Miloš Jovanović

Miloš Jovanović (, ; born 19 August 1976) is a Serbian politician, lawyer, and a political scientist. He has been the president of the New Democratic Party of Serbia, formerly known as the Democratic Party of Serbia, since 2017, previously serving that role in acting capacity from late 2016 until his election as president in 2017. He is a docent at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. Jovanović was a presidential candidate in the 2022 election, in which he placed third with 6% of popular vote.

Early life and education He was born on 19 August 1976 in Belgrade. He received his high school education at the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium. He graduated from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1999 at the Sorbonne Law School, and in 2000 from the Department of Political Science at the Sorbonne.

At the same university, he completed his master's degree in international relations in 2001 with a paper on the topic: La reconnaissance internationale des indépendances slovène et croate ("International Recognition of Slovenian and Croatian Independence"). His mentor was the professor .

Work From 2001 to 2005, he was in charge of conducting exercises in Constitutional Law and Political Institutions, as well as Comparative Political Systems at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris and the Pantheon-Sorbonne.

From 2006 to 2011, he worked at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade as a research associate. In October 2011, he was elected assistant professor, in February 2014, assistant professor, and in March 2019, associate professor of Introduction to European Integration Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, where he continues to teach.

In November 2019, Jovanović announced a new coalition for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election called "Broom 2020", along with the group of small political movements like the Human Shield, Movement for the Indigenous of Kraljevo, Team for Life, and with the president of the Military Syndicate of Serbia, Novica Antić. The party only won 2.2% of the votes failing to pass the census to enter the parliament.

On 21 July 2020, Jovanović announced a possible change of the name of the party.

In May 2021, his party formed coalition with the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia for the 2022 Serbian general election. The coalition won 5.37% of the popular vote, thus secured 15 seats in the National Assembly. Jovanović also run for the president the same year. He won 6.10% of the votes in the 1st round, which made him the third best ranked candidate in the elections.

Jovanović's party changed its name to New Democratic Party of Serbia following the 15th assembly on 29 May 2022.

Views Jovanović is a self described right wing politician, and a eurosceptic. He claims that the European Union is a dead project, and that there should be an open debate in Serbia about the country joining the European Union.

He is against the recognition of Kosovo by Serbia, and claims that the best possible solution is keeping the status quo between Serbia and its breakaway province.

In an interview for Danas in May 2020, Jovanović talked about the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election campaign, and the Yugoslav Wars. When commenting on the conflicts, he stated:

Jovanović is also a denier of the Srebrenica genocide.

Personal

He served in the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro as a member of the 63rd Parachute Brigade and participated in the International Parachuting All-Around Competition in 2006. He is married, and has two children.

Publications Jovanović is the author of several professional and newspaper articles, some of which are:

Miloš Jovanović, “Le Royaume-Uni et le plan Briand : une réaction toujours d’actualité ?”, in Yves Petit, Branko Rakić, Maja Lukić-Radović (dir.), L’idée d’Union européenne de 1929 à 2016: du projet d’Aristide Briand au retrait du Royaume-Uni, Univerzitet u Beogradu – Pravni fakultet, Belgrade, 2017, pp. 41–56. Ивана Крстић, Милош Јовановић, „Међународноправни статус НДХ" у Борис Беговић, Зоран С. Мирковић (ур.), Правни поредак Незавсине Државе Хрватске, Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду, 2017, стр. 183–216. „Ка неопходном препороду српске војске", у Светлана Курћубић Ружић (уред.), Ка српском становишту, Евро-Ђунти, Београд 2014, стр. 127–152. „У потрази за снажном државом – или како излечити институционалну импотентност ‘Петооктобарске републике", у Светлана Курћубић Ружић (уред.), Ка српском становишту, Евро-Ђунти, Београд 2014, стр. 95–125. „Полупредседнички режим француске V Републике", у Оливер Николић, Владан Петров (прир.), Увод у право Француске, Институт за упоредно право/Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду, Београд 2013, pp. 93–119. „Француска, НАТО и ‘Европа одбране’", Анали Правног факултета у Београду, бр.2/2013, pp. 197–214. „Сербия и Европейский Союз. Вопрос безопасности или политика абсурда", ЗВЕНЬЯ, Экспертное издание Фонда исторической перспективы, 2013 №1 (16), Москва, pp. 139–174. „O putevima i stranputicama", Danas, 2013. „Послехладноратовски свет између идеологије и политике силе", Српска политичка мисао, бр. 2, 2013, pp. 187–204 „Нада је умрла, живела нада!", Политика, 2013. „Изградња ЕУ кроз призму Заједничке безбедносне и одбрамбене политике", Европско законодавство, 42/12 (2012), pp. 313–333. „Recognition of Kosovo Independence as a Violation of International Law", Belgrade Law Review, 2008, Vol. 3. стр. 108–140. „Доктрина праведног рата и међународно право". Међународни проблеми, Vol. LIX, бр. 2–3, Jun 2007, pp. 243–265. „A Comment on the Judgement of the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning the Application of the Genocide Convention", Review of international affairs, Vol. LVII, No. 1125-1126, January–June (2007). стр. 5–15. „Тужба БиХ за геноцид пред Међународним судом правде: правна разматрања и политичке последице", Међународна политика, бр. 1123, јули-септембар 2006, pp. 5–13. „Питање независности Косова и Метохије у огледалу међународног јавног права", у Слободан Ерић (прир.), Косово и Метохија – аргументи за останак у Србији, Геополитика, Београд, 2006, pp. 93–118.