Enis Imamović

Enis Imamović (Serbian Cyrillic: Енис Имамовић; born June 25, 1984) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bosniak community. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (Stranka demokratske akcije Sandžaka; SDA).

Early life and private career

Imamović was born in the Sandžak community of Novi Pazar, at the time part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] He has a degree in biochemistry from the State University of Novi Pazar and is a professor of the subject.[2]

Political career

Imamović was a SDA spokesperson before his election to the assembly. In January 2009, he charged that a mob encouraged by rival political parties tried to assassinate SDA leader Sulejman Ugljanin during a confrontation at the headquarters of the Bosniak List for a European Sandžak, a political alliance headed by the SDA.[3] The confrontation was sparked by the SDA-led coalition's refusal to obey a court order (subsequently overturned) requiring them to leave their headquarters at the House of Culture in Novi Pazar.[4] The Sandžak Democratic Party, one of the rival groups identified by Imamović, has rejected the assertion that anyone sought to harm Ugljanin, let alone assassinate him.[5] The incident remains a source of division in Sandžak politics and has never been fully investigated. In 2015, Imamović accused local authorities of witness intimidation and other abuses of power in the matter.[6]

Imamović received the third position on the SDA's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[7] The list won two mandates, and Imamović was not immediately declared elected; Ugljanin resigned his seat shortly after the election, however, and Imamović was awarded the vacant mandate on July 25, 2012.[8] He was promoted to the second position on the SDA's list for the 2014 election and was declared re-elected when the party won three seats.[9]

In 2014, Imamović proposed a type of autonomy for the Sandžak similar to that of South Tyrol within Italy.[10]

He once again received the second position on the SDA's list for the 2016 election and was returned for a third term when the party won two seats.[11] The SDA currently sits in a parliamentary alliance with the Liberal Democratic Party and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, and Imamović serves as the deputy leader of the parliamentary grouping. He is also a member of the parliamentary committee on human and minority rights and gender; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of two other committees; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean; and a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary dimension of the Central European Initiative.[12]

References

  1. ↑ ENIS IMAMOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 3 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Imamović Enis," Regional Academy for Democracy, accessed 3 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Serbia: Sandzak party spokesman says rival group attempted to "kill" leader," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 20 January 2009 (Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1909 gmt 19 Jan 09).
  4. ↑ "Serbia: Court overturns decision on Sandzak bloc's use of controversial premises," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 13 March 2009 (Source: Radio-Televizija Jedinstvo, Novi Pazar, in Serbian 1745gmt 13 Mar 09).
  5. ↑ "Serbia's Bosniak leader holds rally to demand "justice for Sandzak"," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 19 January 2016 (Source: Slavka Bakracevic: "Ugljanin: Autonomy Cure for Bosniak Problems," Politika website, Belgrade, in Serbian 17 Jan 16.
  6. ↑ "Imamović: Zastrašivanje svedoka o incidentu iz 2009" Blic (source: Tanjug), 12 June 2015.
  7. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. маj 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Странка демократске акције Санџака - др Сулејман Угљанин Stranka demokratske akcije Sandzaka - dr. Sulejman Ugljanin), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 May 2017.
  8. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. маj 2012. године, ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 25. јула 2012. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 May 2017.
  9. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СДА Санџака - др Сулејман Угљанин SDA Sandzaka - dr. Sulejman Uglјanin), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "Serbian paper suspicious of calls for region's autonomy," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 26 September 2014 (Source: Zarko Rakic: "Tyrol on the Pester Plateau," Politika website, Belgrade, in Serbian 25 Sep 14; "Pundits say calls for autonomy to be taken seriously given Kosovo experience," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 29 September 2014 (Source: Mirjana Cekerevac: "Why Scotland and South Tyrol Are Inspiration for Autonomists," Politika website, in Serbian 28 Sep 14).
  11. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (SDA Sandžaka – Dr. Sulejman Ugljanin СДА Санџака – Др Сулејман Угљанин), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  12. ↑ ENIS IMAMOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 3 July 2017.
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