Jovan Marković (politician)
Serbian politician
Jovan Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Марковић; born 1972) is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Užice from 2008 to 2012 and served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2016. During his time as an elected official, Marković was a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS).
Early life and private career
Marković was born in Užice, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Niš Faculty of Philosophy in 1996 and received the title of Graduate Pedagogue for Physical Culture. He worked as a teacher and was the director of Užice's kindergarten program from 2001 to 2008. He later received a master's degree from Užice's Faculty of Teacher Education in 2011, with the academic title Master of Didactic and Methodological Sciences.
Politician
Marković joined the DS in 2000. The party contested the 2000 Serbian local elections as part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to Slobodan Milošević's administration. Marković ran as the DOS's candidate in Užice's thirteenth division and was defeated.
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