Miljan Damjanović
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Miljan Damjanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљан Дамјановић; born 1984) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.
Early life and career
Damjanović was born in Prizren in the province of Kosovo, Serbia, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a graduate economist.
Political career
Damjanović joined the Radical Party in 2003 and was elected as a municipal official in the Stari Grad area of Belgrade in 2008. He subsequently became the leader of the Radical Party organization in Belgrade and a member of the party presidency. In 2016, he announced a surprising coalition government in Stari Grad that included the Radical Party, its traditional ideological rival the Democratic Party, and other groups.
Damjanović received the ninety-second position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and the thirty-first position in the 2014 election. The party did not cross the electoral threshold to gain representation in the National Assembly on either occasion. He was promoted to the eighth position on the Radical list for the 2016 election and was declared elected when the party won twenty-two mandates.
As of 2017, Damjanović is a member of the parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija; a deputy member of the European integration committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Belarus, China, and Russia. He is also a deputy member of the Serbian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and is an alternative for Milovan Bojić in the committee on social health and sustainable development.
Damjanović announced in March 2017 that the Radical Party would send an international parliamentary delegation to Crimea to mark the three-year anniversary of the area's de facto joining of the Russian Federation.