Miloš Tošanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Тошанић; born 1964) is a politician in Serbia. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2016 and is now serving his third term in the municipal assembly of Lazarevac in Belgrade.
Private career edit
Tošanić was born in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He received a degree from the Faculty of Industrial Management at Union University in 2009, obtained a master's degree in 2010, and has pursued doctoral studies at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences.
He has been an advisor to Serbia's minister of energy, development, and environmental protection and has led the sports centre Kolubara.[1]
Politician edit
Municipal politics edit
Tošanić received the fifth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Lazarevac municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won ten mandates, finishing third against the lists of the Socialist Party of Serbia and the Democratic Party.[2][3] He was given the eleventh position on the Progressive Party's list for the 2016 Serbian local elections and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with twenty-seven out of sixty-one seats.[4][5] The Progressive Party formed a local coalition government after the election, and Tošanić was appointed to the municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government).[6]
Tošanić was re-elected to the Lazarevac assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections, in which the party won a majority victory with thirty-five seats.[7][8]
Parliamentarian edit
Tošanić was given the 106th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[9] He served in parliament for the next two years as a supporter of the government. During this time, he was a member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with France, Greece, Japan, Russia, and Switzerland.[10]
He was given the 202nd position on the party's list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was not re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[11]
References edit
- ^ MILOŠ TOŠANIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 28 January 2021.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 56 Number 21 (25 April 2012), p. 106.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 56 Number 32 (28 May 2012), p. 7.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 28 (13 April 2016), p. 77.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 60 Number 50 (9 May 2016), p. 11.
- ^ "Бојан Синђелић нови председник Градске општине Лазаревац", Municipality of Lazarevac, 30 June 2016, accessed 28 January 2021.
- ^ He received the twelfth list position. See Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 70 (6 June 2020), p. 3.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 64 Number 81 (26 June 2020), p. 2.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 13 January 2021.
- ^ МИЛОШ ТОШАНИЋ Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 28 January 2021.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 August 2020.