Igor Simić

Igor Simić (Serbian Cyrillic: Игор Симић, Albanian: Igor Simiq; born 25 May 1986) is a Kosovar politician who was a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo.[1] He is a vice president and the spokesperson of the Serb List, a Serb minority party in Kosovo.[lower-alpha 1][2]

Former MP
Igor Simić
Игор Симић
In office
2017–2022
Personal details
Born (1986-05-25) 25 May 1986
Titova Mitrovica, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Nationality
Political partySerb List (2016–present)
Other political
affiliations		Serbian Progressive Party (2016–present)
Alma materUniversity of Priština

Early life and career

He was born to a Serb family in 1986 in Titova Mitrovica (Kosovska Mitrovica / Mitrovica) which at the time was a part of the SFR Yugoslavia.

He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Priština with the temporary seat in North Mitrovica and later he did doctoral studies at the same university and received his PhD and defended his doctoral dissertation in on the topic of the Community of Serb Municipalities. Currently he is an assistant at the Faculty of Economics, University of Priština and a member of the council at the Faculty of Law of the same university. [2]

He is an executive director of the NGO "Sinergija". In 2015, Simic became the director of the supervisory board of the state-owned enterprise "Mreža Most" and then again in 2019.[2]

Besides his native Serbian, he speaks English.[1]

Political career

Before joining the Serb List, and the Serbian Progressive Party in 2016, he was the spokesperson of the Civic Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (SDP) which was led by Oliver Ivanović, who at that time was in prison and was assassinated in 2018.[2][3]

After the 2017 Kosovan parliamentary elections, Simić became a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo and after the 2019 elections he was elected again.[4] He serves in the Parliamentary Committee for Rights and Interests of Communities and Returns as well as the Committee for Local Governance, Public Administration, Regional Development and Media.[1]

In 2018, Igor Simić was elected vice president of the Serb List.[5]

In November 2019, Simić said that Serbia continues to fund parallel structures and that the Serbian state provides salaries to 40 thousand Serbian citizens in Kosovo. He also denounced claims that North Kosovo is more dangerous than other parts of Kosovo and that young people are not leaving Kosovo because of the Serb List, but because of the Kosovar political class.[6]

On 5 November 2022, all the ten deputies of the Serb List, including Simić, resigned from the Assembly of Kosovo.

Notes and references
  1. The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as a sovereign state by 101 UN member states (with another 13 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 92 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own territory.
  1. "Igor Simić". Kuvendi i Kosoves. Retrieved 9 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Konobar koji je kucao tikete i izdao Olivera sad je PONOS SNS | Društvo i ekonomija | Direktno". direktno.rs. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  3. "Ubijen Oliver Ivanović". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 2020-01-05. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  4. "Simić poslanik u Skupštini Kosova, Stojanovića nema na listi". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  5. "Izabrani potpredsednici Srpske liste". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  6. "Nënkryetari i Listës Serbe: Serbia jep 40 mijë rroga në Kosovë". Telegrafi. 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
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