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Đorđe Todorović ( sr-Cyrl, Ђорђе Тодоровић; born 1991) is a Serbian politician. He served in the
Serbian national assembly The National Assembly ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ), fully the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (), is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are ...
on an almost continuous basis from 2020 to 2024 as a member of the
Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...
(SNS).


Private career

Todorović was born in
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, Serbia, in what was then the
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. He is from the Belgrade municipality of Palilula and is an engineer of organizational sciences.


Politician


Municipal politics

Todorović appeared in the nineteenth position on the Progressive Party's
electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...
for the Palilula municipal assembly in the
2016 Serbian local elections Local elections were held in most cities and municipalities of Serbia (excluding the disputed territory of Kosovo) on 24 April 2016, with repeat voting later taking place in some jurisdictions. The elections were held concurrently with the 2016 Serb ...
and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with twenty-seven out of fifty-five seats. He did not seek re-election in 2020. He was described in a February 2020 article as a student in the SNS Academy of Young Leaders program.


Parliamentarian

Todorović was given the sixth position on the SNS-led '' For Our Children'' list in the
2020 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 21 June 2020. Initially organized for 26 April 2020, they were postponed by a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia, COVID-19 pandemic in the country. In the period before the ...
. This was
tantamount to election A safe seat is an electoral district which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combination of both. With such seats, there is very little chance of a seat changing h ...
, and he was indeed elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. In his first term, he was a member of the foreign affairs committee and the committee on constitutional and legislative issues, a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the committee on Kosovo–Metohija, a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the
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, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with
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, and a member of sixty other parliamentary friendship groups. Todorović criticized the media outlets N1 and
Nova S Nova is a cable television network launched on 25 March 2019. 15 December 2017 as TOP kanal. Nova S, alongside the channels Nova TV, Nova BH and Nova M are part of United Media and owned by United Group.Together We Can Do Everything Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop (, AV–SNSDS), commonly shortened to just Serbia Must Not Stop, is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of Serbia, led by the Serbian Progressive Party. SNS gained its parliamentary status ...
'' list in the
2022 Serbian parliamentary election General elections were held in Serbia on 3 April 2022 to elect both the president of Serbia and Member of parliament, members of the National Assembly (Serbia), National Assembly. Initially, parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held in ...
and was not immediately re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 seats. He received a mandate in October 2022 as the replacement for another party member. In the 2022–24 parliament, Todorović was member of the spatial planning committee, a deputy member of the judiciary committee and the committee on
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, the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Lebanon and
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, and a member of 118 other parliamentary friendship groups. He was a vocal supporter of
Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić, (born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, Deputy Prim ...
's policies toward
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, saying that the Serbian president was working to prevent international recognition of Kosovo as an independent state and to defend the disputed territory's Serb population. Todorović described opposition figure
Vuk Jeremić Vuk Jeremić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Јеремић, ; born 3 July 1975) is a Serbian politician and diplomat who served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 2012 to 2013 and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia from 2 ...
as a "false altruist" interested only in building his reputation among the western powers. He was not a candidate in the
2023 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 17 December 2023 to elect members of the National Assembly (Serbia), National Assembly. While they were initially scheduled to be held by 30 April 2026, Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia ...
,"Pogledajte ko su kandidati na Vučićevoj listi Srbija ne sme da stane"
''Danas'', 3 November 2023, accessed 29 March 2024. and his term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Todorovic, Djordje 1991 births Living people Politicians from Belgrade Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Serbian Progressive Party politicians