Mileta Poskurica

Mileta Poskurica (Serbian Cyrillic: Милета Поскурица; born 11 July 1954) is an academic, medical doctor, and politician in Serbia.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.

Poskurica was first included on the Radical Party's electoral list at the republic level in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, in the 194th position.

The Radical Party experienced a serious split after the 2008 election, with several members joining the more moderate Forward Serbia parliamentary group under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić.

In 2015, he brought forward an amendment to Serbia's Law on Protection of the Population from Infectious Diseases that granted doctors the discretion to provide vaccinations for children.

He said that the amendment was meant to send a message that parents should vaccinate their children and not be subject to misinformation from the anti-vaccination lobby.

[21] During his fifth term in parliament, Poskurica served on the health and family committee and the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society, and was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Croatia, Cuba, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and Slovenia.