Đurađ Jakšić ( sr-cyr, Ђурађ Јакшић, ; born 22 July 1977) is a Serbian historian and politician.
Career
He ran for mayor of
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
in the 2012 and 2016 mayoral elections. Jakšić is the
Serbian Radical Party
The Serbian Radical Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска радикална странка, Srpska radikalna stranka, ''SRS'') is an ultranationalist political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1991, and its founder and current leader is Vojislav Še ...
president of the city council of Novi Sad.
In December 2012, he arose controversy by forming a petition requesting a street in Novi Sad be named after
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...
. He previously arose controversy in March 2007 when he suggested that
Veljko Milanković and
Mladen Bratić get streets named after them in Novi Sad.
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1977 births
Living people
People from Drniš
Politicians from Novi Sad
Serbs of Croatia
21st-century Serbian historians
Writers from Novi Sad
Serbian Radical Party politicians
University of Novi Sad alumni