Goran Danilović (

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: Горан Даниловић; born 1971) is a Montenegrin politician, former member of

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and former

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. In 2016 he was the founder and was named the first president of the conservative political party called United Montenegro.

Biography

Early life

Danilović was born in 1971 in

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(now

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) which at the time was a part of the

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. He finished middle school at the Morača Monastery, high school in

Kolašin Kolašin (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Колашин, ) is a town in northern Montenegro. It has a population of 2,989 (2003 census). Kolašin is the centre of Kolašin Municipality (population 9,949) and an unofficial centre of Morača region, nam ...

and later he graduated at the

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Nikšić Nikšić (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Никшић, ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 32,046 (2023 census) located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa ...

. He is one of the founders and the first editors of religious and cultural Radio Svetigora and was the editor in chief of the renewed weekly paper "Voice of the Montenegrins".

Political career

He was one of the founders and former vice-president of both

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(2009-14) and

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(2015-17) political parties.Ko je Goran Danilović – kandidat za predsjednika?
objektiv.me He served as the Minister of Interior Affairs in the provisional

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which lasted from May to November 2016. After the 2016 parliamentary election conservative faction of the DEMOS led by Danilović defected the party and formed new political subject United Montenegro, represented by two MPs in the

. On 1 May 2019, the United Montenegro decided to sign an agreement with Socialist People's Party (SNP),

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(RP) and Independent parliamentary group to form a new catch-all political alliance under the name For the Benefit of All (Da svako ima). For the Benefit of All alliance eventually dissolved prior the parliamentary election in August 2020. In July 2020 Danilović's United Montenegro, jointly with the Workers' Party and Independent group in the parliament (composed of former members of SNP and

parties), agreed to form a new cultural conservative political alliance under the name Popular Movement (NP), employing a more significant

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and

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discourse, supporting 2019-2020 clerical protests in Montenegro and

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rights in Montenegro, continuing its activity within the joint electoral list with Democratic Front (DF) and the Socialist People's Party (SNP). On 15 October 2021, he was named the acting director of the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education. On 15 June 2023, he was appointed director. He was removed from his position by the government on 14 January 2025.

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Biography

Early life

Political career

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