Pavle Grbović

Pavle Grbović (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Грбовић; born 19 November 1993) is a Serbian politician who is currently a member of the City Assembly of Belgrade as well as the president of the Movement of Free Citizens, a social-liberal and social democratic political movement since 27 September 2020.

Pavle Grbović
Павле Грбовић
Member of the City Assembly of Belgrade
Assumed office
9 May 2018
Personal details
Born (1993-11-19) 19 November 1993
Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
Political partyMovement of Free Citizens
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade

Biography

Early life and education

He was born in 1993 in Belgrade which at the time was a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He finished middle and high school in Belgrade.[1]

In 2012, he enrolled at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He graduated in 2016 as one of the best students in the generation. After that, he received a master's degree at the same faculty. He received multiple awards for excellent success in all years of study and awards in several competitions in writing thematic papers in the legal profession.[2]

Political career

He made a decision to join the Movement of Free Citizens in August 2017 after the 2017 presidential elections and the forming of the movement.[3] Within the movement, he performed the functions of media team coordinator, secretary and member of the Executive Board and secretary of the Presidency. Currently, he is a member of the presidency of the movement.

He was on the electoral list of the Movement of Free Citizens, People's Party and Dragan Đilas for the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election. The coalition finished second and Grbović was elected a member of the City Assembly.[4][2] He said that he does not expect to be privileged because he is young, but that he is also not afraid to oppose opinions and arguments with the elderly because of his age.[3]

He said that the biggest problem of Serbia today is the lack of empathy, solidarity and willingness to face real problems and social decadence and a tendency towards populism, nationalism and chauvinism.[3]

After a bad result at the 2020 Serbian parliamentary elections in which the Movement of Free Citizens only won 1.58% of the popular vote, new presidential elections were announced within the movement, and Grbović was the only candidate for president of the movement and on 27 September 2020, he became the new president.[5][6]

On 10 November 2020,Grbović announced on Facebook that he had been tested positive for COVID-19.[7]

References
  1. "Pavle Grbović". Istinomer. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  2. "Pavle Grbović | Predsedništvo". Pokret slobodnih građana (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  3. Besermenji, Igor. "Novo Lice Politike – Pavle Grbović, Pokret slobodnih građana". Besermenji Igor. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  4. "Konačni rezultati: SNS-u 44,99 odsto, lista oko Đilasa 18,93". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  5. "Pavle Grbović će biti jedini kandidat za predsednika PSG". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  6. FoNet, Piše (2020-09-27). "Pavle Grbović novi predsednik PSG-a". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  7. "Predsednik PSG Pavle Grbović ima koronavirus". N1 Srbija (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Sergej Trifunović		 President of the Movement of Free Citizens
2020–present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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