Milan Garašević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Гарашевић; born 14 April 1982) is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Kovačica from 2016 to 2020 and has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2020. Garašević is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career edit

Garašević is an entrepreneur. He lives in Kovačica.[1]

Politician edit

Municipal politics edit

Garašević received the second position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for Kovačica in the 2016 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-one out of thirty-nine seats.[2][3] He was selected as mayor after the election and served in this role for the next four years.[4][5]

He led the Progressive list in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list won twenty-one of twenty-nine seats in a reduced assembly.[6][7] He could not continue as mayor after his election to the provincial assembly but was instead chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the municipal assembly.[8]

Assembly of Vojvodina edit

Garašević was given the twenty-first position on the Progressive Party's list for the Vojvodina assembly in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six out of 120 seats.[9] He was chosen as chair of the assembly committee on agriculture in October 2020[10] and is also a member of the economy committee.[11]

References edit

  1. ^ Milan Garašević, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  2. ^ Službeni list (Opštine Kovačica), Volume 37 Number 9 (13 April 2016), p. 1.
  3. ^ Službeni list (Opštine Kovačica), Volume 37 Number 12 (26 April 2016), p. 1.
  4. ^ Službeni list (Opštine Kovačica), Volume 37 Number 15 (21 May 2016), p. 776.
  5. ^ "Međunarodni dan maternjeg jezika obeležen u Kovačici", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 21 February 2020, accessed 6 March 2021.
  6. ^ Službeni list (Opštine Kovačica), Volume 41 Number 11 (9 June 2020), p. 366.
  7. ^ Službeni list (Opštine Kovačica), Volume 41 Number 13 (26 June 2020), p. 1.
  8. ^ "Милан Гарашевић изабран за председника Скупштине општине Ковачица, Јарослав Хрубик за председника општине", kovacica.org, 21 August 2020, accessed 6 March 2021.
  9. ^ Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Čanak jedini poslanik opozicije koji je predsednik skupštinskog odbora, pogledajte ko su ostali", 021.rs, 4 November 2020, accessed 6 March 2021.
  11. ^ Milan Garašević, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 February 2021.