Introduction
Aleksandar Vulin (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Вулин, born in 1972) is a Serbian politician, who was Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija in the Government of Serbia (from July 2012 to September 2013) and Minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia in charge of Kosovo and Metohija (from September 2013 to April 2014). He is currently Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy.
Biography
He was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, as a son of the Bosnian Serb colonists. He said for himself that ever since his childhood "he has always been a communist". He began his political career in high school days in Novi Sad by supporting the Anti-bureaucratic revolution led by Slobodan Milošević between 1986 and 1989.
During the collapse of the communist Yugoslavia in 1990, Vulin joined the League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia, the so-called "army party" led by general Stevan Mirković. Vulin became a general secretary. In 1994, he was one of the founders of the Yugoslav Left, a party led by Mirjana Marković, the wife of Slobodan Milošević. In the new party, Vulin became a leader of the Revolutionary Youth, the party's youth organisation. He left the Yugoslav Left when it joined together with the Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia to the coalition with the Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Radical Party in 1998.
Later he founded the Democratic Left, and then the Movement of Socialists.