Ivan Stoilković

Ivan Stoilković (, , born 15 February 1962) is a Macedonian politician serving as deputy prime minister of North Macedonia and minister of inter-community relations since 2024. An ethnic Serb, he has been the president of the Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia (DPSM) since 2001 and a member of the Assembly of North Macedonia from 2002 to 2024.

Early life, education and business career He was born on 15 February 1962 in Kumanovo. After finishing high school, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. In 1992, he founded a construction company LAMAX CO in Kumanovo and was its director until 1992. He is an ethnic Serb.

Political career In 1992, he joined the Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia and was later elected party president in 2001. From 2002 to 2024, he served as a member of the Assembly of North Macedonia. He was the chair of the Parliamentary Group of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia for Cooperation with the Parliament of the Russian Federation.

In a 2018 interview he said that relations between Serbia and Macedonia have never been worse because of Macedonia's "anti-Serbian politics". In May 2024, Stoilković participated in a security forum in Moscow. In June 2024, Stoiilković was a participant at the All-Serbian Assembly in Belgrade.

Following the 2024 North Macedonian parliamentary election, Stoilković was elected to the Assembly of North Macedonia once again and was nominated as deputy prime minister of North Macedonia and minister of inter-community relations by Hristijan Mickoski. His nomination was criticized by North Macedonia's Albanian political parties.

Political positions Stoilković holds pro-Russian and pro-Serbian political positions. He criticized the decision of the Government of North Macedonia to recognize Kosovo's independence and to support the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 78/282, which designated 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica. In a post on social media, he referred to the Srebrenica genocide as "necrophilic Disneyland", which was subject to criticism by a lawyer, Party of Democratic Action of Macedonia and Social Democratic Union of Macedonia.