# Toma Fila

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Serbian lawyer and politician

Toma Fila Тома Фила Fila in 2015 Member of the National Assembly Incumbent Assumed office 3 August 2020 President Ivica Dačić Vladimir Orlić Member of the City Assembly of Belgrade In office 9 May 2018 – 7 June 2018 President Nikola Nikodijević Personal details Born (1941-07-29) 29 July 1941 (age 84) Bitolj, Bulgarian-occupied Yugoslavia (modern North Macedonia) Party SPS (2017–present) Alma mater University of Belgrade Occupation Lawyer, politician

**Toma Fila** ([Serbian Cyrillic](/source/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet): Тома Фила; born 29 July 1941) is a Serbian lawyer and politician serving as a member of the [National Assembly](/source/National_Assembly_(Serbia)) since 3 August 2020. He is also a member of the presidency of the [Socialist Party of Serbia](/source/Socialist_Party_of_Serbia) (SPS) and a member of the Diocesan Council of the [Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci](/source/Archbishopric_of_Belgrade_and_Karlovci).

## Early life and education

Fila was born on 29 July 1941 in [Bitola](/source/Bitola), territory of the [Kingdom of Yugoslavia](/source/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia), then occupied by [Bulgaria](/source/Third_Bulgarian_Empire) (modern [North Macedonia](/source/North_Macedonia)). His father was an ethnic [Aromanian](/source/Aromanians) lawyer [Filota Fila](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Filota_Fila&action=edit&redlink=1) and his mother Eli was the daughter of a merchant from [Belgrade](/source/Belgrade). After the Bulgarian occupation authorities expelled them from Bitola, his father's hometown, they had to move to [Nazi-occupied Serbia](/source/Nazi-occupied_Serbia). Toma spent the war years with his mother in [Negotin](/source/Negotin), while his father worked in Belgrade and in 1943 he was arrested for being a [Yugoslav Partisan](/source/Yugoslav_Partisans) member, for which he was detained in the [Banjica concentration camp](/source/Banjica_concentration_camp) and then taken to the [Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp](/source/Mauthausen-Gusen_Concentration_Camp).[1]

He finished elementary and high school in Belgrade and in 1963 graduated from the [Faculty of Law](/source/University_of_Belgrade_Faculty_of_Law) at the [University of Belgrade](/source/University_of_Belgrade).[2]

## Law career

Following his graduation, he became the youngest lawyer in [Yugoslavia](/source/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia) and continued to work in his father's law office. Fila and his father were against the death penalty and often defended the accused for the most serious crimes. He served as the president of the Serbian Bar Association from 1990 to 1994.[3] He was twice the president of the Federation of the Yugoslav Bar Association.[4] Throughout his career, he defended [Jovanka Broz](/source/Jovanka_Broz), [Slobodan Milošević](/source/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87), [Žarko Laušević](/source/%C5%BDarko_Lau%C5%A1evi%C4%87), [Goran Hadžić](/source/Goran_Had%C5%BEi%C4%87) and others.[3]

## Political career

His political career started in 2008 when he was named legal advisor of [Ivica Dačić](/source/Ivica_Da%C4%8Di%C4%87), at that time the [deputy prime minister of Serbia](/source/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Serbia) and the [minister of internal affairs](/source/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_(Serbia)).[5][6] In 2017, he joined SPS and, one year later, he was elected to the [City Assembly of Belgrade](/source/City_Assembly_of_Belgrade) following the [2018 local elections](/source/2018_Belgrade_City_Assembly_election).[3] Shortly after, on 7 June, he resigned as a member of the City Assembly.[7] He currently serves as the member of the presidency of the Socialist Party of Serbia.[8]

Following the [2020 Serbian parliamentary election](/source/2020_Serbian_parliamentary_election), Fila was elected member of the [National Assembly](/source/National_Assembly_(Serbia)).[9] In February 2022, Fila was named the ballot carrier and SPS's candidate for [Mayor of Belgrade](/source/Mayor_of_Belgrade) at the upcoming [Belgrade City Assembly election](/source/2022_Belgrade_City_Assembly_election).[10]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Поповић, Рајна. ["Дедино лицидерско срце"](https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/37739/Dedino-licidersko-srce). *Politika Online*. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Toma Fila"](https://otvoreniparlament.rs/poslanik/8983). *otvoreniparlament.rs*. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:0_3-2) ["Kandidat za gradonačelnika Beograda Toma Fila: Advokat za specijalne namene – Izbori 2022. – Nedeljnik Vreme"](https://www.vreme.com/vesti/kandidat-za-gradonacelnika-beograda-toma-fila-avokat-za-specijalne-namene/). *www.vreme.com* (in Serbian). 16 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Advokati "Fila""](http://advokatifila.com/sr/o-nama.php). *advokatifila.com*. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Teodorović, Miloš (16 October 2008). ["Košarkaš Divac savetnik Ivice Dačića"](https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/1330478.html). *Radio Slobodna Evropa* (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Savetnik Toma Fila o Hagu"](https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2008&mm=11&dd=04&nav_category=206&nav_id=326968). *B92.net* (in Serbian). 11 April 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Svetislav Goncić, Vesna Stanojević i Toma Fila podneli ostavke | N1 Srbija"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200203034053/http://rs.n1info.com/Vesti/a394551/Svetislav-Goncic-Vesna-Stanojevic-i-Toma-Fila-podneli-ostavke.html). 3 February 2020. Archived from [the original](http://rs.n1info.com/Vesti/a394551/Svetislav-Goncic-Vesna-Stanojevic-i-Toma-Fila-podneli-ostavke.html) on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Toma Fila: Branilac i "advokat Beograda" – Ljudi – Dnevni list Danas"](https://www.danas.rs/ljudi/toma-fila-branilac-i-advokat-beograda/) (in Serbian). 17 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Narodna skupština Republike Srbije | Narodni poslanik"](http://www.parlament.gov.rs/TOMA_FILA.1121.891.html). *www.parlament.gov.rs*. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["SPS PREDALA LISTU ZA GRADSKE IZBORE: Toma Fila kandidat socijalista za gradonačelnika"](https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/izbori-2022/1086874/sps-predala-listu-gradske-izbore-toma-fila-kandidat-socijalista-gradonacelnika). *NOVOSTI* (in Serbian). Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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