Tamara Milenković Kerković
Tamara Milenković Kerković | |
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Тамара Миленковић Керковић | |
 Milenković Kerković in 2023 | |
| Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia | |
| In office 1 August 2022 – 6 February 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 January 1965 Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Dveri |
Tamara Milenković Kerković (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Миленковић Керковић; born 28 January 1965) is a Serbian lawyer, academic, and politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2022 to 2024 as a member of the right-wing Dveri party.
Early life and career[edit]
Milenković Kerković was born in Niš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Niš Faculty of Law (1990) and a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. She began working at the University of Niš Faculty of Economics in 1992 and became a full professor in the field of commercial law in 2014. She has published widely in her field.[1]
Politician[edit]
Milenković Kerković joined Dveri in 2016. Before this time, she was not a member of any political party. As of 2024, she is one of Dveri's vice-presidents and the leader of its city board in Niš.[2]
Parliamentarian[edit]
Dveri contested the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with Žika Gojković's branch of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). Milenković Kerković was given the fifth position on their combined list and was elected when the list won ten mandates.[3] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won the election, and Dveri served in opposition.
During her assembly term, Milenković Kerković was a member of the labour committee[a] and the culture and information committee, a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process parliamentary assembly, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Sri Lanka, and a member of the friendship groups Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, and Qatar.[4]
In a March 2023 interview, Milenković Kerković argued that the decision of western governments to recognize the Republic of Kosovo as an independent country had set a dangerous precedent that could exacerbate national difficulties in Spain, Cyprus, and other European states. In the same interview, she recounted Dveri's activities in opposing school textbooks that included what she described as "LGBT ideology" and "gender ideology."[5]
Dveri contested the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ). Milenković Kerković appeared in the eighth position on their list, which did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation.[6] Her term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024.
2024 local elections[edit]
Milenković Kerković later called for all parties opposed to the Serbian Progressive Party's dominance of Serbian political life to unite on a single list for Niš in the 2024 Serbian local elections.[7] While this did not happen, several opposition parties came together to form the We Choose Niš alliance. Dveri was not formally part of the alliance, but Milenković Kerković nonetheless received the second position on its list.[8] Technically, her endorsement was from the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS).[9]
The official preliminary results show We Choose Niš winning ten seats. Overall, the Serbian Progressive Party's alliance and the Russian Party (RS) have been reported as holding a one-seat majority over the combined forces of the opposition.[10] The opposition has challenged these results and charged electoral fraud.[11]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Formally known as the Committee on Labour, Social Issues, Social Inclusion, and Poverty Reduction.
References[edit]
- ^ Curriculum Vitae (English) – Tamara Milenković Kerković, University of Niš Faculty of Economics, accessed 23 July 2023.
- ^ Проф. др Тамара Миленковић Керковић, Dveri, accessed 23 July 2023.
- ^ Vojin Radovanović, "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Patriotskog bloka za kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 23 February 2022, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ TAMARA Prof. Dr MILENKOVIC KERKOVIC, Archived 2023-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 29 September 2023, accessed 13 June 2024.
- ^ "'The recognition of Kosovo sets a catastrophic precedent in Europe': An Interview with Tamara Milenković Kerković", The European Conservative, 5 March 2023, accessed 23 July 2023.
- ^ "Proglašena izborna lista stranke Zavetnici i pokreta Dveri: Pogledajte ko su kandidati", Danas, 5 November 2023, accessed 22 April 2024.
- ^ Tamara Radovanović, "Izbori u Nišu: Ko hoće na zajedničku opozicionu listu, ko se premišlja, a ko izričito odbija", Južne vesti, 1 March 2024, accessed 13 June 2024.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Niša), Volume 32 Number 51 (17 May 2024), p. 5.
- ^ ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА КАНДИДАТА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА НИША БИРАМО НИШ-ЂОРЂЕ СТАНКОВИЋ, Izbori 2024, Niš City Election Commission, accessed 13 June 2024.
- ^ ОДЛУКA О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ПРЕЛИМИНАРНИХ РЕЗУЛТАТА ИЗБОРА ЗА ИЗБОР ОДБОРНИКА У СКУПШТИНИ ГРАДА НИША ОДРЖАНИХ 2.6.2024. ГОДИНЕ, Niš City Election Commission, 9 June 2024, accessed 10 June 2024.
- ^ "Čija pobeda u Nišu je nesporna: Još se čeka zvanično proglašenje pobednika", N1, 5 June 2024, accessed 7 June 2024.