Aleksandar Marković (politician)

Aleksandar Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Марковић; born 22 May 1981) 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

Marković was born in Belgrade, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate economist.[1]

Political career

Municipal

Marković entered political life as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, serving as a party representative in the municipal assembly of Vračar in 2004.[2] The Radicals experienced a significant split in 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Serbian Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Marković sided with the Progressives and continued to serve in municipal politics under the new party's banner. He has been chair of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Communities of the Municipality of Vračar, and from 2008 to 2009 he was a member of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade.[3]

Member of the National Assembly

Marković received the 110th position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won seventy-three mandates, and he was not elected.[4]

In the 2014 parliamentary election, Marković received the 125th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list.[5] The list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates, and Marković was elected to his first term in the assembly. He was promoted to the nineteenth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[6]

Marković is currently a member of the parliamentary defence and internal affairs committee; a member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues and the committee on Kosovo-Metohija; a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he caucuses with the European People's Party;[7] and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Indonesia, Montenegro, the State of Palestine, Russia, and Syria.[8]

References
  1. ALEKSANDAR MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 November 2017.
  2. Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], September 2005, p. 4.
  3. ALEKSANDAR MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 November 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  6. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. Aleksandar MARKOVIĆ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 27 November 2017.
  8. ALEKSANDAR MARKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 27 November 2017.
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