Đorđe Milićević ( sr-cyr, Ђорђе Милићевић; born 11 December 1967) is a politician in

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. He was a vice-president (alternately known as a deputy prime minister) in the

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from 2016 to 2020 and is now serving his third term in the

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. He is a member of the

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Early life and career

Milićević was born in

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, in what was then the

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in the

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. He graduated from the

University of Novi Sad The University of Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; ) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad is ...

Faculty of Economics and subsequently worked at the Republic Directorate of Commodity Reserves. In 2004, he began working in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

's public utility, ''Zavod za izgradnju Grada''. From 2004 to 2008, he served on various working groups and committees of the City Assembly of Novi Sad.

Politician

Milićević was an advisor to the vice-president (i.e., deputy speaker) of the Vojvodina provincial assembly from 2008 to 2012. He received the forty-sixth position on the Progressive Party's coalition

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in for the Novi Sad assembly in the

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and was not elected when the list won fifteen mandates.

Provincial politics

Milićević appeared in the fifth position on the Progressive Party's list in the

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and was elected when the list won fourteen mandates. The election was won by the Democratic Party and its allies, and Milićević served in

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for the next four years. He was chosen as a deputy speaker of the assembly and held this role from 2012 to 2016. Vojvodina switched to a system of full

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in the 2016 provincial election. Milićević was given the sixth position on the Progressive Party's list and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 seats. The Progressive Party and its allies formed a new government after the election, and Milićević was appointed as a vice-president of the provincial administration, working under

Igor Mirović Igor Mirović ( sr-Cyrl, Игор Мировић; born 12 July 1968) is a Serbian politician, economist, and poet who served as the president of the Government of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party The ...

. In 2018, he co-hosted a Vojvodina trade reception in

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. The following year, he led a delegation of the Vojvodina government to the

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. He was promoted to the fourth position on the Progressive list in the 2020 provincial election and was elected to a third assembly term when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six seats. He was not re-appointed to government but is now a member of the assembly committee on budget and finance and the assembly committee on security.Đorđe Milićević
Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 January 2021.

References

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