Igor Simić (, ; born 25 May 1986) is a

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politician who was a deputy in the

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. He is a vice president and the spokesperson of the Serb List, a Serb minority party in

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Early life and career

He was born to a Serb family in 1986 in Titova Mitrovica (Kosovska Mitrovica / Mitrovica) which at the time was a part of the

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. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics,

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with the temporary seat in

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and later he did

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at the same university and received his

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and defended his doctoral dissertation in on the topic of the Community of Serb Municipalities. Currently he is an assistant at the Faculty of Economics, University of Priština and a member of the council at the Faculty of Law of the same university. He is an executive director of the NGO "Sinergija". In 2015, Simic became the director of the supervisory board of the state-owned enterprise "Mreža Most" and then again in 2019. Besides his native

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* * * Old Serbian (disambiguat ...

, he speaks

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Political career

Before joining the Serb List, and the Serbian Progressive Party in 2016, he was the spokesperson of the Civic Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (SDP) which was led by

Oliver Ivanović Oliver Ivanović ( sr-cyr, Оливер Ивановић; 1 April 1953 – 16 January 2018) was a Kosovo Serb politician. Ivanović served as the State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija from 2008 to 2012 and was also a member of t ...

, who at that time was in prison and was assassinated in 2018. After the 2017 Kosovan parliamentary elections, Simić became a deputy in the

and after the

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he was elected again. He serves in the Parliamentary Committee for Rights and Interests of Communities and Returns as well as the Committee for Local Governance, Public Administration, Regional Development and Media. In 2018, Igor Simić was elected vice president of the Serb List. In November 2019, Simić said that

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continues to fund parallel structures and that the Serbian state provides salaries to 40 thousand Serbian citizens in Kosovo. He also denounced claims that North Kosovo is more dangerous than other parts of Kosovo and that young people are not leaving Kosovo because of the Serb List, but because of the Kosovar political class. On 5 November 2022, all the ten deputies of the Serb List, including Simić, resigned from the Assembly of Kosovo.

References

Politicians from Mitrovica, Kosovo 1986 births Living people Kosovo Serbs Kosovan politicians Serbian Progressive Party politicians {{DEFAULTSORT:Simic, Igor