Aleksandar Odžić (; born 1968) is a Serbian politician who has been a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina since 31 July 2020. A Vojvodina autonomist, he has been the president of the

Vojvodina's Party The Vojvodina's Party ( sr-cyrl, Војвођанска партија, Vojvođanska partija; , VP) is a political party in Serbia that operates in Vojvodina. Party platform It calls for a change of the Constitution of Serbia, which would re ...

(VP) since 2009.

Private career

Odžić was born in 1968 in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

SAP Vojvodina The Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( sh, / ) was one of two autonomous provinces within the Socialist Republic of Serbia, in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The province is the direct predecessor to the moder ...

SR Serbia , life_span = 1944–1992 , status = Constituent state of Yugoslavia , p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia , flag_p1 = Flag of German Reich (1935–1945).svg , p2 ...

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...

. By profession, Odžić claims to be a graduate manager of security. He is employed at JVP Vode Vojvodine as an independent professional associate for safety, occupational health and fire protection. He also worked in

SPC Vojvodina SPC Vojvodina ( sr-cyr, СПЦ Војводина), short for Sports and Business Center Vojvodina ( sr, Спортски и пословни центар Војводина, Sportski i poslovni centar Vojvodina), commonly referred to as SPENS ( s ...

, Novi Sad City Administration for Inspection Affairs, VDP "Šajkaška" and Novi Sad company AMB "Grafika".

Political career

Odžić started his political career as a member of the

centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The c ...

League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina The League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina ( sr-cyrl, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine, LSV) is an autonomist political party in Serbia. Its current leader since 19 November 2022 is B ...

(LSV). During his tenure in LSV he held several public and party positions. He was a member of the City Assembly of Novi Sad from 2000 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2008 and a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2000 to 2004. Odžić was the founder and president of the Novi Sad Party, which along with several Vojvodina parties and organizations, merged into

(VP). Odžić was elected president of VP in 2009. In the 2020 provincial election, VP contested as part of the Vojvodina Front (VF) alliance and Odžić was elected member in the Assembly of Vojvodina once again. Following the constitution of the Assembly of Vojvodina, Odžić was sworn in as provincial MP on 31 July 2020. He was appointed deputy chairman of the VF parliamentary group.

Political positions

Odžić is a Vojvodina autonomist, advocating for higher level of autonomy for

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

. His views and statements are controversial in the rest of Serbia where he is often labeled a

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...

. Beginning in 2021, Odžić and the Vojvodina Front have campaigned on introducing "Vojvodinian" as a nationality for the 2022 census. However, their campaign went unsuccessful, considering that "Vojvodinian" retained its status as a regional identity, and not a national one.

Personal life

He declares himself Vojvodinian by ethnicity. He has three daughters. Besides

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...

, he also speaks English.

References

1968 births Politicians from Novi Sad Vojvodina autonomists League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina politicians Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina Living people {{DEFAULTSORT:Odžić, Aleksandar