Momir Stojilković (; born 14 July 1961) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the local government of Vranje and has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020, serving with the Strength of Serbia Movement.
Early life and private career Stojilković graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun, Belgrade, with a degree in agricultural engineering (1986) and worked in the sector for several years.MOMIR STOJILKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 13 January 2021. He lives in Vranje."Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. He is related by marriage to Strength of Serbia Movement leader Bogoljub Karić: his son is married to Karić's daughter.Milica Dejanović, "Bivši potpredsednik vranjskih naprednjaka izabran za Karićevog potpredsednika", Južne vesti, 3 March 2020, accessed 8 August 2020.
Politician Municipal politicians Stojilković was a member of the Vranje city assembly prior to the 2012 Serbian local elections, serving with the Serbian Progressive Party.See Skupština grada (Odbornici) , City of Vranje, accessed 8 August 2020. He received the twenty-third position on the Progressive Party's electoral list in the 2012 municipal electionSlužbeni glasnik, Volume 19 Number 11 (25 April 2012), City of Vranje. and, as the list won fourteen mandates, was not initially returned.Službeni glasnik, Volume 19 Number 17 (25 May 2012), City of Vranje. He was awarded a new mandate in early 2014 as the replacement for another party delegate.See Skupština grada (Odbornici) , City of Vranje, accessed 8 August 2020; and Skupština grada (Odbornici) , City of Vranje, accessed 8 August 2020. A comparison of these two documents indicates that Stojilković replaced Jovanović at some point between January and April 2014.
He was promoted to the fourth position on the Progressive Party's list for the Vranje city assembly in the 2016 Serbian local electionsSlužbeni glasnik, Volume 23 Number 8 (11 April 2016), City of Vranje. and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with thirty-five mandates."Rezultati ponovljenih izbora potvrdili pobedu SNS-u Vranju", Južne vesti, 5 May 2016, accessed 8 August 2020. Following the election, he served as vice-president of the local Progressive Party board and as director of the municipal service organization JKP Komrad. He was removed from both of these positions in 2019 against the backdrop of a division of in the local branch of the party. Several workers from Komrad protested against his dismissal, without success.J. STOJKOVIĆ, "Vranje: Stojilković, ipak, ostao bez fotelje", Novosti, 16 May 2019, accessed 8 August 2020.
Stojilković subsequently left the Progressive Party and joined the Strength of Serbia Movement. In March 2020, he was selected as vice-president of the party.Milica Dejanović, "Bivši potpredsednik vranjskih naprednjaka izabran za Karićevog potpredsednika", Južne vesti, 3 March 2020, accessed 8 August 2020.
Parliamentarian The Strength of Serbia Movement contested the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party, and, notwithstanding his controversy with the local party board in Vranje, Strojilković received the 120th position on the party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list."Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. He was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. Stojilković is now a member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the environmental protection committee and the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Bahrain; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Belarus, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.MOMIR STOJILKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 13 January 2021.
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