Milorad Mijatović

Milorad Mijatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Мијатовић; born November 25, 1947) is a politician and trade union official in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 and has led the assembly group of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) throughout this time.

Early life and career

Mijatović was born in Erdevik, a village in Šid municipality in Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He received a diploma and master's degree from the faculty of natural sciences and mathematics from the University of Sarajevo and a Ph.D. from the faculty of natural sciences and mathematics from the University of Novi Sad. He subsequently worked as a professor of mathematics at the Higher School of Professional Business Studies in Novi Sad, in which city he continues to reside.

He has served as president of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Vojvodina and vice-president of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia.[1] During an economic downtown in 2009, he said that the latter organization was strongly considering setting up a new social democratic political party to defend the rights of workers.[2][3]

Political career

Mijatović joined the SDPS prior to the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. The party contested this election as part of Boris Tadić's Choice for a Better Life coalition; Mijatović received the fourteenth position on the coalition's electoral list and was duly elected when the list won sixty-three mandates.[4] Following the election, the SDPS joined a new coalition government led by the Serbian Progressive Party, and Mijatović served as part of its parliamentary majority.

The SDPS joined the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 parliamentary election. Mijatović received the tenth position on the list and was returned for a second term when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[5] He was re-elected to a third term in the 2016, in which the Progressive-led list once again won a majority victory.[6]

Mijatović is a member of the assembly's foreign affairs committee; a member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the security services control committee; a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association parliamentary committee; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Sweden; and a member of its parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, China, Germany, Greece, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States of America. He continues to lead the SDPS group in the assembly as of 2018.[7]

References

  1. ↑ MILORAD MIJATOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 24 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Serbian workers set to radicalize strikes, ready to go 'all the way'," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 26 April 2009 (Source: Vecernje novosti website, Belgrade, in Serbian 23 Apr 09).
  3. ↑ "Serbian unions considering transforming into labour party," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 29 April 2009 (Source: Vecernje novosti website, Belgrade, in Serbian 25 Apr 09).
  4. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 24 February 2017.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Mijatović received the twentieth position on the coalition list, which won 131 out of 250 mandates. See Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. ↑ MILORAD Dr MIJATOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 24 March 2018.
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