Mujo Muković

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Mujo Muković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мујо Муковић; born 15 August 1963) is a Serbian Bosniak politician from Tutin in the Sandžak region. He studied civil engineering at the University of Belgrade and worked in construction for the Tutin municipality.

In the 1990s, Muković joined the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (SDA). He left in 1996 to join the Sandžak Coalition, which later became the Sandžak Democratic Party (SDP). He rose to deputy leader of the SDP. In 2000, the SDP joined the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) to defeat Slobodan Milošević. Muković led the SDP’s list for the DOS in the 2000 election and won a seat in the National Assembly in January 2001.

In parliament he served on the committee on inter-ethnic relations and the committee on constitutional affairs. He helped push for Bosniaks to be officially recognized as a nationality in Serbia’s minority laws and spoke on fair representation and on nursing jobs for Sandžak police officers fired under Milošević.

In 2002 he joined commissions drafting the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; he supported the draft but later left a republic-level commission when his party’s demands were not met. He also supported Miroljub Labus in the 2002 presidential election. The SDP ran in 2003 with the Zajedno za toleranciju alliance but did not win enough votes, and Muković left parliament in 2004 after that election.

In 2007 he returned to parliament on the Democratic Party (DS) list. The DS formed a government with DSS and G17 Plus, and Muković supported it. He served on the defense and security committee and on committees dealing with interethnic relations and urbanism. He later pushed to remove a border checkpoint with Montenegro.

After the DS–DSS coalition collapsed in 2008, Muković ran again with the DS in 2008 and was later appointed as a secretary of state in the Ministry of Infrastructure. In 2011 he left the SDP, criticizing the party’s decline in the Sandžak, and he founded the Bosniak People’s Party (BNS) in 2012, becoming its president.

In 2012 the BNS joined the SNS-led Let’s Get Serbia Moving alliance. Muković was elected to the National Assembly for a third term and served on the spatial planning, transport, infrastructure and telecommunications committee, led the parliamentary friendship group with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and joined several other friendship groups. He was re-elected in 2014 on the SNS list and continued his work in various committees and groups. He did not run for the national parliament in 2016.

In 2016 he ran in Tutin’s local elections as the second on the BNS list, but the list did not win a seat.