Branislav Mihajlović (politician)

Branislav Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав Михајловић; born 1953) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the anti-establishment and reformist It's Enough – Restart association, better known in English by the name "Enough Is Enough." In April 2018, he succeeded Saša Radulović as the leader of the association.

Private career

Born into a mining family,[1] Mihajlović has a doctorate in technical science and worked for thirty-nine years at RTB Bor, where he was a manager and oversaw planning and production analysis. He was dismissed from the company in 2015 after making a series of critical posts about its ownership on social media; after receiving a notice of termination, he sarcastically thanked his former employers for demonstrating that he and they had nothing in common.[2] The It's Enough – Restart group charged that the company targeted Mihajlović on political grounds.[3] Mihajlović continues to reside in Bor.[4]

Political career

Mihajlović received the sixth position on the It's enough – Restart electoral list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won sixteen mandates.[5] The election was won by the Serbian Progressive Party and its allies, and Mihajlović serves as a member of the opposition. He is a member of the assembly committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the security services control committee; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Iran and Kazakhstan.[6]

Mihajlović was chosen as the leader of It's Enough – Restart on April 21, 2018, after the resignation of Saša Radulović. He won the contest without opposition; Tatjana Macura, the only other candidate, had previously withdrawn.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Mirjana R. Milenković "Branislav Mihajlović: Rudarski sin", Danas, 24 April 2018, accessed 26 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Inženjeru RTB Bor uručen otkaz zbog tvitova", N1, 17 June 2015, accessed 7 December 2017.
  3. ↑ 'Dosta je bilo': Politički progon radnika zbog tvitovanja, N1, 6 June 2015, accessed 7 December 2017.
  4. ↑ BRANISLAV MIHAJLOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 7 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДОСТА ЈЕ БИЛО – САША РАДУЛОВИЋ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 March 2017.
  6. ↑ BRANISLAV MIHAJLOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 7 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "DJB danas bira novo rukovodstvo", B92, 21 April 2018, accessed 26 April 2018.
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