Presidential candidate Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski: Mirdita, good night

Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski was born in 1990 in Belgrade. In her biography, she points out that she grew up in Kaluđerica, and after the First Belgrade High School, she graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.

She says of herself that she showed an affinity "not only for politics but also for national action" since she was a child. "I often tell an anecdote in my life that I held my first meeting when I was four years old. During the games, I showed my friends from the street how to hold up three fingers and carry the Serbian flag."

For the first time, he became politically involved in the presidency of the "Vowees" movement, which was founded in 2012. Zavetniki was founded by "a group of twenty people, who gathered at the barricades of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, organized numerous rallies and protests, participated in humanitarian work." Over time, the Movement became more and more popular, and the protest against NATO that they organized in several cities in Serbia will be remembered.

In their program of "nationally responsible politics", they see the "absence of the Serbian paradigm" as the basic problem of Serbian society, which they say is the foundation of the state and society that transcends all ideologies, party divisions and different views on political issues.

Since 2014, Milica Đurđević has become a recognizable face of "Zavetnik". In the extraordinary parliamentary elections, she was the first on the list that, in a coalition with the "Patriotic Front" and the "Sabor of Serbian Unity", did not pass the 5 percent threshold for entering the Assembly. She also carried the "Zavetnik" list in the 2016 parliamentary elections, when they won 0,73 percent of the vote.

"Pledgers" also participated in the elections for the City Assembly in 2018. Their campaign will be remembered when they stuck posters on the premises of the House of Human Rights as a sign of opposition to Nataša Kandic's candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize. They did the same with the premises of Women in Black, the Center for Cultural Decontamination and Ne davimo Beograd.

For years, the leader of "Zavetnik" has been receiving significantly more media attention than the strength of her stronghold in the electorate. She is almost recognizable for her sharp duels on "Pink" and "Happy" televisions with representatives of the LGBT community, a colleague from the right spectrum With Miša Vacić, the late mufti Zukorlić: "Your ideology is autonomy for Raska, which you call Sandzak, and that is the only truth." I asked you if Acif Efendi is a hero for you, and you avoid answering me."

She believes that the fight against same-sex unions is not lost because for her "there are only despondent deviations", but the term "lost fight" does not exist for her. "We did not dispute anyone's rights, but we stood up for family values."

Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski with "Zavetniki" does not fail to protest during the "Mirdita, good day" festival, which presents Pristina's cultural and social scene to the Belgrade audience. She believes that it is not a festival, but a political provocation, and behind the police cordon she said that her party "will advocate for a similar festival to be held in Durres next year."

He says: "The Serbian ethnic group in Kosovo and Metohija is the most endangered in Europe, and the lowest percentage of population settlement in one territory is precisely the percentage of the return of the Serbian people to Kosovo and Metohija."

Part of the public does not distinguish "Zavetnik" from other extreme right-wing organizations, and they are often associated with anti-vaxxers. Miliza Zavetnica once answered that "no one serious" says that their views are extreme, because they are actually the views of the "majority of Serbia": "We are a sovereignist modern party, which inherits tried and tested values. We gather all those who put the common good first and who are not slaves to ideological stereotypes".

During the last week, the news appeared that the "Pledged" had given up on their presidential candidate. Milica Đurđević denied such allegations and said that "they are of the opinion that Zavetnica should participate in these elections independently". She will be a candidate in front of the "Serbian Party Zavetnici", which emphasizes in its program that it advocates strengthening relations with the Eurasian Economic Union, deepening relations with Russia and China.

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