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The list of Dragan "Palma" Markovic's official positions during his three-decade stampede through the ranks of Serbian politics is long.
The 60-year-old is currently a lawmaker in the National Assembly, chairman of the coalition party United Serbia (JS), and city council president of Jagodina, a quaint town 135 kilometers southeast of Belgrade.
He was also mayor of Jagodina for eight years until 2012, lifting up its bedraggled postindustrial profile with new trappings of tourism like an artificial waterfall, an aquapark, a zoo, a stadium, and a sprawling shopping center.
Markovic also served as a deputy minister of agriculture, forestry, and water management in Serbia's first government after the ouster of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2001.