Pavle Markov ( sr-Cyrl, Павле Марков; born 25 March 1973) is a Serbian politician]. He served in the

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from 2012 to 2013, was the mayor of

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from 2013 to 2020, and is now a member of the City Assembly of Kikinda. Markov is a member of the

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Early life and career

Markov was born in

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, in what was then the

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in the

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. He was raised in Kikinda and later graduated from the

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. He has practiced law since 2000. He served as head of Kikinda's local administration on a non-partisan basis from 2004 to 2008.

Politician

Markov was given the seventy-ninth position on the Progressive Party's ''

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in the

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. The list won seventy-three mandates, and he was not initially elected. He also appeared in the first position on the SNS list in Kikinda in the concurrent

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and was elected when the list won twelve mandates. The local government was formed by the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS) after the election, and the SNS served in opposition. The Progressives formed a

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with the

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(''Socijalistička partija Srbije'', SPS) at the republic level after the 2012 election, and a number of its parliamentarians resigned to take ministerial positions. Markov was awarded a mandate on 30 June 2012 as the replacement for another party member. He served in parliament for the next year as a supporter of the administration. Shifting political affiliations in Kikinda brought the Progressives to power in September 2013, and Markov was chosen as the municipality's mayor. He resigned his seat in the national assembly on 1 October as he was unable to hold a

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. In early 2016, he oversaw Kikinda's transition from a municipality to a city. Markov led the Progressives to a majority victory in Kikinda in the 2016 local elections and was confirmed for another term as mayor afterwards. In 2018, he accepted on behalf of the city the

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's flag of honour from a representative of the

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(PACE). During this term. He once again led the SNS list for Kikinda in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-eight out of thirty-nine mandates.''Službeni List (Grada Kikinde)'', Volume 5 Number 7 (22 June 2020), pp. 211-212. He stood down as mayor following the election and continues to serve as a member of the city assembly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Markov, Pavle 1973 births Living people Politicians from Kikinda Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Mayors of places in Serbia Serbian Progressive Party politicians