Goran Kovačević (Serbian politician)

Goran Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Ковачевић; born 1970) is a 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

Kovačević is an economist and has been an advisor to the economic centre ED "Centar". He been a member of the Kragujevac municipal assembly since 2005;[1] originally elected as a member of the Serbian Radical Party,[2] he joined the breakaway Progressive Party following a split in 2008. He is currently the leader of the Progressive caucus in the Kragujevac municipal assembly[3] and is considered to be a prominent local ally of Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić.[4]

Parliamentarian

Kovačević received the 103rd position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] The list won seventy-three mandates, and he was not elected. He was promoted to the forty-sixth position for the 2014 and was elected to his first term when Progressive-led alliance won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[6] He received the 125th position in 2016 and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[7]

He is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Australia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, China, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United States of America.[8]

References

  1. ↑ GORAN KOVAČEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Kovačević received the thirty-second position on the Radical Party's municipal election in the 2004 local elections in Kragujevac. See Велика Србија, September 2004 (Kragujevac edition), p. 5 [Radical Party publication].
  3. ↑ Odborničke grupe skupštine grada Kragujevca, Grad Kragujevac, accessed 10 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Бране Карталовић, "Николића смењују и његови напредњаци", Politika, 5 September 2017, accessed 10 October 2017.
  5. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  8. ↑ GORAN KOVACEVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 10 October 2017.
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