Đorđe Kosanić ( sr-cyr, Ђорђе Косанић; born 24 October 1967) is a

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politician. He has served in the

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since 2012 as a member of

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Early life and career

Kosanić was born in

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, then part of the

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in the

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. He is a professor of technical education in private life and has served as assistant director of the sports centre ''Mladost''.

Municipal politician

Kosanić was elected to the municipal assembly of Kragujevac in 2000 as a member of the

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. He remained with this party's assembly group until 2005, when he left to form his own political organization called ''Prestonica'', which described itself as supporting traditional Serbian values. In 2006, the group merged with United Serbia. In addition to serving as a member of the National Assembly, Kosanić remains a member of the Kragujevac city assembly as of 2017.

Member of the Assembly

United Serbia has contested every Serbian parliamentary election since 2008 as part of the

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's electoral alliance. Kosanić received the twenty-seventh position on the Socialist-led

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in the

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and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates. He was re-elected in both

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and

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. He currently serves as a member of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee; a member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of two other committees; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and

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.DJORDJE KOSANIC
National Assembly of Canada, accessed 3 October 2017. United Serbia has provided external support to Serbia's

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led by the

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since 2012, and Jevđić has served as part of the government's parliamentary majority since first being elected to the assembly.

References

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