Lepomir Ivković ( sr-cyr, Лепомир Ивковић; born 18 February 1959) is a Serbian actor and politician. He served in the Belgrade city assembly from 2018 to 2022 and has been a member of Serbia's

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since 2022. Ivković is a member of the

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(SNS).

Early life and acting career

Ivković 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

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, where he studied under Milenko Maričić. He has appeared in film, television, and stage roles since the 1970s, and his body of work includes ''Sedam sekretara SKOJ-a'' (1978), ''Smrt gospodje Ministarke'' (1992), and ''District 13: Ultimatum'' (2009). In 1985, he became a member of the

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Political activities

Ivković was a supporter of

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in the 1990s. In December 1996, amid large-scale protests against Milošević's rule in Belgrade and throughout the country, he was prominent in organizing a pro-Milošević counter-protest at the

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fountain. He later joined the SNS and supported

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's candidacy in the

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. He appeared in the forty-sixth position on the party's

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in the

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and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 110 seats. He served for the next four years as a supporter of the city government.

Parliamentarian

Ivković was given the tenth position on the SNS's list in the

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and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with 120 out of 150 seats. In his first term, he was a member of the assembly's culture and information committee, a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and

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in the region, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with

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, and a member of the friendship groups with

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, and

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. He received the twenty-fifth position on the SNS's list in the 2023 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with 129 seats. He is now a member of the culture and information committee, the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, and the parliamentary friendship group with Greece.LEPOMIR IVKOVIC
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 13 August 2024.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivkovic, Lepomir 1959 births Living people Serbian actors Members of the City Assembly of Belgrade Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Serbian Progressive Party politicians