Dejan Kovačević (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Ковачевић; born 6 June 1979) is a politician in Serbia. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2016 and has served as mayor of Gornji Milanovac since 2016. Kovačević is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).

Early life and career

Kovačević was born in Gornji Milanovac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A graduated engineer of industrial management, he has worked in the private sector and has been a branch manager and the Kragujevac director for DDOR a.d.o. Novi Sad.[1][2]

Politician

Kovačević has been a member of the Progressive Party since its founding. He led the party's electoral list for the Gornji Milanovac municipal assembly in the 2012 local elections and was elected when the list won nine mandates.[3][4] The Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) won the election, and Kovačević led the SNS's assembly group in the term that followed.[5] He also appeared in the 161st position on the SNS's list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was not elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.[6]

Parliamentarian

Kovačević was promoted to the 122nd position on the SNS's list for the 2014 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[7] He served for the next two years as a government supporter. In parliament, he was a deputy member of the committee on defence and internal affairs and the committee on economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy, as well as a being a member of parliamentary friendship groups with China, Germany, Italy, and Russia.[8]

Kovačević was also a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2014 to 2016. He served with the parliamentary group of the European People's Party and was a substitute member of the committee on social affairs, health, and sustainable development.[9]

He was not a candidate in the 2016 parliamentary election.

Mayor of Gornji Milanovac

Kovačević led the SNS's list to a near-majority victory with twenty-four out of forty-nine seats in Gornji Milanovac in the 2016 local elections .[10][11] He was chosen as mayor when the assembly convened, ending twelve years of SPS rule in the municipality.[12][13]

In the 2020 local elections, he led the SNS to a majority victory with twenty-seven seats.[14][15] He was confirmed afterward for another term as mayor, this time in coalition with the SPS.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Председник Општине Горњи Милановац, Municipality of Gornji Milanovac, accessed 8 February 2022.
  2. ↑ DEJAN KOVAČEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 8 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Gornji Milanovac), Volume 21 Number 8 (21 April 2012), p. 4.
  4. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Gornji Milanovac), Volume 21 Number 9 (8 May 2012), p. 2.
  5. ↑ Odbornici, Archived 2014-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Gornji Milanovac, 18 August 2014, accessed 8 February 2022.
  6. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 ПОКРЕНИМО СРБИЈУ - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ (Српска напредна странка, Нова Србија, Асоцијација малих и средњих предузећа и предузетника Србије, Коалиција удружења избјеглица у Републици Србији, Покрет снага Србије - БК, Народна сељачка странка, Бошњачка народна странка, Демократска партија Македонаца, Ромска партија, Покрет влашког уједињења, Покрет социјалиста, Покрет привредни препород Србије)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2022.
  7. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - БУДУЋНОСТ У КОЈУ ВЕРУЈЕМО (Српска напредна странка, Социјалдемократска партија Србије, Нова Србија, Српски покрет обнове, Покрет социјалиста)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 8 February 2022.
  8. ↑ DEJAN KOVAČEVIĆ, Archived 2016-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 30 April 2016, accessed 8 February 2022.
  9. ↑ Mr Dejan KOVAČEVIĆ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 8 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Gornji Milanovac), Volume 25 Number 7 (13 April 2016), accessed 8 February 2022.
  11. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Gornji Milanovac), Volume 25 Number 9 (25 April 2016), accessed 8 February 2022.
  12. ↑ Председник Општине Горњи Милановац, Municipality of Gornji Milanovac, accessed 8 February 2022.
  13. ↑ "SNS na vlasti u Gornjem Milanovcu, SPS u opoziciji posle 12 godina", Blic, 12 May 2016, accessed 8 February 2022.
  14. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Gornji Milanovac), Volume 29 Number 9 (10 June 2020), p. 2).
  15. ↑ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Gornji Milanovac), Volume 29 Number 10 (22 June 2020), p. 3.
  16. ↑ "Dejan Kovačević predsednik opštine Gornji Milanovac u novom mandatu", Info 24, 18 August 2020, accessed 8 February 2022.
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