Marko Đurišić (; born 2 November 1968) is Đurišića Serbian politician. He has served several terms in the National Assembly of Serbia, originally as a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) and later with the breakaway Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska stranka, SDS). In 2020, he left the SDS and was a leading figure in the short-lived party Serbia 21 (Srbija 21).
Early life and career
Đurišić was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is an information technology engineer in private life.
Politician
Democratic Party
Member of the Belgrade city assembly (1997–2004) The DS contested the 1996 Serbian local elections as part of the Together (Zajedno) coalition with the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) and the Civic Alliance of Serbia (Građanski savez Srbije, GSS). All three parties were opposed to Slobodan Milošević's administration. Zajedno won a significant victory in the Belgrade city elections, and Đurišić was one of the DS candidates elected under its banner. Milošević's government initially refused to recognize the opposition's victory but accepted the outcome in early 1997 following extended street protests. The city assembly convened in February 1997, and DS leader Zoran Đinđić became Belgrade's mayor. The coalition's triumph was short-lived; the SPO left Zajedno later in the year, Đinđić was removed as mayor, and the DS moved into opposition. Đurišić later took part in public protests against Milošević's government in July 1999, following the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
In 2000, the DS became one of the leading parties in the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS), a broad and ideologically diverse coalition of parties opposed to the Milošević regime. DOS candidate Vojislav Koštunica defeated Milošević in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election, a watershed moment in Serbian and Yugoslavian politics. The DOS also won a landslide victory in the Belgrade city assembly in the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections. Đurišić was re-elected to the assembly for New Belgrade's third division and served as a government supporter for the next four years. He was also elected to the New Belgrade municipal assembly, where the DOS won sixty-five out of sixty-seven seats.
Serbia adopted a system of proportional representation for local elections in 2002. Đurišić appeared on the DS's electoral lists for the Belgrade city assembly and the New Belgrade municipal assembly in the 2004 local elections but was not given a mandate for a new term in either body.
Parliamentarian (2001–12) The Serbian government fell after Milošević's defeat in the 2000 Yugoslavian election, and a new Serbian parliamentary election was called for December 2000. Đurišić received the ninety-fourth position on the DOS's list and was awarded a mandate when the alliance won a landslide victory with 176 seats out of 250. (From 2000 to 2011, assembly mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Đurišić was not automatically elected by virtue of his list position, though he received a mandate all the same.) He took his seat when the assembly convened in January 2001; shortly thereafter, he accompanied DS deputy chair Boris Tadić on an official visit to Germany. During his first term, he served on the committee for international relations, the committee for transport and communications, and the finance committee.
The DS contested the 2003 Serbian election at the head of its own alliance and won thirty-seven mandates. Đurišić received the 147th position on the party's list. He was not included in the DS's initial delegation but received a mandate on 17 February 2004 as the replacement for another party member who had resigned. The DS served in opposition in this sitting of parliament. In August 2005, Đurišić attended an event in Poland commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Solidarity.