Milenko Jovanov
{{Short description|Serbian politician (born 1980)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Milenko Jovanov
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|9|13|df=y}}
| alma_mater = University of Belgrade
| birth_place = Kikinda, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
| party = DSS (2001–2015)
SNS (2015–present)
| image = Milenko Jovanov 2024.jpg
| office = Parliamentary leader of the Together We Can Do Everything caucus
| term_start = 1 August 2022
| term_end =
| preceded = Aleksandar Martinović
| office1 = Member of the National Assembly
| termstart1 = 3 August 2020
| nationality = Serbian
| nickname =
| native_name = {{No bold|Миленко Јованов}}
| native_name_lang = sr
}}
Milenko Jovanov ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Миленко Јованов}}; born 13 September 1980) is a Serbian politician. He has been a member of the National Assembly since 2020 and he previously served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2020. He has led the Together We Can Do Everything parliamentary group since August 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-01 |title=SNS nakon konstitutivne sednice: Milenko Jovanov novi šef poslaničke grupe - Politika - Dnevni list Danas |url=https://www.danas.rs/vesti/politika/sns-nakon-konstitutivne-sednice-milenko-jovanov-sef-poslanicke-grupe-novi-saziv-skupstine-bez-aleksandra-martinovica/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |language=sr-RS}}
Personal life
Jovanov was born in 1980 in Kikinda, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Belgrade and later graduated in specialist vocational studies from the Faculty of Political Science at the same institution.[https://milenkojovanov.com/biografija/ Biografija], milenkojovanov.com, accessed 7 July 2020.
Politician
Jovanov joined the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) in 2001 and held several leadership positions in the party, including president of its provincial board in Vojvodina and vice-president at the republic level.[https://milenkojovanov.com/biografija/ Biografija], milenkojovanov.com, accessed 7 July 2020.
=Provincial politics=
Jovanov received the fourth position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected to the assembly when the list won four mandates.[http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2012 Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 6 - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ-ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА - кандидати за посланике)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710090218/http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2012 |date=2020-07-10 }}, Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.[http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=rezultati2012&i=2012 Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине расписаних за 06. мај 2012. године] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314165629/http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=rezultati2012&i=2012 |date=2016-03-14 }}, Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. He resigned from the DSS in 2015 and later joined the Progressive Party.[http://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/politika/milenko-jovanov-napustio-dss_602928.html "Milenko Jovanov napustio DSS"], Radio Television of Vojvodina, 23 May 2015, accessed 7 July 2020.[https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/politika/aktuelno.289.html:549485-Milenko-Jovanov-napustio-stranku-Raskovic-preti-ostavkom "Rašković Ivić ostaje na čelu DSS-a, Milenko Jovanov napustio stranku"], Novosti, 23 May 2015, accessed 7 July 2020.
Jovanov received the eleventh position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected to a second term when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three mandates.[http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2016 Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419223900/http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2016 |date=2021-04-19 }}, Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. In the 2016–20 sitting of the assembly, he served as president of the Progressive Party's group of deputies, was vice-president of the committee on issues on the constitutional and legal status of the province, and was a member of the committee on regulations.[https://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Poslanici.aspx?id=704&s=poslanici Milenko Jovanov], Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. He was elected as a vice-president of the Serbian Progressive Party in 2016.
=Municipal politics=
Jovanov was given the lead position on the DSS's list for the Kikinda municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local electionsSlužbeni List (Opštine Kikinda), Volume 47 Number 7 (25 April 2012), p. 9. and was elected when the list won two mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Kikinda), Volume 47 Number 10 (14 May 2016), p. 3. He received the eleventh position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2016 Serbian local electionsSlužbeni List (Grada Kikinde), Volume 1 Number 4 (13 April 2016), p. 4. and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-six out of thirty-nine mandates.Službeni List (Grada Kikinde), Volume 1 Number 5 (25 April 2016), p. 2. He was not a candidate in 2020.
=Parliamentarian=
Jovanov received the twenty-second position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[https://www.danas.rs/politika/izbori-2020/ko-je-sve-na-listi-sns-za-republicke-poslanike/ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?"], Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on constitutional and legislative issues, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Norway, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Israel and Romania.[http://www.parlament.gov.rs/MILENKO_JOVANOV.1029.488.html MILENKO JOVANOV], National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 December 2020. Jovanov served as the vice president of SNS until 2021.{{Cite web|date=27 November 2021|title=SNS obeležava 13 godina postojanja: Vučić predsednik SNS-a do izbora, izabrani novi potpresednici stranke|url=https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2021&mm=11&dd=27&nav_category=11&nav_id=2063711|access-date=2021-11-27|website=B92|language=sr-Latn-RS}}