Nikola Nešić ( sr-cyr, Никола Нешић; born 1988) is a

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n politician. He was elected to the

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in 2022 on the

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of the We Must (''Moramo'') coalition and is now a member of the Together (''Zajedno!'') party.

Early life and private career

Nešić was born in

Kragujevac Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Serbia, and is situated on ...

, in what was then the

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in the

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. Raised in the city, he holds a

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in electrical engineering and computing from the Department of Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electronics in

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ...

and has worked at Serbia Broadband.

Politician

Local politics

Nešić co-founded the local party New Strength (''Nova Snaga'') in Kragujevac in 2014 and was recognized as its leader. The party contested the 2016 local election in Kragujevac on the

of Boris Tadić's

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(''Socijaldemokratska stranka'', SDS), and Nešić appeared in the seventh position on the party's

. The list won six mandates, and he was not immediately elected. He did, however, receive a mandate on 6 June 2016 as the replacement for another candidate. Some elected members of the SDS left the party soon after the election to join the governing coalition led by the rival Serbian Progressive Party (''Srpska napredna stranka'', SNS). Nešić wrote unfavourably of this situation, and of his experience working with the SDS generally, in an article published the following year. New Strength contested the 2020 Serbian local elections in Kragujevac on an independent coalition list called ''Alternativa''. Nešić received the second position on the list and was re-elected when it won four mandates. In June 2021, New Strength collectively joined "Action" (''Akcija''), a citizens' initiative established by the party

Together for Serbia Together for Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Заједно за Србију, Zajedno za Srbiju, ZZS) was a Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It was formed by Dušan Petrović in 2012, and he l ...

(''Zajedno za Srbiju'', ZZS). The following month, New Strength made the decision to collectively join Together for Serbia outright.

Parliamentarian

Together for Serbia and "Action" contested the

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as part of the We Must (''Moramo'') coalition. Nešić was awarded the fifth position on the coalition's electoral list and was elected when it won thirteen mandates. Shortly after the election, Together for Serbia and "Action" merged into a new party called Together (''Zajedno!''). Nešić is now a member of this party. In the national assembly, he serves as a member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; and a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the

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.NIKOLA NESIC
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 October 2022. The SNS and its allies won the election, and the ''Together'' group serves in

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References

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