Aleksandar Olenik

Aleksandar Olenik (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Оленик, born 1973) is a Serbian politician and lawyer. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2022. He is a former president of the Civic Democratic Forum. He also works in the legal team of the Gay Straight Alliance, an organization that fights for the LGBT rights in Serbia.

Aleksandar Olenik
Александар Оленик
Olenik in 2022
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
1 August 2022
President of the Civic Democratic Forum
In office
2 March 2019 – 3 October 2020
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byZoran Vuletić
Personal details
Born1973 (age 49–50)
Kikinda, SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party
  • PSG (2017–2019)
  • GDF (2019–2020)
  • ZZV (2022–present)
OccupationPolitician, lawyer

Biography

He was born in 1973 in Kikinda.[1]

He has worked as a lawyer in several domestic and international organizations, such as the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Danish Refugee Council, Mercy Corps and the Humanitarian Law Center, where he has represented national and religious minorities, Internally displaced persons, refugees and victims of war crimes. He is currently working on similar cases at the Belgrade Center for Minority Rights and the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest. During 2010, he worked at the United Nations Development Programme in Belgrade as a national consultant in charge of analyzing the application of the criminal code in the part that deals with discrimination.[2]

He was a member of the Movement of Free Citizens, in which he had the function of a member of the executive board and the head of the legal team.

After the former president of the movement Saša Janković retired from politics, he ran for president.[3] Soon after Sergej Trifunović was elected to that position.[4]

Olenik and some other members left the Movement of Free Citizens in early 2019, and claimed that they did not leave the movement because of Trifunović, but because of the change in politics.[5]

He was one of the initiators of the founding of the new political organization Civic Democratic Forum, whose president he became at the founding assembly in March 2019.[6]

Views

Olenik is a Vojvodina autonomist[7] and is known for his anti-clerical views and his opposition to the Serbian Orthodox Church[8][9] and advocates for the abolition of religious education in schools in Serbia, as well as for imposing a "luxury tax" for the Church.[10]

References
  1. "Aleksandar Olenik". Istinomer (in Serbian). Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  2. "Gej strejt alijansa | GSA | Ljudi". gsa.org.rs. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  3. "Sergej Trifunović i Aleksandar Olenik kandidati za predsednika PSG". N1 Srbija (in Serbian (Latin script)). Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  4. "Sergej Trifunović novi predsednik Pokreta slobodnih građana". N1 Srbija (in Serbian (Latin script)). Archived from the original on 7 November 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  5. "Olenik: "Nismo napustili PSG zbog Sergeja, nego zbog promene politike"". Nedeljnik. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  6. "Osnovan Građanski demokratski forum, za predsednika izabran Aleksandar Olenik". www.021.rs. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  7. Gruhonjic, Dinko (29 July 2022). "Olenik: Vojvođanski identitet je suprotstavljen srpskom svetu". Autonomija (in Serbian). Retrieved 17 May 2023.
  8. Alo.rs. "NEDOSTOJAN ADVOKAT - VREĐA SPC, VERNIKE, SANU, SRBIJU I MRTVOG LAZANSKOG Olenik luduje i naziva Srbe talibanima - Alo.rs". alo (in Serbian). Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  9. "Olenik: Srpska pravoslavna crkva ponaša se kao partija - CdM". www.cdm.me. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  10. "Olenik: Ukinuti veronauku, crkva da plaća porez na luksuz - Politika - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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