Miloš Parandilović

Miloš Parandilović ( sr-cyr, Милош Парандиловић; born 26 March 1989) is a politician in Serbia. He was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election as a candidate of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (''Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije'', POKS). He is now the leader of the New Face of Serbia.

Early life and private career

Parandilović was born in Priboj, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in the community and attended business and technical college in nearby Užice. He is a specialist professional civil engineer.

Politician

Municipal politics

Parandilović joined the Serbian Renewal Movement (''Srpski pokret obnove'', SPO) in 2007. This party contested the 2012 Serbian local elections in Priboj on the electoral list of the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS), and Parandilović was included on the list in the twentieth position. The list won five seats, and he was not immediately elected. He was, however, awarded a mandate on 7 June 2013 as the replacement for another party member. He initially served in a parliamentary group with the DS but later joined the group of the Serbian Progressive Party (''Srpska napredna stranka'', SNS).

The SPO ran on the SNS's coalition list the 2016 local elections in Priboj. Parandilović received the thirty-fifth position on the list and was not re-elected when it won a narrow majority victory with twenty-two out of forty-one seats.

In 2017, a group of SPO members opposed to Vuk Drašković's continued leadership left the party and founded the POKS. Parandilović joined the new party and later appeared in the fourth position on its list in the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

Parandilović was given the tenth position on the POKS's ''For the Kingdom of Serbia'' list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. This list also fell below the electoral threshold. His name appeared on the POKS's list in Priboj in the concurrent 2020 local elections, although he was not himself a candidate.

2021 POKS split

On 23 December 2021, it was reported that the POKS presidency had met to remove party leader Žika Gojković from office, on the grounds that his four-year term had expired in October. It was further reported that the presidency had dissolved the Belgrade board of the party for "inactivity" and appointed Vojislav Mihailović as commissioner.

Parandilović refuted the claim that Gojković had been removed as leader, saying that the aforementioned meeting of the presidency had been illegitimately convened by a group of party officials seeking to carry out a coup. He added that, according to the party's constitution, meetings of the presidency can only be convened by the president or vice-president, rather than what he described as "a private group that deceives the public and makes decisions that are legally and morally invalid."

The party subsequently became divided into rival groups, respectively led by Gojković and Mihailović, each claiming to be the only legitimate party associstion. Parandilović emerged as a prominent member of Gojković's group.

Election to the National Assembly

Gojković's POKS won the right to use the party name in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election, which the party contested in an alliance with Dveri. Parandilović was chosen as the bearer of their combined list and was given the seventh list position. At the press conference during the election, he said that the alliance's first priority was the re-establishment of a kingdom, saying that power had become consolidated around a single leader in the republican system. He also called for what he described as "economic patriotism.""Parandilović nosilac liste Patriotskog bloka za parlamentarne izbore"
''Danas'', 3 March 2022, accessed 2 May 2022. He was elected when the Dveri–POKS list won ten mandates and is scheduled to take a seat in parliament when the assembly convenes.

References

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1989 births
Living people
People from Priboj
Serbian Renewal Movement politicians
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia politicians