Borislav Pelević

Borislav Pelević (Serbian: Борислав Пелевић) (born November 22, 1956) is a Serbian politician. He had been the president of the nationalist Party of Serbian Unity,[1] before it merged into the Serbian Radical Party in December 2007. His old party had a marginal importance in Serbian politics. Pelević was one of the Arkan's Tigers[2] during the war in Krajina at the Erdut training camp. He was also a presidential candidate in the Serbian presidential election, 2004.

He was elected as Serbian Radical Party representative in the Serbian parliament twice, in 2007 and 2008. After Tomislav Nikolić, Deputy Leader of the party and the parliamentary leader due to the absence of Vojislav Šešelj, resigned from SRS and formed new parliamentary group called "Napred Srbijo!", Pelević left SRS and joined Nikolić's group.

Pelević had been the president of the kickboxing federation of Serbia and Montenegro.

References

  1. ^ "Nationalists line up for Serb presidency". BBC Online. 18 November 2002. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5sRnFFkX8. Retrieved 2 September 2010. 
  2. ^ Erlanger, Steven (23 January 2000). "In a Land Of Glitz And Crimes, He Stood Out". The New York Times. p. 4. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/mainframe.php. Retrieved 2 September 2010.