Milan Stamatović
| Milan Stamatović Милан Стаматовић |
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| President of the municipality of Čajetina | |
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Assumed office 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Radovan Jojić |
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24 May 1960 Zlatibor, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
Milan Stamatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Стаматовић, pronounced [mǐlan stǎmatoʋit͜ɕ], born May 24, 1960) is a Serbian politician who became president of the municipality of Čajetina in 2004. He is an independent candidate in the 2017 Serbian presidential election.
From 1996 to 2000, Stamatović was a member of the Democratic Movement of Serbia in opposition to Slobodan Milošević. In 2000, he joined the Democratic Party of Serbia, which he represented until 2014. In 2014, Stamatović, Nenad Popović, and others left DSS to form the Serbian People's Party. In Čajetina's municipal election in April 2016, Stamatović campaigned with the support of a DSS-PUPS-SNP coalition and was elected to his fourth mandate with 56.33% of the vote, resulting in a rare loss of the state-ruling SNS.
In the summer of 2007, the local police chief in Čajetina resigned amidst a crisis in which the police could not regulate illegal construction in the municipality. When Stamatović planned to have dozens of illegal buildings knocked down, he received several threats. In an investigative report, Stamtović told Danas:
Stamatović's predecessor for municipal president, Radovan Jojić from the opposing Democratic Party, gave a similar testament to Danas that during his mandate (2000-2004), people were given permission to build apartments of a certain capacity, but that those capacities were overwhelmingly ignored. In May 2009, Večernje novosti published another investigative article about Zlatibor featuring Stamatović, who told Novosti that "no matter how much the government denies the existence of the [illegal] construction mafia, I'm confirming that it exists." The same report asserted that Serbian criminal Sreten Jocić bought several properties in Zlatibor, and that Bosko Radonjich was the owner of a local bar called "Boss".
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