Uglješa Marković
Угљеша Марковић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
3 August 2020
Substitute Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Assumed office
23 January 2023
Personal details
Born (1991-01-18) 18 January 1991
Belgrade, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partySPS

Uglješa Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Угљеша Марковић; born 18 January 1991) is a Serbian politician. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Early life and private career

Marković was born in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in the city and earned a bachelor's degree in economics. In 2017, he began work on a master's degree in the same field.[1]

Politician

Socialist Party

Marković was raised in a family of SPS supporters and became a party member in 2013. He was elected as president of the Socialist Youth of Serbia on 17 December 2017.[2][3]

In a 2019 interview, he was asked for his opinion of former Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. Marković described Milošević as a leader who emerged "at the wrong time, in the wrong place," though adding that his legacy included two landmark accomplishments for Serbia: the Dayton Agreement and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244.[4]

Municipal politics

Marković received the eighth position on the Socialist Party's electoral list for the Stari Grad municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local elections.[5] The list won four mandates; he was not immediately elected but received a mandate on 29 September 2016 as the replacement for another party member.[6][7] He was promoted to the fifth position on the SPS list in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list won six mandates.[8][9] He remains a member of the local assembly and has served on the committee for the implementation of Stari Grad's youth policy.[10]

Parliamentarian

Marković was given the fourth position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. This was tantamount to election, and he was indeed elected when the list won thirty-two mandates.[11] During the campaign, he highlighted the importance of Serbia's public health system established in the socialist era.[12] The SPS continued its participation in Serbia's coalition government after the election, and Marković supported the administration in the assembly.

In his first term, Marković was a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee; a deputy member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Slovakia and Suriname; and a member of the friendship groups with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Ghana, the Holy See, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Sierra Leone, Sweden, and Tunisia.[13]

He was promoted to the third position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won thirty-one seats.[14] He is now the chair of the spatial planning committee; a member of the foreign affairs committee; a deputy member of the economy committee and the security services control committee; again the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Suriname; and a member of the friendship groups with Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Caribbean countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Haiti, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis), China, Egypt, France, Ireland, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, New Zealand and the Pacific Island countries (Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Fiji, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands), Russia, Slovenia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates.[15] He was briefly a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) parliamentary assembly, where Serbia has observer status.[16][17]

Marković was appointed as a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in January 2023.[18] He is an alternate member of the committee on social affairs, health, and sustainable development, and serves with the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group.[19]

References

  1. ↑ UGLJEŠA MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Aleksandar Miladinović, "29 godina SPS-a: 'Način života' ili 'stranka devedesetih'", British Broadcasting Corporation Serbian, 20 July 2019, accessed 1 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Uglješa Marković izabran za predsednika Mladih socijalista Srbije", Nova srpska politička misao, 17 December 2017, accessed 1 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Aleksandar Miladinović, "29 godina SPS-a: 'Način života' ili 'stranka devedesetih'", British Broadcasting Corporation Serbian, 20 July 2019, accessed 1 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 28 (13 April 2016), p. 57.
  6. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 94 (30 September 2016), p. 31.
  7. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 34 (25 April 2016), p. 31.
  8. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 72 (10 June 2020), p. 43.
  9. ↑ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 79 (22 June 2020), p. 27.
  10. ↑ UGLJEŠA MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 May 2021.
  11. ↑ "Ko je sve na listi SPS-JS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 7 March 2020, accessed 30 April 2021.
  12. ↑ Marko Tašković, "UGLJEŠA MARKOVIĆ, PREDSEDNIK OMLADINE SPS Epidemija korone je dokazala da je zdravstveni sistem iz doba socijalizma efikasan", Blic, 27 May 2020, accessed 1 May 2021.
  13. ↑ УГЉЕША МАРКОВИЋ, Archived 2022-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 August 2022.
  14. ↑ "Ko su kandidati liste SPS-JS-ZS „Ivica Dačić – Premijer Srbije“ za poslanike", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 28 April 2022.
  15. ↑ UGLJESA MARKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 January 2023.
  16. ↑ "Socijalista Uglješa Marković na čelu skupštinskog Odbora za prostorno planiranje", Danas, 1 September 2022, accessed 5 January 2023.
  17. ↑ Members (Serbian delegation), Archived 2022-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, 16 December 2022, accessed 5 January 2023. He is no longer listed as a member as of January 2023. See Members (Serbian delegation), 5 January 2023.
  18. ↑ UGLJESA MARKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 January 2023.
  19. ↑ Mr Uglješa MARKOVIĆ (Serbia, SOC), Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 9 September 2023.
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