Mirko Jović (

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: Мирко Јовић; born 13 August 1959 in

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) is a

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n politician who stood for president of

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in the

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for the People's Radical Party, Serbia and Diaspora, and European Blok. He lives in Belgrade.

Political career

Together with

Vuk Drašković Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the co-founder and former leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, serving as president from 1990 to 2024. He also served as th ...

and

Vojislav Šešelj Vojislav Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шешељ, ; born 11 October 1954) is a Serbian politician and convicted war criminal. He is the founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Between 1998 and 2000, he was a D ...

, Jović founded the Serbian National Renewal (SNO) in 1989. However, the trio soon found themselves at political crossroads and their party disintegrated into three pieces by 1990. Jović kept the SNO, Šešelj formed the Serbian Chetnik Movement and then the Serbian Radical Party while Drašković formed the

Serbian Renewal Movement The Serbian Renewal Movement (, abbr. SPO) is a liberal and monarchist political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1990 by writer Vuk Drašković, who served as the party's president until 2024. Aleksandar Cvetković is the incumbent leader. ...

. The unpopularity of the Jović's nationalist agenda was most markedly shown in

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, his home province. This animosity toward the SNO ideology culminated in the spontaneous mass beating of Jović and the leadership of the party during the party meeting in city of Vrbas in 1991. In 1996, the SNO was merged into the Serb Democratic Party. He was a volunteer soldier in the

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, where he was the leader of the

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and called for "A Christian, Orthodox Serbia with no Muslims and no unbelievers". In the

he won 5,546 votes or 0.18% of the votes.

References

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