Miloš Jovanović (, ; born 19 August 1976) is a Serbian politician, lawyer, and a political scientist. He has been the president of the
New Democratic Party of Serbia, formerly known as the Democratic Party of Serbia, since 2017, previously serving that role in acting capacity from late 2016 until his election as president in 2017. He is a
docent
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at the
Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade
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. Jovanović was a presidential candidate in the
2022 election, in which he placed third with 6% of popular vote.
Early life and education
He was born on 19 August 1976 in
Belgrade
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. He received his high school education at the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium. He graduated from the
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
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in 1999 at the Sorbonne Law School, and in 2000 from the Department of Political Science at the Sorbonne.
At the same university, he completed his master's degree in
international relations
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in 2001 with a paper on the topic: ''La reconnaissance internationale des indépendances slovène et croate ("International Recognition of Slovenian and Croatian Independence").'' His mentor was the professor .
He defended his doctoral dissertation in December 2010 on the topic: ''Légitimité et légitimation du recours à la force dans l’après-guerre froide. Étude de cas: l’intervention militaire de l’OTAN contre la République fédérale de Yougoslavie (1999), ("Legitimacy and legitimation of the use of force in the post-Cold War period. Case study: NATO military intervention against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999")''.
During his studies, he learned English and French.
He has both Serbian and French citizenships.
Work
From 2001 to 2005, he was in charge of conducting exercises in Constitutional Law and Political Institutions, as well as Comparative Political Systems at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris and the Pantheon-Sorbonne.
From 2006 to 2011, he worked at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade as a research associate. In October 2011, he was elected assistant professor, in February 2014, assistant professor, and in March 2019, associate professor of Introduction to European Integration Law and International Relations at the
Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade
The Faculty of Law of the University in Belgrade (/''Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu''), also known as the Belgrade Law School, is one of the first-tier educational institutions of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is locate ...
, where he continues to teach.
He was a member of the management board of the
Slobodan Jovanović Fund. Some of the members of the board are:
Matija Bećković
Matija Bećković ( sr-Cyrl, Матија Бећковић, ; born 29 November 1939) is a Serbian poet, writer and academic.
Life
Bećković was born in Senta, in the multiethnic province of Vojvodina (then Danube Banate, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) ...
(president),
Kosta Čavoški,
Slobodan Rakitić
Slobodan Rakitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Ракитић; 30 September 1940 – 1 January 2013) was a Serbian writer and politician.
Biography
Rakitić was born in Vlasovo, Raška, Serbia. He attended the elementary school in Raš ...
,
Vladeta Janković
Vladeta Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Владета Јанковић; born 1 September 1940) is a Serbian university professor, diplomat and politician. A former member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), Janković previously served as the Federal R ...
,
Vojislav Koštunica
Vojislav Koštunica ( sr-cyrl, Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician who served as the last President of Serbia and Montenegro, president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the Prime Min ...
and
Slobodan Samardžić
Slobodan Samardžić ( sr-cyr, Слободан Самарџић) is a Serbian academic and politician who served as the Minister for Kosovo and Metohija from 2007 to 2008.
Early years and education
Samardžić was born in Belgrade in 1953 to Se ...
.
Politics
Since July 2007, he has been the advisor to the
Minister for Kosovo and Metohija, Slobodan Samardžić for international legal issues, and he was a member of the Serbian delegation in the negotiation process on the future status of
Kosovo and Metohija under the auspices of the international mediators.
In February 2008, he was appointed one of the two coordinators of the legal team of the
Government of the Republic of Serbia.
He was the temporary vice-president of the Democratic Party of Serbia city board in
Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...
and the political advisor to the president of the Democratic Party of Serbia,
Vojislav Koštunica
Vojislav Koštunica ( sr-cyrl, Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician who served as the last President of Serbia and Montenegro, president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the Prime Min ...
, and after that the vice-president of the party.
After the
2012 Serbian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 6 May 2012 to elect members of the National Assembly. The elections were held simultaneously with provincial, local, and presidential elections.
Background
The 2008 parliamentary elections result ...
s, he became a member of the
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
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. He was a member of the Delegation to the
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
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, and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Home Affairs.
On 9 October 2013, he returned the mandate to the Democratic Party of Serbia, but remained the party's vice-president. Shortly after, he resigned from all positions in the party, because he believed that the party leadership was not doing everything necessary to preserve
Kosovo and Metohija as a part of
Serbia
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, and that the attitude of the party towards the government was too mild. Above all, he believed that it was necessary to gather all patriotic forces into one coalition, which would consist of both political organisations and intellectuals and prominent public figures, and which would be a necessary opposition to the Serbian political system within which, with 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 ...
coming to power, consensus was reached on the surrender of Kosovo and Metohija. He has written and spoken about it in public since the very signing of the
Brussels Agreement, in April 2013.
He is the president of the
Democratic Party of Serbia
The New Democratic Party of Serbia (, , abbr. NDSS), known as the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) until 2022, is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Miloš Jovanović serves as the current president of NDSS.
DSS was formed as ...
since 28 May 2017.
Jovanović ran for mayor at the
2018 Belgrade City Assembly election, and received 1.12% of the votes.
In November 2019, Jovanović announced a new coalition for 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 ...
called "Broom 2020", along with the group of small political movements like the Human Shield, Movement for the Indigenous of Kraljevo, Team for Life, and with the president of the Military Syndicate of Serbia, Novica Antić. The party only won 2.2% of the votes failing to pass the census to enter the parliament.
On 21 July 2020, Jovanović announced a possible change of the name of the party.
In May 2021, his party formed
coalition
A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political, military, or economic spaces.
Formation
According to ''A G ...
with the
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia for the
2022 Serbian general election. The coalition won 5.37% of the popular vote, thus secured 15 seats in the
National Assembly
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. Jovanović also run for the president the same year. He won 6.10% of the votes in the 1st round, which made him the third best ranked candidate in the elections.
Jovanović's party changed its name to ''New Democratic Party of Serbia'' following the 15th assembly on 29 May 2022.
Views
Jovanović is a self described right wing politician, and a
eurosceptic
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. He claims that the
European Union
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is a dead project, and that there should be an open debate in Serbia about the country joining the European Union.
He is against the recognition of
Kosovo
Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...
by Serbia, and claims that the best possible solution is keeping the status quo between Serbia and its breakaway province.
In an interview for ''
Danas'' in May 2020, Jovanović talked about the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election campaign, and the
Yugoslav Wars
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. When commenting on the conflicts, he stated:
Jovanović is also a denier of the
Srebrenica genocide
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units ...
.
Personal
He served in the
Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro
The Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Војска Србије и Црне Горе, Vojska Srbije i Crne Gore, included ground forces with internal and border troops, naval forces, air and air defense forces, and civil d ...
as a member of the
63rd Parachute Brigade and participated in the International Parachuting All-Around Competition in 2006.
He is married, and has two children.
Publications
''Jovanović is the author of several professional and newspaper articles, some of which are:''
* Miloš Jovanović
“Le Royaume-Uni et le plan Briand : une réaction toujours d’actualité ?” in Yves Petit, Branko Rakić, Maja Lukić-Radović (dir.), L’idée d’Union européenne de 1929 à 2016: du projet d’Aristide Briand au retrait du Royaume-Uni, Univerzitet u Beogradu – Pravni fakultet, Belgrade, 2017, pp. 41–56.
* Ивана Крстић, Милош Јовановић, „Међународноправни статус НДХ" у Борис Беговић, Зоран С. Мирковић (ур.), Правни поредак Незавсине Државе Хрватске, Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду, 2017, стр. 183–216.
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Ка неопходном препороду српске војске, у Светлана Курћубић Ружић (уред.), Ка српском становишту, Евро-Ђунти, Београд 2014, стр. 127–152.
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У потрази за снажном државом – или како излечити институционалну импотентност ‘Петооктобарске републике, у Светлана Курћубић Ружић (уред.), Ка српском становишту, Евро-Ђунти, Београд 2014, стр. 95–125.
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Полупредседнички режим француске V Републике, у Оливер Николић, Владан Петров (прир.), Увод у право Француске, Институт за упоредно право/Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду, Београд 2013, pp. 93–119.
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Француска, НАТО и ‘Европа одбране’, Анали Правног факултета у Београду, бр.2/2013, pp. 197–214.
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Сербия и Европейский Союз. Вопрос безопасности или политика абсурда, ЗВЕНЬЯ, Экспертное издание Фонда исторической перспективы, 2013 №1 (16), Москва, pp. 139–174.
* „O putevima i stranputicama", Danas, 2013.
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Послехладноратовски свет између идеологије и политике силе, Српска политичка мисао, бр. 2, 2013, pp. 187–204
* �
, Политика, 2013.
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Изградња ЕУ кроз призму Заједничке безбедносне и одбрамбене политике, Европско законодавство, 42/12 (2012), pp. 313–333.
* „Recognition of Kosovo Independence as a Violation of International Law", Belgrade Law Review, 2008, Vol. 3. стр. 108–140.
* �
Доктрина праведног рата и међународно право. Међународни проблеми, Vol. LIX, бр. 2–3, Jun 2007, pp. 243–265.
* „A Comment on the Judgement of the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning the Application of the Genocide Convention", Review of international affairs, Vol. LVII, No. 1125-1126, January–June (2007). стр. 5–15.
* �
Тужба БиХ за геноцид пред Међународним судом правде: правна разматрања и политичке последице, Међународна политика, бр. 1123, јули-септембар 2006, pp. 5–13.
* „Питање независности Косова и Метохије у огледалу међународног јавног права", у Слободан Ерић (прир.), Косово и Метохија – аргументи за останак у Србији, Геополитика, Београд, 2006, pp. 93–118.
References
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Living people
Democratic Party of Serbia politicians
New Democratic Party of Serbia politicians
1976 births
Serbian nationalists
Politicians from Belgrade
Lawyers from Belgrade
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Serbian political scientists
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University alumni
Candidates for President of Serbia
21st-century Serbian lawyers