Miloš Jovanović was born in 1976 in Belgrade and holds a doctorate in legal sciences. He spent part of his career as a lecturer at the Sorbonne, and since 2014 he has been working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. He served as an advisor to the Minister for Kosovo and Metohija in the Government of Vojislav Koštunica, and he was the coordinator of the legal team of the Government of Serbia until 2012. He was elected president of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) at the thirteenth assembly of the DSS in May 2017.
For the first time, he is running for the presidential elections in front of the NADA coalition (DSS, Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia POKS and 23 citizens' associations), whose main priority is to finally free Serbia from the party state. "It must never happen again that the party booklet is the most important document in the country," Jovanović believes. He wants to show that it is possible to be "both a patriot and a democrat, that the national interest, identity and culture can and must be defended, while at the same time the rule of law must be respected."
He believes that "dirty laundry" should not be taken out of the house, so he did not want to discuss party employment, pressure on voters, media image in Serbia in front of "foreigners" from the European Parliament. Together with other parties from the right-wing spectrum, he participated in a dialogue with representatives of the authorities on election conditions "without foreigners". He believes that under no circumstances should Serbia "make a mistake and renounce Kosovo". "We would have brought misery on ourselves." That is the beginning of the problem, the creation of a great Albania and the opening of the issue of North Macedonia," said Jovanović.
The Serbia that Jovanović wants "is neither Vučić's nor Đilas's," and his Serbia "is neither Quo vadis, Aida". "It is neither the one in which Washington and Brussels are constantly calling to fix something, nor the one in which someone is ashamed of being a Serb," Jovanović said at the convention of the NADA coalition. As he explained, he does not share the values of either the government or the actions of the "Brussels opposition".
In the previous local elections in Belgrade, he was a candidate for mayor. The list he led won 1,12 percent of the vote. With the "Broom 2020" movement, which was formed "to ask citizens for support for radical changes and cleaning up all negative phenomena in society", he participated in the previous parliamentary elections and won slightly more than 70 votes.
Jovanović promises to show that "one can be both a patriot and a democrat, that one can and must defend the national interest, identity and culture, while at the same time respecting the rule of law." Ideologically, Jovanović remains loyal to the founder of the party Vojislav Kostunica who was the last President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000-2003) and Prime Minister of Serbia (2004-2008). Since then, DSS has been in free fall.
"The culture of dialogue and democratic procedures must be nurtured." In addition to insisting on these two important principles - the nation and democracy - we also have a series of concrete solutions for improving the lives of all of us, from agriculture and the economy to the necessary decentralization, because it is not natural that everything flows into Belgrade and that the whole of Serbia is reduced to its capital." , says the presidential candidate of NADA.
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