Zoran Bojanić

Zoran Bojanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Бојанић; born February 26, 1959) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Zoran Bojanić

Early life and career

Bojanić was born in Kraljevo, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He trained as an economist and subsequently worked for Telekom Srbija.[1][2] He had a successful battle with leukemia between 2010 and 2013; Politika interviewed him on the subject after his recovery.[3]

Political career

Bojanić was president of the Progressive Party's local board in Kraljevo in 2013 and 2014. He resigned from the position in June 2014 against the backdrop of a disagreement between the local and national party organizations over Kraljevo mayor Dragan Jovanović.[4]

Bojanić was first elected to the National Assembly in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election; he received the seventieth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list and was elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.[5] The Progressive Party subsequently formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and other parties, and Bojanić served as part of the government's parliamentary majority.

He was re-elected in the 2014 and 2016 elections, both of which were won easily by the Progressive Party and its allies.[6] During the 2016–20 parliament, Bojanić was a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the committee on finance, the state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the committee for the diaspora and Serbs in the region;; the leader of the parliamentary friendship group with Canada; and a member of the friendship groups to Belarus, Ghana, Italy, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Russia, Slovenia, and Switzerland.[7]

Bojanić received the 118th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election[8] and was elected to a fourth term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

References
  1. ZORAN BOJANIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 August 2017.
  2. Zoran Bojanic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 8 March 2017. A Serbian media report from 2000 lists a Zoran Bojanić from Kraljevo as having been the deputy chair of the local Socialist Party of Serbia organization. It is not known if this was the same person. See "Serbia's Kostunica expected at striking mine," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 2 October 2000 (Source: Beta news agency, Belgrade, in Serbo-Croat 2 Oct 00).
  3. Miroljub Dugalić, "Знао сaм да ћу победити рак" Politika, 30 December 2013, accessed 8 March 2017.
  4. N. Božović, "Predsednik gradskog odbora SNS u Kraljevu podneo ostavku", 17 June 2014, accessed 8 March 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  6. Bojanić received the seventy-fourth list position in 2014 and the fifty-second in 2016. Progressive Party's alliance won legislative majorities on both occasions. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017; and Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. Zoran Bojanic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  8. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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