Nikola Jolović () is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career Jolović was born in Novi Pazar, in the Sandžak region of what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised and educated in the city, he later earned a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Belgrade. He returned to Novi Pazar after his graduation and worked at P.P. Fiđoni.Nikola Jolović, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 8 August 2017.
Politician Municipal politics Jolović was active in municipal politics prior to his election to the national assembly. He received the eighth position on the Progressive Party's coalition electoral list for the Novi Pazar municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections.Službeni List (Novi Pazar), Volume 19 Number 5 (20 April 2012), p. 20. The list won only two mandates, and he was not returned.Službeni List (Novi Pazar), Volume 19 Number 7 (10 May 2012), p. 3. This notwithstanding, he was chosen as deputy mayor of the city in June 2013, after the Progressives joined the local municipal coalition government. He served in this role until 2014, when he was required to stand down after becoming a member of the national assembly.
He became president of the party's board in Novi Pazar in December 2013.Nikola Jolovic new president of SNS Novi Pazar, Sandžak Press, 28 December 2013, accessed 8 August 2017. He was initially chosen as president on an acting basis. He was elected to the city assembly in the 2016 local electionsSlužbeni List (Novi Pazar), Volume 23 Number 4 (27 April 2016), p. 5. and re-elected in the 2020 elections,ZBIRNA IZBORNA LISTA za izbor odbornika u Skupštini grada Novog Pazara, Izborna komisija grada Novog Pazara (Izbori 2020 – DOKUMENTA), accessed 14 September 2020. in each case after receiving the lead position on the Progressive Party's coalition list; the list won five mandates in 2016 and six in 2020.Službeni List (Novi Pazar), Volume 23 Number 2 (12 April 2015), p. 18.Izborna komisija grada Novog Pazara (Izbori 2020 – OBAVEŠTENJA), 22 June 2020, accessed 14 September 2020.
Parliamentarian Jolović was given the 109th 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 landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.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 26 January 2017. He was promoted to the seventy-third position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list for the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Александар Вучић - Србија Побећује) , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. During the 2016–20 parliament, he was a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Germany, Italy, Russia, Syria, and the United States of America.Nikola Jolović, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 August 2017.
He received the 159th position on the Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 election and was elected for a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates."Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. He continues to serve on the finance committee and is now a deputy member of the human rights committee and the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications, as well as being a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the United States of America.NIKOLA JOLOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.
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