Goran Rakić


Goran Rakić is a Kosovo Serb politician who is currently serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and as the Minister of Administration and Local Government. He is a former mayor of North Mitrovica and the current president of the Serb List.

Early life

Goran Rakić was born in 1971 in Titova Mitrovica. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Priština. He was employed as the director of JKP "Standard" Kosovska Mitrovica, and before that in the Fire Station Kosovska Mitrovica.

Political career

He has been performing the function of the mayor of the municipality of North Mitrovica after swearing an oath to the Republic of Kosovo in 2014. He won his second four-year term in 2017 Kosovan local elections. Since 2017, Rakic has been the president of the Serb List, which has power in all ten Serb-majority municipalities, as well as all ten guaranteed seats in the Assembly of Kosovo for the Serb community. He is also the president of the municipality board of the Serbian Progressive Party in North Mitrovica.
In January 2019, he said that Serbs will never allow the reunification of North and South Mitrovica as that would be a cover for ethnic cleansing against the Kosovo Serbs.
On 3 June 2020, he took the office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and the Minister of Administration and Local Government in the Hoti cabinet.
In July 2020, Serb List caused a controversy in Kosovo by announcing that they will support Serbia's COVID-19 curfew measures and have vowed to locally implement them in Kosovo. They also vowed to support Aleksandar Vučić in the “fight” for Kosovo during the dialogue. Shortly after, a parliamentary resolution initiated by Vjosa Osmani, the Speaker of the Parliament, condemning a statement by the Serb List failed to pass.
On 27 July 2020, Serbian Anti-Corruption Agency started an investigation against Rakić and other high ranking Serb officials in Kosovo due to the suspicion that they violated the law because they did not report their property and income to the Anti-Corruption Agency.

Personal life

He is married and has two children.