Tamara Milenković Kerković (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Миленковић Керковић; born 28 January 1965) is a Serbian lawyer, academic, and politician. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2022 as a member of the right-wing Dveri party.
Tamara Milenković Kerković | |
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Тамара Миленковић Керковић | |
 Milenković Kerković in 2023 | |
| Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia | |
| Assumed office 1 August 2022 | |
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| Born | 28 January 1965 Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Dveri |
Early life and career edit
Milenković Kerković was born in Niš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Niš Faculty of Law (1990) and a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. She began working at the University of Niš Faculty of Economics in 1992 and became a full professor in the field of commercial law in 2014. She has published widely in her field.[1]
Politician edit
Milenković Kerković joined Dveri in 2016. Before this time, she was not a member of any political party. As of 2023, she is one of the party's vice-presidents.[2]
Dveri contested the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with Žika Gojković's branch of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). Milenković Kerković was given the fifth position on their combined list and was elected when the list won ten mandates.[3] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won the election, and Dveri serves in opposition.
She is a member of the culture and information committee and the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process parliamentary assembly; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Sri Lanka; and a member of the friendship groups Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, and Qatar.[4]
In a March 2023 interview, Milenkovič Kerković argued that the recognition of Kosovo as an independent country set a dangerous precedent in Europe and could ultimately exacerbate difficulties in Spain, Cyprus, and other countries. In the same interview, she recounted Dveri's activities in opposing school textbooks that included what she described as "LGBT ideology" and "gender ideology."[5]
References edit
- ^ Curriculum Vitae (English) – Tamara Milenković Kerković, University of Niš Faculty of Economics, accessed 23 July 2023.
- ^ Проф. др Тамара Миленковић Керковић, Dveri, accessed 23 July 2023.
- ^ Vojin Radovanović, "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Patriotskog bloka za kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 23 February 2022, accessed 20 July 2023.
- ^ TAMARA Prof. Dr MILENKOVIC KERKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 July 2023.
- ^ "'The recognition of Kosovo sets a catastrophic precedent in Europe': An Interview with Tamara Milenković Kerković", The European Conservative, 5 March 2023, accessed 23 July 2023.