Nenad Milenković ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Миленковић; born 19 February 1972) is a former politician in

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. He was briefly a member of the

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from 2007 to 2008 and served as

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of the

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municipality of

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from 2008 to 2012. A member of the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS) while an elected official, he later became a founding member of

Together for Serbia Together for Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Заједно за Србију, Zajedno za Srbiju, ZZS) was a centre-left political party in Serbia. It was formed by Dušan Petrović in 2012, and he led the party until 2016, when he was succeeded by Nebojša ...

(''Zajedno za Srbiju'', ZZS).

Private career

Milenković was born in Belgrade, in what was then the

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in the

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. He holds a degree in economics.

Politician

Elected official

Milenković appeared in the second position on the Democratic Party's

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for the municipal assembly of New Belgrade in the

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and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with twenty-eight out of sixty-seven seats. He received the 140th position on the DS's list in the

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. The list won sixty-four mandates, and he was not initially chosen for his party's delegation. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Milenković's position on the list – which was in any event largely alphabetical – had no formal bearing on whether he received a mandate.) On 14 November 2007, he was awarded a mandate as a replacement for another party member who had left the national assembly. During this period, the Democratic Party was part of an unstable

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with the rival

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(''Demokratska stranka Srbije'', DSS), and Milenković served as part of the administration's majority. His term was brief; a new assembly election was called in 2008, and Milenković was not a candidate. Milenković led the DS's list to another plurality victory in New Belgrade for the 2008 local elections and was afterwards chosen as mayor. He served in this role for the next four years. He also appeared on the DS's list for the

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in the 2008 local elections and was awarded a mandate when the list won a plurality victory with forty-five out of 110 seats.

Departure from DS and after

Following the DS's defeat in the

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Dragan Đilas Dragan Đilas ( sr-cyr, Драган Ђилас, , born 22 February 1967) is a Serbian businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2008 to 2013. From 25 November 2012 until 31 May 2014, he served as the President of the ...

was selected as the party's new leader. Milenković opposed Đilas's leadership and left the party to join the breakaway Together for Serbia party, serving as the leader of its Belgrade board. In December 2013, Milenković was arrested on a charge of embezzlement pertaining to his time as mayor of New Belgrade."Uhapšen bivši predsednik Opštine Novi Beograd Nenad Milenković"
''Blic'', 12 December 2013, accessed 15 June 2021. Online accounts do not indicate how the matter was resolved.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Milenkovic, Nenad 1972 births Living people Politicians from Belgrade Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Members of the City Assembly of Belgrade Mayors of places in Serbia Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Together for Serbia politicians