| Tamara Milenković Kerković | |
| Birth Date: | 28 January 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Party: | Dveri |
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia |
| Termstart1: | 1 August 2022 |
| Termend1: | 6 February 2024 |
| Native Name: | Тамара Миленковић Керковић |
| Native Name Lang: | sr |
Tamara Milenković Kerković (Serbian: Тамара Миленковић Керковић; born 28 January 1965) is a Serbian lawyer, academic, and politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2022 to 2024 as a member of the right-wing Dveri party.
Milenković Kerković was born in Niš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Niš Faculty of Law (1990) and a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. She began working at the University of Niš Faculty of Economics in 1992 and became a full professor in the field of commercial law in 2014. She has published widely in her field.[1]
Milenković Kerković joined Dveri in 2016. Before this time, she was not a member of any political party. As of 2024, she is one of Dveri's vice-presidents and the leader of its city board in Niš.[2]
Dveri contested the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with Žika Gojković's branch of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). Milenković Kerković was given the fifth position on their combined list and was elected when the list won ten mandates.[3] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won the election, and Dveri served in opposition.
During her assembly term, Milenković Kerković was a member of the labour committee and the culture and information committee, a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process parliamentary assembly, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Sri Lanka, and a member of the friendship groups Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, and Qatar.[4]
In a March 2023 interview, Milenković Kerković argued that the decision of western governments to recognize the Republic of Kosovo as an independent country had set a dangerous precedent that could exacerbate national difficulties in Spain, Cyprus, and other European states. In the same interview, she recounted Dveri's activities in opposing school textbooks that included what she described as "LGBT ideology" and "gender ideology."[5]
Dveri contested the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the far-right Serbian Party Oathkeepers (SSZ). Milenković Kerković appeared in the eighth position on their list, which did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation.[6] Her term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024.
Milenković Kerković later called for all parties opposed to the Serbian Progressive Party's dominance of Serbian political life to unite on a single list for Niš in the 2024 Serbian local elections.[7] While this did not happen, several opposition parties came together to form the We Choose Niš alliance. Dveri was not formally part of the alliance, but Milenković Kerković nonetheless received the second position on its list.[8] Technically, her endorsement was from the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS).[9]
The official preliminary results show We Choose Niš winning ten seats. Overall, the Serbian Progressive Party's alliance and the Russian Party (RS) have been reported as holding a one-seat majority over the combined forces of the opposition.[10] The opposition has challenged these results and charged electoral fraud.[11]