Nemanja Popović (politician)

Nemanja Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Поповић; born 1990) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2020 to 2022 and was chosen as the mayor of Raška in October 2022. Popović is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).

Private career

Popović has a bachelor's degree in history. He has participated in the SNS's Academy of Young Leaders program.^[1]

Politician

Member of the Raška assembly

Popović received the sixteenth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Raška municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local elections^[2] and was elected when the list won a majority victory with nineteen out of thirty-five mandates.^[3] He was promoted to the third position on the party's list for the 2020 local elections,^[4] and was re-elected when the list won twenty-seven mandates.^[5]

Parliamentarian

Popović received the 191st position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election^[6] and narrowly missed direct election when the list won a landslide majority with 188 of 250 mandates. He received a mandate on 28 October 2020 as the replacement for another party member. During his term in the assembly, Popović was a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee and the parliamentary friendship groups with Cuba, Hungary, Israel, the Philippines, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.^[7]

Popović did not appear on the SNS's list for the 2022 parliamentary election, and his term ended when the new assembly convened on 1 August 2022.

Mayor of Raška

In October 2022, most elected delegates of the Progressive Party withdrew their support from mayor Ignjat Rakitić, due to what was described as "urban planning chaos" in Kopaonik. Rakitić was dismissed as mayor, and Popović was chosen as his replacement.^[8]

References

^ NEMANJA POPOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 26 December 2020.
^ Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 158 (11 April 2016), p. 1.
^ Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 159 (10 May 2016), p. 1.
^ Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 214 (10 June 2020), p. 1.
^ Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 215 (22 June 2020), p. 1.
^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
^ NEMANJA POPOVIC, Archived 2021-12-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 October 2022.
^ "Smenjen predsednik opštine Raška, 'pao' zbog urbanističkog haosa na Kopaoniku", Danas, 9 October 2022, accessed 17 October 2022. This source lists Popović's first name as "Nebojša."

[1] NEMANJA POPOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 26 December 2020.

[2] Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 158 (11 April 2016), p. 1.

[3] Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 159 (10 May 2016), p. 1.

[4] Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 214 (10 June 2020), p. 1.

[5] Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 215 (22 June 2020), p. 1.

[6] "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.

[7] NEMANJA POPOVIC, Archived 2021-12-07 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 October 2022.

[8] "Smenjen predsednik opštine Raška, 'pao' zbog urbanističkog haosa na Kopaoniku", Danas, 9 October 2022, accessed 17 October 2022. This source lists Popović's first name as "Nebojša."