Milija Miletić

Miletić was elected as deputy mayor of Svrljig in the 2004 local elections. He became mayor following the 2008 elections. Removed from the position by the municipal assembly in December 2009, he returned to power via a local alliance with the Serbian Radical Party four months later.

Although the United Peasant Party had existed as a de facto party since 2000, it was not formally registered in 2010. Miletić was recognized as its first official leader, a position that he continues to hold as of 2018.[2]

Miletić was elected to another term as mayor of Svrljig by the municipal assembly following the 2012 local elections. He resigned from the position on his election to the National Assembly in 2014.

Miletić received the ninety-seventh position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[3] He received the same position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[4] He sits in the assembly as a member of the Movement of Socialists–People's Peasant Party–United Peasant Party group, which is aligned with the Progressive-led government of Serbia.[5]

Miletić is a member of the assembly's agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the committee on the rights of the child; the chair of a subcommittee for monitoring agriculture in the most under-developed areas of Serbia; a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Slovenia; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[6]