Vladica Maričić () is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career Maričić was born in Niš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a master's degree in law from the University of Niš and is pursuing a doctorate in law at the same institution."VLADICA MARIČIĆ", Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 30 August 2020.Vladica Maričić, politiKAS, accessed 30 August 2020.
Politician Maričić has been the Progressive Party's commissioner for the Niš community of Delijski Vis."ДЕЦИ ДЕЛИЈСКОГ ВИСА НА ДАР", Serbian Progressive Party – Niš, 30 December 2017, accessed 30 August 2020. He began his political career at the municipal level, receiving the twenty-sixth position on the party's electoral list for the Niš city assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections.ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА КАНДИДАТА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА НИША ("КОАЛИЦИЈА ПОКРЕНИМО НИШ (СРПСКА НАПРЕДНА СТРАНКА, НОВА СРБИЈА, ПОКРЕТ СНАГА СРБИЈЕ - БК, ПОКРЕТ СОЦИЈАЛИСТА), Izbori 2012, City of Niš, p. 2. The list won seventeen mandates, and he was not initially elected.Predrag Blagojević, "Proglašeni konačni rezultati izbora za Niš", Južne vesti, 14 May 2012, accessed 30 August 2020. He was subsequently given the 184th position (out of 250) on the party's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 August 2020. The list won 158 mandates, and he was again not returned.
He was awarded a mandate for the Niš city assembly in either late 2014 or early 2015, after the resignation of another party member from that body.See Скупштина града , City of Niš, accessed 30 August 2020; and Скупштина града , City of Niš, accessed 30 August 2020. A comparison of these two documents indicates that Maričić joined the assembly at some point between October 2014 and February 2015. He served until 2016. He was given the thirty-eighth position on the party's list in the 2016 local electionsИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА КАНДИДАТА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА НИША ("КОАЛИЦИЈА ПОКРЕНИМО НИШ (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Izbori 2016, City of Niš, p. 2. and was not re-elected when the list won twenty-eight seats.ОДЛУКУО ДОДЕЛИ МАНДАТА, Izbori 2016, City of Niš.
Parliamentarian Maričić was given the 147th 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 was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a member of the subcommittee on the information society and digitalization; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process parliamentary assembly; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Sao Tome and Principe; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Hungary, Israel, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.VLADICA MARICIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.
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