Nenad Milenković

Nenad Milenković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Миленковић; born 19 February 1972) is a former politician in Serbia. He was briefly a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2007 to 2008 and served as mayor of the Belgrade municipality of New Belgrade from 2008 to 2012. A member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) while an elected official, he later became a founding member of Together for Serbia (Zajedno za Srbiju, ZZS).

Private career

Milenković was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a degree in economics.[1]

Politician

Elected official

Milenković appeared in the second position on the Democratic Party's electoral list for the municipal assembly of New Belgrade in the 2004 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with twenty-eight out of sixty-seven seats.[2][3][4]

He received the 140th position on the DS's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] The list won sixty-four mandates, and he was not initially chosen for his party's delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Milenković's position on the list – which was in any event largely alphabetical – had no formal bearing on whether he received a mandate.)[6]

On 14 November 2007, he was awarded a mandate as a replacement for another party member who had left the national assembly.[7] During this period, the Democratic Party was part of an unstable coalition government with the rival Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS), and Milenković served as part of the administration's majority. His term was brief; a new assembly election was called in 2008, and Milenković was not a candidate.

Milenković led the DS's list to another plurality victory in New Belgrade for the 2008 local elections and was afterwards chosen as mayor.[8][9][10] He served in this role for the next four years. He also appeared on the DS's list for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the 2008 local elections and was awarded a mandate when the list won a plurality victory with forty-five out of 110 seats.[11][12][13]

Departure from DS and after

Following the DS's defeat in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, Dragan Đilas was selected as the party's new leader. Milenković opposed Đilas's leadership and left the party to join the breakaway Together for Serbia party, serving as the leader of its Belgrade board.[14]

In December 2013, Milenković was arrested on a charge of embezzlement pertaining to his time as mayor of New Belgrade.[15] Online accounts do not indicate how the matter was resolved.

References

  1. ^ NENAD MILENKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 15 June 2021.
  2. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 24 (8 September 2004), p. 55.
  3. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 28 (21 September 2004), p. 3.
  4. ^ In this election, one-third of mandates were awarded to successful electoral lists in numerical order, with the other two-thirds distributed to candidates on the list at the discretion of the sponsoring party or coalition. As the second-place candidate, Milenković received an automatic mandate. See Law on Local Elections, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  5. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка - Борис Тадић), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 May 2021.
  6. ^ Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  7. ^ Информације о одржаним седницама 2007. године (14. новембар 2007. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 15 June 2021.
  8. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 12 (30 April 2008), p. 13.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 15 (12 May 2008), p. 5.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 26 (1 August 2008), p. 24.
  11. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 12 (30 April 2008), p. 2. Milenković appeared in the sixty-fourth position on the list. For this election, all mandates were awarded to candidates on the list at the discretion of sponsoring parties or coalitions. See Law on Local Elections (2007), Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 129/2007); made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021.
  12. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 17 (19 May 2008), pp. 1–2.
  13. ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 52 Number 24 (15 July 2008), p. 2.
  14. ^ NENAD MILENKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 15 June 2021.
  15. ^ "Uhapšen bivši predsednik Opštine Novi Beograd Nenad Milenković", Blic, 12 December 2013, accessed 15 June 2021.