Branimir Jovanović

Branimir Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранимир Јовановић; born 1979) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS).

Jovanović is a political scientist. He lives in Kraljevo.^[1]

The SDPS participated in the 2012 Serbian local elections in Kraljevo as part of the Democratic Party's Choice for a Better Life coalition electoral list. Jovanović received the seventh position on the list^[2] and was elected to the Kraljevo city assembly when the alliance won thirteen mandates.^[3] He did not seek re-election at the local level in 2016.

The SDPS contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list. Jovanović received the eightieth position and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 seats.^[4] During the 2016–20 parliament, he was a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PSA); and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Belarus, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, and the United States of America.^[5]

He was given the ninety-ninth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 election^[6] and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now the leader of the SDLP parliamentary group in the assembly and is a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (where Serbia has observer status); the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Uzbekistan; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Mauritius, Norway, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkey, the United States of America, and Uruguay.^[7]