Milan Savić (politician)

Milan Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Савић; born 1991) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2020 to 2021 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

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Savić is from northern Kosovo Mitrovica in the disputed territory recognized in Serbia as Kosovo and Metohija.[1] He holds a bachelor's degree (2013) and a master's degree (2017) in architectural engineering from the University of Pristina in northern Kosovo Mitrovica. He was elected as president of the Student Conference of Serbian Universities (SKONUS) in 2016 and re-elected in 2018.[2][3]

Politician

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Savić received the sixty-eighth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 parliamentary election[4] and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 188 out of 250 mandates. During his time in parliament, he was a member of the committee on Kosovo-Metohija, a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region and the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Botswana, and a member of several other parliamentary friendship groups.[5]

During a December 2020 speech in the national assembly, Savić accused Party of Freedom and Justice leader Dragan Đilas and those whom he described as Đilas's "partners in Priština" of having a common interest in overthrowing Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić and killing him along with his family. This statement was condemned by Borko Stefanović, deputy leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice, who said that the Progressives were "no longer [merely] playing with fire" but "burning the whole world to stay in power."[6]

Savić resigned from the national assembly on 11 March 2021.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Student Prištinskog univerziteta prvi put predsednik SKONUS-a", Kossev, 26 December 2016, accessed 23 July 2020.
  3. ^ I. Radulović, "KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA SKONUS: Milanu Saviću novi mandat predsednika", Novosti, 16 December 2018, accessed 23 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  5. ^ MILAN SAVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 1 January 2021. In addition to being the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Botswana, he was a member of the friendship groups with Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chile, China, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, France, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Nauru, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Palau, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, the Philippines, the Republic of Congo, Russia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.
  6. ^ "U Skupštini ponovo o Đilasu i ubistvu Vučića, i to uz aplauz predsedavajućeg", N1, 9 December 2020, accessed 1 January 2021.
  7. ^ Current Legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 16 March 2021.
  8. ^ "11. електронска седница Републичке изборне комисије", Republika Srbija – Republička izborna komisija, 17 March 2021, accessed 17 March 2021.