Veroljub "Verko" Stevanović ( sr, Верољуб Верко Стевановић, born 17 September 1946,

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 ...

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) is a Serbian politician who served as the mayor of Kragujevac from 1996 to 2000 and again from 2004 to 2014.

Biography

Stevanović graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,

University of Kragujevac The University of Kragujevac ( sr, Универзитет у Крагујевцу, Univerzitet u Kragujevcu) is a public university in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is the oldest and the largest higher education institution in Šumadija and Western Ser ...

City of Kragujevac Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the List of cities in Serbia, 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 Se ...

. His political career began in 1993, when he won his first seat in the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, as a Member of the

Serbian Renewal Movement The Serbian Renewal Movement ( sr-cyrl, Српски покрет обнове, Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) is a liberal and monarchist political party in Serbia. History The Serbian Renewal Movement party was founded in 1990 through the merger ...

. In 2006, he was Vice President of the Serbian Renewal Movement. In the interim Government of the Republic of Serbia 2000 he was co- minister of industry. In 1996, he became the first democratic Mayor of the City of Kragujevac. In the first direct elections for mayor, held in 2004, he was re-elected Mayor for the City of Kragujevac. He is one of the founders of the regional party, Together for Kragujevac in Kragujevac, which won the local elections in 2008.Together for Šumadija
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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 as ...

for the first time as member of

. After leaving SPO, he was elected to the

several times on various lists: DSS– NS list (

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(

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(

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) and For Just Serbia (

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). Now, he is a councilor of City Assembly of

, as a member of

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City of KragujevacTogether for KragujevacTogether for Šumadija

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Together for Šumadija Together for Šumadija ( sr, Заједно за Шумадијy / Zajedno za Šumadiju) is a minor liberal-conservative political party in Serbia. Founded on May 2, 2009 by the ''Together for Kragujevac'' movement and by a series of citizen adv ...

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Biography

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