Branislav Nedimović (; born 27 November 1977) is a Serbian politician who served as

deputy prime minister of Serbia The Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia ( sr, Потпредседник Владе Србије / Potpredsednik Vlade Srbije, literally translated as Vice President of the Government of Serbia), is the official Deputy of the Prime Minister of Serb ...

from 2020 to 2022 and as minister of agriculture, forestry and water economy from 2016 to 2022. A member of the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012. Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...

(SNS), he previously served as mayor of

Sremska Mitrovica Sremska Mitrovica (; sr-Cyrl, Сремска Митровица, hu, Szávaszentdemeter, la, Sirmium) is a city and the administrative center of the Srem District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the left bank ...

from 2008 to 2016.

Biography

Branislav Nedimović was born on 27 November 1977. Nedimović completed elementary school and high school in his hometown of

. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law with a bachelor's degree. He was elected a Member of the

National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 Deputy (legislator), deputies who are Proportional representation, pr ...

in 2003 as a member of the

Democratic Party of Serbia The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Initially known and formed as Democ ...

. He was re-elected MP in 2008, but resigned due to accepting the position of the mayor of

. He left the Democratic Party of Serbia in the same year, and was active in the "Mitrovica European Region" movement, which has had cooperation with the

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(not the same as the Democratic Party of Serbia) since 2009 which he joined at the end of 2010. He served as the mayor of Sremska Mitrovica until 2016. In 2015, he joined the

, and since 2016 he has been a member of the presidency. He is also the Vice President of the board of directors of the National Alliance for Local and Economic Development. On 11 August 2016, he was appointed as a Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy in Vučić's administration. In February 2017, the

Prime Minister of Serbia The prime minister of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, премијерка Србије, premijerka Srbije; masculine: премијер/premijer), officially the president of the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, председница Влад� ...

Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012. Vučić served ...

declared that he will run for president at the

2017 Serbian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Serbia on 2 April 2017. Incumbent president Tomislav Nikolić was eligible to run for a second five-year term, but opted not to do so. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić was elected president in the first round ...

s. He won the elections in the first round beating

Saša Janković Saša Janković ( sr-cyr, Саша Јанковић, ; born 27 April 1970) is a Serbian lawyer, journalist, human rights activist and politician who served as the National Ombudsman of the Republic of Serbia between 2007 and 2017. He resigned his ...

with 55.06% of the votes and was sworn in as the

President of Serbia The president of Serbia ( sr, Председник Србије, Predsednik Srbije), officially styled as the President of the Republic ( sr, Председник Републике, Predsednik Republike) is the head of state of Serbia. The curr ...

on 31 May 2017. Weeks later, he gave mandate to

Ana Brnabić Ana Brnabić ( sr-cyr, Ана Брнабић, ; born 28 September 1975) is a Serbian politician serving as the prime minister of Serbia since 2017. She is the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the office. She entered government a ...

to form the new cabinet. On 29 June 2017, the cabinet of Ana Brnabić was formed, with Nedimović keeping his office. In April 2020, he was named as the head of the Serbian Crisis Staff for

Nišava The Nišava or Nishava (Bulgarian and sr-Cyrl, Нишава, ) is a river in Bulgaria and Serbia, a right tributary, and with a length of also the longest one, of the South Morava. Course Bulgaria The Nišava originates in western Bulgar ...

and

Toplica District The Toplica District ( sr, Топлички округ, Toplički okrug, ) is an administrative district in southern Serbia, named after the river Toplica. With a population of 91,754, it has the smallest population of all Serbian districts. It ...

to combat the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...

. He was selected as a ballot carrier for the Serbian Progressive Party for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.

Personal life

Nedimović has been playing

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since elementary school, and currently plays for FK Sloga Zasavica in the Sremska Mitrovica League. Among all registered

UEFA Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...

players, except for Branislav Nedimović, there is no minister of any government in Europe to officially play football for a team competing in an organized league. Nedimović is married and has two children.

References

External links

Званични сајт rs.n1info.com

Малине у грлу („Политика”, 9. јун 2018)

Продаја ПКБ-а била је најбоља опција – интервју („Политика”, 22. септембар 2018)

Ко год буде премијер, мораће много да ради – интервју („Политика”, 18. март 2020)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nedimovic Branislav 1977 births Living people Serbian Progressive Party politicians People from Sremska Mitrovica Mayors of places in Serbia Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Government ministers of Serbia University of Novi Sad alumni __FORCETOC__ Democratic Party of Serbia politicians Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Deputy Prime Ministers of Serbia Politicians of Vojvodina