Aleksandar Antić


Aleksandar Antić is a Serbian politician. He has served as the Minister of Energy and Mining from 27 April 2014. He is a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia. He previously served as the Minister of Transportation from 2013 to 2014.

Career

He was a councilor in the Municipal Assembly of Zvezdara for two terms and was elected Socialist Party of Serbia member of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade three times. From 2004 to 2008, he was the President of the SPS parliamentary group in the Assembly of the City of Belgrade.
He served as the president of the Assembly of the City of Belgrade from 2008 to 2012. In 2013, he became a Minister of Transportation in the Government of Ivica Dačić, and served until the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, after which he became a Minister of Mining and Energy in the Government of Aleksandar Vučić. While talking to the press on 4 December 2014 he was hit by an approximately three-kilogram chunk of ice that fell from a powerline. He was unhurt as he wore a hard hat.