Marko Milačić ( sr-cyrl, Марко Милачић; born 22 May 1985) is a Montenegrin politician. He is the founder and current president of minor right-wing populist political party
True Montenegro. He ran for
president of Montenegro in the
2018 election, and received 2.8% of the popular vote.
Biography
Milačić completed elementary and
secondary school
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in
Podgorica
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, graduated and obtained a master's degree in journalism at the
Faculty of Political Sciences of the
University of Montenegro. He is fluent in
Serbian and
English. Milačić worked for the
Montenegrin national public service (RTCG) as a reporter and news presenter for several years.
Political career
In 2014, Milačić became one of the founders of the
non-governmental organization
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Movement for Neutrality of Montenegro.
Through the years he maintained cooperation with a number of populist politicians and activists, such as Croatian
Human Shield founders
Ivan Pernar and
Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, Bosnian conceptual artist
Damir Nikšić and Serbian-Canadian film director and right-wing political activist
Boris Malagurski.
He decided to enter political life in 2016 by joining the newly founded
Mladen Bojanić's ''Resistance to Hopelessness'' (OB), an anti-establishment and anti-
NATO
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political movement, and become member of
Democratic Front (DF) electoral list for
2016 parliamentary election, but failed to enter the Parliament. After Bojanić's abandonment of OB in 2017, Milačić became de facto leader of movement. In February 2018, he established the populist political party
True Montenegro and ran as the party's candidate for President of Montenegro in the
April 2018 elections; he received 2.8% of the votes.
Milačić kandidat za predsjednika Crne Gore
Vijesti
See also
* Montenegrin presidential election, 2018
* Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2020
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Milacic, Marko
1985 births
Living people
Politicians from Podgorica
Serbs of Montenegro