Dejan Mihaljica () is a politician in Serbia. Formerly a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO), he joined the breakaway Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije, POKS) in 2017. Mihaljica served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020.
Early life and career Mihlajica graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sports and Tourism, with a focus on marketing in sports. He is a marketing manager and has been the owner of Nova Trgovina for several years.ЧЛАНОВИ/ИЦЕ ОПШТИНСКОГ ВЕЋА , Municipality of Temerin, accessed 2 September 2020.
Politician The SPO contested the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and the concurrent 2012 Serbian local elections in the Preokret ("U-Turn") alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party and other parties. Mihaljica received the lead position on the alliance's electoral list in TemerinSlužbeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 45 Number 2 (25 April 2012), p. 9. and was elected when the list won two mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 45 Number 6 (24 July 2016), p. 2. He also appeared on the alliance's list for the provincial election.He received the thirty-second position. See Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 7 - ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ-ВОЈВОЂАНСКИ ПРЕОКРЕТ (ЛДП-СПО-ВП-СДУ-БОГАТА СРБИЈА) - кандидати за посланике) , Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 2 September 2020. This list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the Vojvodina assembly.
The SPO subsequently joined an alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Mihaljica received the fourteenth position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial electionИзборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа) , Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three mandates. He also received the second position on the Progressive list for the Temerin municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local electionsSlužbeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 49 Number 10 (13 April 2016), p. 1. and was re-elected when the list won a narrow local majority with seventeen out of thirty-three mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 49 Number 12 (28 April 2016), p. 4. Following the election, he was appointed to the municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) with responsibility for local economic development and investments.Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 49 Number 13 (8 June 2016), p. 8.ЧЛАНОВИ/ИЦЕ ОПШТИНСКОГ ВЕЋА , Municipality of Temerin, accessed 2 September 2020. His time in the latter role was brief, as he could not hold a dual mandate as a provincial assembly member and a member of the municipal council. He ultimately chose to serve in the assembly and resigned from council on 19 July 2016.Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 49 Number 18 (21 July 2016), p. 3. He chaired the culture and information committee in the provincial assembly.Maja Leđenac, "Priznanje negatorki genocida", Radio Free Europe, 29 November 2018, accessed 2 September 2020. The article title is unrelated to Mihaljica.
The SPO experienced a serious split in 2017, and several critics of Vuk Drašković's leadership left to form the POKS. Mihaljca was among those who joined the new party,"ЖЕЛЕ ОБНОВУ КРАЉЕВИНЕ СРБИЈЕ: Отцепљени носе мандате СПО", Novosti, 13 June 2017, accessed 2 September 2020. serving as the first president of its regional board in Vojvodina.Да се Војводина поново пробуди!, Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, 10 December 2017, accessed 2 September 2020. He received the eleventh position on the POKS list for the Vojvodina assembly in the 2020 provincial election and was not re-elected when the list won five mandates.Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 6 ЗА КРАЉЕВИНУ СРБИЈУ - ЗА СРПСКО ВОЈВОДСТВО (Покрет обнове Краљевине Србије, Монархистички фронт) - Жика Гојковић) - Изборна листа , Izbori 2020, Provincial Electoral Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 25 August 2020.
He also received the fourth position on the POKS list for Temerin in the 2020 local electionsПРОГЛАШЕНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Temerin, accessed 2 September 2020. and was elected to a third term in the local assembly when the list won four seats.Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 53 Number 13 (21 August 2020), p. 3. (Strangely, Mihaljica received an endorsement from the Monarchist Front, a small group that contested the election in an alliance with the POKS, at the municipal level.) He resigned his mandate on 21 August 2020.Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 53 Number 21 August 2020, p. 20.
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