Borko Stefanović

Borko Stefanović (born 5 February 1974 as Borislav Stefanović He was the political director of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former chief of staff for Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić.

Early life Stefanović was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, SFR Yugoslavia in 1974. He graduated from high school in Sremski Karlovci before enrolling in the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law, where he graduated in 1999. Stefanović played bass guitar in a punk rock band called 'Generacija bez budućnosti' (Generation without a Future), which last performed in 2011.

Political career Stefanović first became politically involved in 1999, when he joined the Citizens' Alliance (known in Serbian as GSS, the acronym for Građanski savez Srbije), an anti-nationalist party. He left the party in 2001, after which he had no party affiliation for two years. The sale did not involve a public tender, since other enterprises were not offered a chance to bid. The conditions to which Stefanović negotiated were criticized in the local media, as the price at which NIS was sold at approximately one fifth of its market value at the time.

In December 2010, Stefanović was appointed by president Boris Tadić as Serbia's representative for the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations. Jeremić sought to completely remove the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of having any participation in the talks, allegedly saying that his Ministry and the negotiations "have contradicting goals". In September 2011, Jeremić replaced Stefanović as chief of staff of the MSP with Serbia's former ambassador to Slovakia, Danko Prokić.

Split from the Democratic Party From 2015, Stefanović became engaged in a political rift with the Democratic Party. In a manifesto outlining several long-term goals, Stefanović argued for the creation of a "Confederation of the West Balkans", which would unite Serbia with other states in the Balkans, after which foreign debts of the united countries would be frozen for five years. He added, "I am not for any nationalization and I am for integration into the European Union, but I sympathetically see some parts of the program of the Greek Syriza." He said that the "last straw" was when the Democratic Party nominated Bojan Dimitrijević, who sought the rehabilitation of Milan Nedić, as a candidate in a local election in Čukarica. However, Bakić quickly left the project after disagreements with Stefanović on the party's strategy and politics. In the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, Levica Srbije recorded their debut election with 0.95% of the vote.

On November 23, 2018, Stefanović was injured from a physical assault while talking to an audience in Kruševac. He blamed the assault on incumbent president Aleksandar Vučić, who Stefanović accused of creating a "gruesome atmosphere" for opposition politicians.