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Enis Imamović (Serbian Cyrillic: Енис Имамовић; born June 25, 1984) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bosniak community. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (Stranka demokratske akcije Sandžaka; SDA).
Early life and private career
Imamović was born in the Sandžak community of Novi Pazar, at the time part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a degree in biochemistry from the State University of Novi Pazar and is a professor of the subject.
Political career
Imamović was a SDA spokesperson before his election to the assembly. In January 2009, he charged that a mob encouraged by rival political parties tried to assassinate SDA leader Sulejman Ugljanin during a confrontation at the headquarters of the Bosniak List for a European Sandžak, a political alliance headed by the SDA. The confrontation was sparked by the SDA-led coalition's refusal to obey a court order (subsequently overturned) requiring them to leave their headquarters at the House of Culture in Novi Pazar. The Sandžak Democratic Party, one of the rival groups identified by Imamović, has rejected the assertion that anyone sought to harm Ugljanin, let alone assassinate him. The incident remains a source of division in Sandžak politics and has never been fully investigated. In 2015, Imamović accused local authorities of witness intimidation and other abuses of power in the matter.
Imamović received the third position on the SDA's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won two mandates, and Imamović was not immediately declared elected; Ugljanin resigned his seat shortly after the election, however, and Imamović was awarded the vacant mandate on July 25, 2012. He was promoted to the second position on the SDA's list for the 2014 election and was declared re-elected when the party won three seats.
In 2014, Imamović proposed a type of autonomy for the Sandžak similar to that of South Tyrol within Italy.
He once again received the second position on the SDA's list for the 2016 election and was returned for a third term when the party won two seats. The SDA currently sits in a parliamentary alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, and Imamović serves as the deputy leader of the parliamentary grouping. He is also a member of the parliamentary committee on human and minority rights and gender; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of two other committees; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean; and a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary dimension of the Central European Initiative.