Nebojša Marjanović ( sr-cyr, Небојша Марјановић; born 1959) is a politician in

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

. He has been the

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Boljevac Boljevac ( sr-cyr, Бољевац, ; ro, Bulioț) is a town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of eastern Serbia. According to 2011 census, the population of the town is 3,332, while population of the municipality is 12,865. Hist ...

since 2004 and briefly served in the

National Assembly of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are proportionally elected to four-year terms by secret ballot. The a ...

in August 2020. Marjanović is a member of the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012. Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...

Early life and private career

Marjanović was born in Pirot, in what was then the

People's Republic of Serbia , life_span = 1944–1992 , status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia , p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia , flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg , p2 ...

in the

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. He is a doctor specializing in emergency medicine.

Politician

Marjanović was first elected as mayor of Boljevac in the

2004 Serbian local elections Local elections were held in Serbia (excluding Kosovo) on 19 September and 3 October 2004, concurrently with the 2004 Vojvodina provincial election. This was the only local election cycle held while Serbia was a member of the State Union of Serbi ...

as a candidate of the

Democratic Party of Serbia The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Initially known and formed as Democ ...

(''Demokratska stranka Srbije'', DSS). He continued as mayor under the same party's banner following the

2008 Serbian local elections Local elections were held in Serbia on 11 May 2008, concurrently with the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election and the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election. A re-vote was held at three poling stations in Belgrade on 18 May 2008 due to irregularities i ...

. Marjanović also was included on the DSS's coalition electoral list with New Serbia in the

2008 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 11 May 2008 to elect members of the National Assembly. The election was held barely a year after the previous parliamentary election. There were 6,749,886 eligible electors who were able to vote in ...

, in the 141st position. The list won thirty mandates, and he was not included in his party's assembly delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and the mandates were often assigned out of numerical order. Marjanović could have received a parliamentary mandate despite his list position, but in the event he did not.) He subsequently left the DSS and joined the

United Regions of Serbia The United Regions of Serbia ( sr, Уједињени региони Србије, Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije; abbr. УРС, URS) was a regionalist, liberal-conservative political party in Serbia. It was founded on 16 May 2010 as a political coa ...

(URS), which he led to victory in Boljevac in the 2012 Serbian local elections. He also appeared in the thirty-fourth position on the URS's electoral list in the 2012 parliamentary election. Following a 2011 electoral reform, assembly mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists; the list won sixteen mandates, and he was not returned. Marjanović aligned himself with

Boris Tadić Boris Tadić ( sr-cyr, Борис Тадић, ; born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psycholo ...

's New Democratic Party for the 2014 parliamentary election. Following the election, he joined the Progressive Party, which he led to a local victory in

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and to a local majority victory in

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Parliamentarian

Marjanović received the 183rd position on the Progressive Party's '' Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children'' list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. He resigned from the assembly on 20 August 2020Current Legislature
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 December 2020. as he was not able to hold a dual mandate as mayor.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marjanovic, Nebojsa 1959 births Living people People from Pirot People from Boljevac Mayors of places in Serbia Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Democratic Party of Serbia politicians United Regions of Serbia politicians New Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Serbian Progressive Party politicians