Nemanja Popović (; born 1990) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2020 to 2022 and was chosen as the mayor of Raška in October 2022. Popović is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).
Private career Popović has a bachelor's degree in history. He has participated in the SNS's Academy of Young Leaders program.NEMANJA POPOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 26 December 2020.
Politician Member of the Raška assembly Popović received the sixteenth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Raška municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local electionsSlužbeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 158 (11 April 2016), p. 1. and was elected when the list won a majority victory with nineteen out of thirty-five mandates.Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 27 Number 159 (10 May 2016), p. 1. He was promoted to the third position on the party's list for the 2020 local elections,Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 214 (10 June 2020), p. 1. and was re-elected when the list won twenty-seven mandates.Službeni glasnik (Opštine Raška), Volume 31 Number 215 (22 June 2020), p. 1.
Parliamentarian Popović received the 191st position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children 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 narrowly missed direct election when the list won a landslide majority with 188 of 250 mandates. He received a mandate on 28 October 2020 as the replacement for another party member. During his term in the assembly, Popović was a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee and the parliamentary friendship groups with Cuba, Hungary, Israel, the Philippines, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.NEMANJA POPOVIC, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 October 2022.
Popović did not appear on the SNS's list for the 2022 parliamentary election, and his term ended when the new assembly convened on 1 August 2022.
Mayor of Raška In October 2022, most elected delegates of the Progressive Party withdrew their support from mayor Ignjat Rakitić, due to what was described as "urban planning chaos" in Kopaonik. Rakitić was dismissed as mayor, and Popović was chosen as his replacement."Smenjen predsednik opštine Raška, 'pao' zbog urbanističkog haosa na Kopaoniku", Danas, 9 October 2022, accessed 17 October 2022. This source lists Popović's first name as "Nebojša."
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