Novak Maksimović () is a politician in Serbia. He was elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2020 provincial election as a member of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije, POKS).
Private career Maksimović is an economist. He lives in Novi Sad.Novak Maksimović, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 29 August 2020.
Politician Maksimović entered political life as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO). This party contested the 2016 Serbian local elections in Novi Sad on the electoral list of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS), and Maksimović was awarded the seventy-fourth position.Službeni List, Volume 35 Number 24 (13 April 2016), p. 1203. The list won thirty-eight seats.Službeni List, Volume 35 Number 26 (25 April 2016), p. 1230. Maksimović was not elected and did not serve in the sitting of the local assembly that followed. He did, however, serve as president of the local community of Budisava in the city."Radna akcija u Budisavi", Danas, 4 June 2014, accessed 29 August 2020.
The SPO experienced a split in 2017, and several dissident members left the party to form the POKS. Maksimović joined the new party and became its commissioner for Budisava."Све више нових чланова ПОКС у Новом Саду и околини!", Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, 21 April 2017, accessed 29 August 2020. He is now a member of the party's main board and co-ordinator for the South Bačka District.Главни одбор, Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, accessed 29 August 2020.
Maksimović received the sixth position on the POKS list for the 2020 provincial election. The list won five seats, and he was not initially elected; he was, however, awarded a mandate on 24 July 2020 as a replacement for fifth-ranked candidate Marija Vojinović, who declined to serve.Саопштење, 24 July 2020, Izbori 2020, Provincial Electoral Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 25 August 2020. He is now a member of the committee on issues of constitutional and legal status of the province, the committee on urban and spatial planning and environmental protection, and the committee on youth and sports.Novak Maksimović, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 25 December 2020.
He also received the fifty-sixth position on the POKS list for the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election."Ko je na listi koalicije Za Kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 14 March 2020, accessed 18 August 2020. The list missed the electoral threshold to win seats in the assembly.
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