Mirko Jović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирко Јовић; born 13 August 1959 in Zemun) is a Serbian politician who stood for president of Serbia in the 2004 Serbian presidential election for the People's Radical Party, Serbia and Diaspora, and European Blok. He lives in Belgrade.
Political career
Together with Vuk Drašković and Vojislav Šešelj, Jović founded the Serbian National Renewal (SNO) in 1989. However, the trio soon found themselves at political crossroads and their party disintegrated into three pieces by 1990. Jović kept the SNO, Šešelj formed the Serbian Chetnik Movement and then the Serbian Radical Party while Drašković formed the Serbian Renewal Movement.
On 19 May 1990, during a rally in Titov Vrbas, Jović and members of the SNO were ambushed and attacked by over 100 plainclothes and uniformed officers of the communist secret police, an incident documented by international press and contemporary records.
In 1996, the SNO was merged into the Serb Democratic Party.
He was a volunteer soldier in the Bosnian War, where he was the leader of the White Eagles and reportedly called for a Christian, Orthodox Serbia "without mosques and unbelievers" according to a controversial June 1990 interview published by the Croatian weekly Danas, a claim that Jović's supporters and party programs reject as a media fabrication from that period.
In the 2004 Serbian presidential election, he won 5,546 votes or 0.18% of the votes.