Srbislav Filipović
Srbislav Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Србислав Филиповић; born 1984) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career
[edit]Filipović is a graduate economist and was a student union leader in 2009.[1][2] He lives in Belgrade.
Political career
[edit]City of Belgrade
[edit]Filipović sought election to the municipal assembly of Stari Grad, Belgrade in the 2004 Serbian local elections, receiving in the twenty-second position on the electoral list of G17 Plus.[3] The list won five seats,[4] and he was not selected for a mandate.[5]
Filipović received the one hundredth position (out of 110) on the Progressive Party's list for the Assembly of the City of Belgrade in the 2012 local elections.[6] The list won thirty-seven mandates, and he was not elected. He was promoted to the seventieth position on the party's list for the 2014 city election.[7] On this occasion, the list won a majority victory with sixty-three seats. Filipović was not initially included in his party's delegation but received a mandate on 24 April 2014 following the resignation of other members further up the list.[8] He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Parliamentarian
[edit]Filipović received the ninety-fifth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won 131 out of 250 mandates.[9] The Progressive Party retained its status as the largest party in Serbia's coalition government after the election, and Filipović serves as part of its parliamentary majority. During the 2016–20 parliament, he was a member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the culture and information committee and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; the head of the parliamentary friendship group with Croatia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Algeria, Belarus, China, Germany, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Myanmar, Namibia, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[10]
He received the 114th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[11] and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now a member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the committee on Kosovo-Metohija, a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues, a member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly, the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Albania, and a member of the friendship groups with the Bahamas, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Comoros, Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Montenegro, Mozambique, Nauru, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, the Republic of Congo, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, the Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Uzbekistan.[12]
During a parliamentary speech in December 2020, Filipović accused Dragan Đilas of wanting to bring about the assassination of Aleksandar Vučić.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Deset godina od NATO bombardovanja", Politika, 23 March 2009, accessed 25 April 2017.
- ^ SRBISLAV FILIPOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 April 2017.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 24 (8 September 2004), City of Belgrade, p. 87.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 27 (20 September 2004), City of Belgrade, p. 4.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 31 (8 November 2004), City of Belgrade, p. 8. Mandates were awarded at the discretion of successful parties during this time, and there was no requirement for the mandates to be awarded in numerical order.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 56 Number 21 (25 April 2012), p. 11.
- ^ Изборне листе (Изборна листа 1. АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – БУДУЋНОСТ У КОЈУ ВЕРУЈЕМО), Градска изборна комисија (Локални избори 2014), www.beograd.rs, accessed 25 April 2017.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 58 Number 39 (24 April 2014), p. 2.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ SRBISLAV FILIPOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ SRBISLAV FILIPOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 13 January 2021.
- ^ M.R. Milenković, "Filipović optužio Đilasa da želi ubistvo Vučića", Danas, 17 December 2020, accessed 13 January 2021.