National Security Council at today's session gave his consent for the appointment of Vladimir Orlić as a director Security and information agencies in accordance with the Law on the Basics of Organizing the Security Services of the Republic of Serbia, it was announced after the Council session, writes Insider.
The session was chaired by the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and the current security situation in the region was discussed, with special reference to the situation in the Republic of Serbia.
Who is Vladimir Orlić?
Vladimir Orlić has been a member of the Serbian Progressive Party since 2008, and in it he was mainly in charge of tasks related to information, media and organization. He was the president of the Information Council of the Municipal Committee of the SNS in Čukarica and the City Committee of the SNS Belgrade several times, and then vice president of the SNS. writes Danas.
He was elected four times as a member of parliament from the list led by SNS. Parallel to his rise on the party ladder, he also recorded his rise on the parliamentary level, from an ordinary member of parliament, through the deputy head of the SNS parliamentary group, the vice-president of the assembly, to the president of the parliament and the third person in office in Serbia.
In 2018, BIRN published documentation showing that the Ministry of Education's inspection deemed the hiring of Orlić and Aleksandar Martinović as lecturers at the Higher Medical School in Ćuprija illegal. In May 2020, in a guest appearance on TV N1, Orlić denied that he was employed at that school, but the next day BIRN published documentation showing that he was hired as a lecturer at master's studies for the 2019/20 school year.
At the constitutive session of the Assembly of Serbia, held at the beginning of August 2022, he was elected as the Speaker of the Parliament. He held this position until the parliamentary elections were announced in November 2023.