Darko Laketić (; born 10 January 1975) is a medical doctor and 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 Laketić was born in Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the school of medicine at the University of Priština and has earned a master's degree (2005) and Ph.D. (2007) from the medical faculty at the University of Niš. Laketić has worked at the Dr Aleksa Savić general hospital in Prokuplje since 2000 and has been president of the Serbian Medical Association in Toplica District since 2010.DARKO LAKETIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 October 2017.
Politician Before 2014 Laketić became president of the Progressive Party's municipal board in Prokuplje in 2011. He was given the lead position on the party's electoral list for the Prokuplje municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local electionsЗбирна изборна листа за одборнике СО Прокупље, Municipality of Prokuplje, 29 April 2012, accessed 29 December 2020. and was elected when the list won twelve mandates, finishing second against the list of the Democratic Party."Izbori 2012: Rezultati i postizborna trgovina" , Vreme, 14 May 2012, accessed 29 December 2020.
He also received the 115th position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving coalition list in the concurrent 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017. The list won seventy-three mandates, and the Progressive Party subsequently became the dominant force in a new coalition government. Laketić was not elected to parliament, but he was appointed as an assistant minister of health in October 2013.DARKO LAKETIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 27 October 2017.
Parliamentarian Laketić was promoted to the eighty-sixth position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 seats.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 re-elected to a second term in the 2016 election on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list, which won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.On this occasion, she received the fifty-eighth position on the list. See Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
Laketić was elected as chair of the parliamentary health and family committee on October 7, 2016.Izabran novi predsednik Odbora za zdravlje i porodicu, Radio Television of Serbia, 7 October 2016, accessed 27 October 2017. During the 2016–20 parliament, he was also a member of the committee on administrative, budget, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process Parliamentary Assembly; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with the Czech Republic and Kenya; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States of America, Venezuela, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.DARKO MD - PhD LAKETIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020. Laketić also chaired a special assembly commission to investigate the consequence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1999 bombing on the health of the citizens of Serbia, as well as the environment, with a special focus on the impact of depleted uranium projectiles. The commission concluded that children born in Serbia between 1999 and 2015 were "exposed to a toxic factor that caused them to be susceptible to malignant diseases.""Findings of commission probing consequences of NATO attacks", B92, 19 March 2019, accessed 22 July 2020.
He received the sixty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election"Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. and was elected to a third term in the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He remains the chair of the health committee, a member of the administrative committee, and the chair of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with the Czech Republic and Kenya. He is also now a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary dimension of the Central European Initiative and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Greece, and Montenegro.DARKO MD - PhD LAKETIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 December 2020.
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