Slobodan Veličković

Veličković is retired. Formerly based in Leskovac, he now lives in Belgrade.^[1][2]

Veličković has been a vice-president of the PUPS and has served for many years as president of its party organization in Leskovac.^[3][4][5][6]

The PUPS contested the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia. Veličković received the twenty-sixth position on the Socialist-led electoral list and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.^[7] Following the election, the PUPS joined a coalition government led by the Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialists, and Veličković served with the ministry's parliamentary majority. He received the forty-ninth position on the Socialist list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election; the list once again won forty-four mandates, and he was not initially returned. He was, however, awarded a mandate on 25 January 2016 as a replacement for Milan Korać, and served until the dissolution of the assembly for new elections later in the year.^[8] The PUPS continued to support the ministry during this period.^[9]

In early 2016, the PUPS ended its electoral alliance with the Socialist Party and formed a new alliance with the Progressive Party, contesting the 2016 parliamentary election on the latter's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list. Veličković received the 244th list position (out of 250). This was too low a position for direct election to be a realistic prospect, and indeed he was not re-elected even as the Progressive list won 131 out of 250 seats. He was nonetheless awarded a mandate on 3 March 2020 as a replacement for Vera Paunović and thereby re-entered the assembly in time to serve on its last officially scheduled day of business prior to the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.^[10] (Parliament was subsequently recalled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and served for a further five days.)

Veličković was not a candidate in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.