Milija Miletić


Milija Miletić is a politician in Serbia. He is the leader of the United Peasant Party, has served as president of the municipality of Svrljig, and has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014.

Early life and career

Miletić was born in the village of Plužina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He lives in nearby Svrljig, is a field veterinarian, and was a union activist before entering political life.

Political career

Municipal politics

Miletić became the deputy mayor of Svrljig following the 2004 local elections. He became mayor following the 2008 elections. Removed from the position by the municipal assembly in December 2009, he returned to power via a local alliance with the Serbian Radical Party four months later.
Although the United Peasant Party had existed as a de facto party since 2000, it was not registered until 2010. Miletić was recognized as its first official leader.
Miletić was elected to another term as mayor of Svrljig by the municipal assembly following the 2012 local elections. He resigned from the position on his election to the National Assembly in 2014.

Member of the National Assembly

Miletić received the ninety-seventh position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates. He received the same position on the Progressive-led list in the 2016 election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.
In the 2016–20 parliament, Miletić was a member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the committee on the rights of the child; the chair of a subcommittee for monitoring agriculture in the most under-developed areas of Serbia; a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Slovenia; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. He served with the Movement of Socialists–People's Peasant Party–United Peasant Party parliamentary group, which supported the Progressive-led administration.
He received the eighty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. Despite some disagreements between the United Peasant Party and the Progressives at the local level, the parties also agreed to a united list for Svrljig in the 2020 Serbian local elections; Miletić received the lead position on the list and was re-elected to another term in the municipal assembly.