечић) (born in Cetinje on 4 August 1987) is a Montenegrin politician, current member of Parliament. He is the founder and current president of centrist political party Democratic Montenegro.

Biography

Bečić was born in Cetinje, Montenegrin Old Royal Capital, at that time part of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro of SFR Yugoslavia. Having finished elementary and secondary school of Economics in Podgorica,[1] Bečić graduated at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montenegro. He obtained a master's degree in 2014.[2]

Political career

He led the Socialist People's Party electoral list in the Podgorica local election of May 2014 under the slogan "youth, wisdom and courage".[3] In 2015 he became one of the founders of the Democratic Montenegro Party, when the faction of the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro defected from the political party, and formed new political subject, represented by 2 MPs in the Parliament of Montenegro.[4] A newly formed party ran independently at the 2016 parliamentary election under the slogan "Victories, not divisions",[5] increased their number of MPs from 2 to 9 and becoming one of main opposition parties in Montenegrin Parliament.

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