Ostoja Mijailović ( sr-Cyrl, Остоја Мијаиловић; born 25 May 1979) is a Serbian entrepreneur, sports administrator, and politician.

Private career

An economist and entrepreneur based in

Čačak Čačak ( sr-Cyrl, Чачак, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Moravica District in central Serbia. It is located in the West Morava Valley. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population ...

, Mijailović is the owner and general manager of the Serbian company British Motors. He also served on the board of

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...

from May 2015 to April 2016, and in September 2017 he was appointed as the president of

KK Partizan Košarkaški klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Кошаркашки клуб Партизан, lit=Basketball Club Partizan), commonly known as Partizan Belgrade, or as Partizan Mozzart Bet for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball Sports cl ...

. In December 2017 he indicated that the latter organization was badly in debt and threatened by bankruptcy.

Political career

Mijailović was a member of New Serbia from 2000 to 2015. He served on the Čačak city council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) with responsibility for small and medium-sized businesses and was at one time a prominent ally of mayor Vojislav Ilić, the brother of New Serbia leader Velimir Ilić. He left New Serbia to join the Progressive Party in 2015, choosing in the process to resign his seat on council on the grounds that he had been an appointee of his former party. He received the 116th position on the Progressive Party's ''

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– Serbia Is Winning'' list in the

2016 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 24 April 2016. Initially, the election were originally due to be held by March 2018, but on 17 January 2016 Prime Minister of Serbia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called for a snap election cla ...

and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates. He is currently a deputy member of the parliamentary committee on the erbiandiaspora and

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in the region; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 15 December 2017.

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