Dragan Todorović (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Драган Тодоровић; born 25 January 1953) is a

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n politician who was the vice-president of the

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. He was the Radical Party representative in the Parliaments of

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and

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

. He was elected as a Radical Party representative in the

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twice, in January 2007 and in May 2008.

Political career

After

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, deputy leader of the SRS in the absence of

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, resigned from the party in 2008, Todorović became president of the Radical Party parliamentary group. Although Todorović was seen as the new Deputy Leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Šešelj decided to abolish this party function. While a member of the Serbian Radical Party, Todorović made statements that Serbia should include territory up to the

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, which would incorporate Bosnian and

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n sovereign territory.

Departure from the Serbian Radical Party

On May 27, 2012, '' Danas'' reported that Todorović was ejected by the Serbian Radical Party, allegedly due to a disagreement between himself and

.
Novi Magazin: Sukob u SRS: Razmirice Šešelja i Todorovića 27 May 2012 Three years later, after Šešelj was released from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Hague Tribunal, Serbian newspaper ''

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'' reported that Šešelj asked Todorović to return to SRS, and that Todorović rejected Šešelj's offer.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Todorovic, Dragan 1953 births Living people People from Gornji Milanovac Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia Serbian Radical Party politicians Serbian nationalists