Vladica Maričić

Maričić was born in Niš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a master's degree in law from the University of Niš and is pursuing a doctorate in law at the same institution.^[1][2]

Maričić has been the Progressive Party's commissioner for the Niš community of Delijski Vis.^[3] He began his political career at the municipal level, receiving the twenty-sixth position on the party's electoral list for the Niš city assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections.^[4] The list won seventeen mandates, and he was not initially elected.^[5] He was subsequently given the 184th position (out of 250) on the party's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.^[6] The list won 158 mandates, and he was again not returned.

He was awarded a mandate for the Niš city assembly in either late 2014 or early 2015, after the resignation of another party member from that body.^[7] He served until 2016. He was given the thirty-eighth position on the party's list in the 2016 local elections^[8] and was not re-elected when the list won twenty-eight seats.^[9]

Maričić was given the 147th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election^[10] and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a member of the subcommittee on the information society and digitalization; 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 Sao Tome and Principe; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Hungary, Israel, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.^[11]