Milan Krkobabić (; born 12 October 1952) is a Serbian politician serving as minister of rural welfare since 2020. A member of the Krkobabić political family, he is the current leader of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS). Additionally, he served as minister without portfolio from 2016 to 2020. Krkobabić has been a member of the National Assembly since 2022, a role which he previously held from 2012 to 2016 and briefly in 2020. He also served as deputy mayor of Belgrade from 2008 to 2012, and as a member of the City Assembly of Belgrade in 2008, and again from 2012 to 2013, and again briefly in 2014. Early life and career Krkobabić was born in Kačarevo, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He later moved with his family to Belgrade, where he completed high school and graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics. He has thirty years of experience in the financial sector. His father, Jovan Krkobabić, was the founder and first leader of the PUPS. Political career Krkobabić joined the PUPS on its formation in 2005. The party contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election on a combined electoral list with the Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska partija, SDP), and Krkobabić was included in the 105th position. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. City of Belgrade The PUPS formed an alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS) prior to the 2008 parliamentary election. Krkobabić was not a candidate at the republic level but instead received the second position on the SPS-led list in the concurrent 2008 Belgrade City Assembly election. The list won six seats, and he was granted a mandate in the city assembly. Neither the republic nor the Belgrade city elections produced a clear winner, and representatives of the Socialist Party, the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS), and the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS) discussed forming coalition governments at both levels. Krkobabić said that this arrangement would be acceptable to the PUPS, as it would ensure the passage of parts of the party's program. Discussions among these parties subsequently broke down, and the Socialists instead formed coalition governments at both levels with the For a European Serbia alliance led by the