Aleksandar Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Јовановић; born 12 February 1968) is a journalist, editor, television personality, and politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).
Private life and media career edit
Jovanović lives in Belgrade. He has served at different times as editor-in-chief and creative director of telegraf.rs, a tabloid news portal.[1] He has also appeared on the reality television programs Veliki brat (Big Brother; 2007) and Farma (The Farm; 2009).[2] In 2013, he attracted unfavourable media coverage for hitting KK Partizan coach Duško Vujošević with a basketball during a game against KK Crvena zvezda.[3]
Politician edit
The PUPS contested the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party. Jovanović received the 117th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list[4] and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, a deputy member of the culture and information committee, the environmental protection committee, and the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with China, Egypt, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.[5]
References edit
- ^ Miloš D. Miljković, "Nova lica sa liste vladajuće SNS u Narodnoj skupštini", Danas, 6 August 2020, accessed 7 August 2020.
- ^ Aleksandar Jovanović, IMDb, accessed 7 August 2020.
- ^ "Urednik Telegrafa gađao Vujoševića", B92, 3 April 2013, accessed 7 August 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ ALEKSANDAR JOVANOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 13 January 2021.