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What Is Aleksandar Vučić’s Net Worth?

Aleksandar Vučić is a Serbian politician who has a internet price of $400 thousand. Aleksandar Vučić has served because the President of Serbia since 2017. He co-founded the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in 2008 and was the president of the SNS from 2012 to 2023. Vučić has additionally served because the First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (2012–2014) and the Prime Minister of Serbia (2014–2017). His political profession started within the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) in 1993, and he turned SRS’ secretary-general two years later. From 1998 to 2000, Aleksandar was minister of knowledge within the administration of Mirko Marjanović. As president, Vučić has launched Open Balkan, an financial zone consisting of Albania, Serbia, and North Macedonia meant to offer higher alternatives for commerce, and he signed a 2020 settlement to encourage financial relations with Kosovo. Critics of Aleksandar have described his rule as autocratic or authoritarian attributable to a decline in civil liberties and curtailed freedom of press. Those who approve of his administration cite pragmatic insurance policies and financial development.

Early Life

Aleksandar Vučić was born on March 5, 1970, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is the son of Angelina Milovanov and Anđelko Vučić, and he has a youthful brother named Andrej. Aleksandar’s paternal ancestors got here from Bosnia, they usually settled close to Belgrade after Croatian fascists (Ustaše) expelled them throughout World War II. Vučić has stated that the Ustaše killed his paternal grandfather and several other different relations. Aleksandar’s mom got here from Vojvodina in Serbia. Both of his mother and father earned levels in economics, and Anđelko was an economist, whereas Angelina was a journalist. Vučić grew up in New Belgrade’s Blokovi neighborhood, and he attended the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, graduating in 1994. Aleksandar later moved to England, the place he realized English and labored in London as a service provider for over a yr. After he returned to Yugoslavia, Vučić started working as a journalist and interviewed Bosnian Serb politician Radovan Karadžić, who was Republika Srpska’s president in the course of the Bosnian War. The houses of a few of Aleksandar’s relations have been destroyed in that battle.

Career

In 1993, Vučić joined the far proper Serbian Radical Party (SRS), and within the 1993 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly. In 1995, he turned the get together’s secretary-general. In March 1998, Aleksandar turned the Minister of Information within the Mirko Marjanović administration, and students have described him as essential in shaping Serbia’s turn-of-the century media insurance policies. As Minister of Information, he launched fines for journalists who have been essential of the federal government, and he banned overseas tv networks. In 2008, Vučić co-founded the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) with Tomislav Nikolić, and from July 2012 to August 2013, he served because the get together’s first deputy prime minister and the minister of defence. In the 2014 parliamentary election, the SNS received 158 out of 250 seats. The SNS and the Socialist Party of Serbia fashioned a ruling coalition, and Aleksandar was elected Prime Minister of Serbia. He was re-elected within the 2016 parliamentary election, and in February 2017, he introduced that he was operating for president. Tomislav Nikolić, the incumbent president, backed Vučić, who ended up successful the election with 56.01% of the vote. Aleksandar’s win resulted in protests across the nation, with protesters accusing him of main Serbia towards authoritarianism.

Vučić was sworn in on May 31, 2017, and extra protests occurred in late 2018 and early 2019. That yr, a Freedom House report downgraded Serbia’s Free standing to Partly Free because of the authorities’s makes an attempt to undermine unbiased journalism with smear campaigns and authorized harassment, deteriorating election conduct, and Aleksandar accumulating govt powers conflicting together with his constitutional position. Vučić was re-elected within the 2022 basic election with 58% of the favored vote. In March 2023, he fashioned the People’s Movement for the State.

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Personal Life

Aleksandar married journalist Ksenija Janković on July 27, 1997, they usually welcomed two kids earlier than divorcing in 2011. Janković handed away in 2022. In 2023, Vučić wed diplomat Tamara Đukanović, who labored on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. Đukanović gave beginning to their son Vukan on June 9, 2017. Aleksandar is fluent in Serbian, English, Russian, and German. He has appeared on common tv reveals such because the humanitarian dance contest collection “Plesom do snova” (2009) and the late-night speak present “Veče sa Ivanom Ivanovićem” (2010). In 2006, he received the Serbian model of “The Pyramid,” a chat present on which company debate about completely different subjects and the viewers at dwelling votes for the successful speaker. In November 2019, Vučić was hospitalized at a Belgrade navy hospital for obvious “cardiovascular issues,” and he was launched inside three days. His media advisor and others have claimed that his well being issues have been brought on partly by stress from journalists, however Aleksandar denied this throughout a press convention, stating that he had persistent well being points. In July 2020, Vučić started attending the College of Sports and Health in Belgrade as a result of he was concerned about changing into a basketball coach for juniors after his political profession ends.

Honors

Vučić has acquired an Order of the Grand Cross of Mark the Apostle from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria (2017), an Order of the Republika Srpska (2018), an Order of Makarios III from Cyprus (2018), an Order of Friendship from Kazakhstan (2018), an Order of Alexander Nevsky from Russia (2019), an Order of the White Lion from the Czech Republic (2021), an Order of Saint-Charles from Monaco (2022), an Order of the Slovak Evangelical Church (2023), a Hungarian Order of Merit (2024), and an Order of St. Sava (2019), Order of the Venerable Prohor Pčinjski (2021), and Order of the Eparchy of Buda (2023) from the Serbian Orthodox Church, He has acquired honorary doctorates from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (2017) and Azerbaijan University of Languages (2018), and he’s an honorary citizen of a number of cities in Serbia and Bosnia. Aleksandar has additionally been honored with the Gold Medal of Merit of the City of Athens, Friends of Zion Award, and the Great Cross of vožd Đorđe Stratimirović. In 2021, he was introduced with the important thing of town of Banja Luka in Bosnia, and in 2022, he acquired the Hippocratic Medal from the Society of Physicians of Vojvodina for his contributions to the development of healthcare. In 2024, the Security Intelligence Agency awarded Vučić a Gold Medal for Merit, First Class.