Dragan Marković ( sr-cyr, Драган Марковић; born 1965), known as Dragan Marković Markoni, is an administrator and politician in
Serbia
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. He was for many years a high-ranking member of
Yugoslavia
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's
State Security Service (''Resor državne bezbednosti'', RDB) and Serbia's successor
Security Intelligence Agency
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(''Bezbednosno-informativna agencija'', BIA). Marković has served in the
National Assembly of Serbia
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since 2020 as a member of the
Party of United Pensioners of Serbia
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(PUPS).
Early life and intelligence career
Marković was born in
Smederevska Palanka, in what was then the
Socialist Republic of Serbia
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in the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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. He trained as a special education teacher. He joined the RDB in 1992 and rose to a high-ranking position in the agency. Marković was a state secretary in Serbia's
ministry of internal affairs from 2008 to 2012 and subsequently became BIA deputy director. He briefly served as acting BIA director between 5 September and 25 October 2013. Media reports from this period indicate that
Socialist Party of Serbia leader
Ivica Dačić, then the
prime minister of Serbia, supported Marković to lead Serbia's police services but that his candidacy was opposed by the
Serbian Progressive Party. Marković resigned as BIA deputy director in April 2014 and instead became an adviser to the director. He was later assigned to oversee the BIA center 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 ...
.
In a 2019 interview, Marković said that the BIA had in 2012 prevented an attempt by Rodoljub Milović, then the director of the Criminal Police Directorate (''Uprava kriminalističke policije'', UKP), to monitor the communications of
Aleksandar Vučić. Marković also accused Milović of hiring a convicted criminal to monitor his activities on an official visit to
Vienna
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and said that he had filed a criminal complaint against Milović on this basis.
He became acting director of
FK Radnički Niš in 2017.
Political career
The PUPS contested the
2020 Serbian parliamentary election on the
electoral
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated ...
list of the Serbian Progressive Party. Marković received the 101st position on the list and was elected when it won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. Although he was described in a August 2020 news article as an independent candidate who had been endorsed by the PUPS, he subsequently identified as a member of the party.
Marković is a member of the assembly's defence and internal affairs committee, the environmental protection committee, and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self government; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the
Central European Initiative
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; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with
Austria
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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,
Canada
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,
China
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, the
Czech Republic
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,
Greece
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,
Hungary
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Ireland
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,
Israel
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,
Italy
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,
Jordan
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Russia
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Slovenia
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,
Spain
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Syria
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Turkey
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, and the
United Arab Emirates
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DRAGAN M. MARKOVIC
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 12 January 2021.
References
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1965 births
Living people
Politicians from Belgrade
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Members of the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative
Party of United Pensioners of Serbia politicians