Goran Ivančević ( sr-cyr, Горан Иванчевић; born 27 March 1970) is a politician in

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

. He was elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2020 provincial election as a member of the

Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia The Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia ( sr, link=, Покрет обнове Краљевине Србије, Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije; abbr. ПОКС or POKS) is a monarchist and national-conservative political party ...

(''Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije'', POKS).

Private life and career

Ivančević was born in

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; hu, Nagybecskerek; ro, Becicherecu Mare; sk, Zreňanin; german: Großbetschkerek) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous pro ...

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 ...

, in what was then the

Socialist Republic of 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 ...

in the

Socialist Federal Republic of 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 ...

. He holds a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

(2012) and a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

(2016) in political science from Educons University, a private institution 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 ...

. His doctoral thesis was on Vojvodina's political system since the re-introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990. He has served as deputy provincial secretary for regional development, inter-regional co-operation, and local self-government in the

government of Vojvodina The Provincial Government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina ( sr, Покрајинска влада Аутономне покрајине Војводине / Pokrajinska vlada Autonomne pokrajine Vojvodine) is the executive organ of the Aut ...

Politician

Ivančević was a member of the executive board of the

Serbian Renewal Movement The Serbian Renewal Movement ( sr-cyrl, Српски покрет обнове, Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) is a liberal and monarchist political party in Serbia. History The Serbian Renewal Movement party was founded in 1990 through the merger ...

until 2017, when he and other party officials resigned in protest against

Vuk Drašković Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, and served as the war-time Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...

's continued leadership of the party. He subsequently became a founding member of the POKS and is its current secretary-general. He received the lead position on the POKS

electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

for the Vojvodina provincial assembly in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won five mandates. He is the leader of the POKS group in the assembly, the deputy chair of the committee on culture and public information, and a member of the committee for administrative and mandate issues. He also received the ninety-second position on the party's list for the

National Assembly of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are proportionally elected to four-year terms by secret ballot. The as ...

in the concurrent 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. This list did not cross the

electoral threshold The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can ...

to win seats in the assembly. Ivančević holds right-wing views on issues of cultural identity. In the 2020 elections, he described migrant refugees in Serbia as a "security threat" and said that the country should close its borders to refugees, including those whom he described as "jihadists."Коалиција ЗА КРАЉЕВИНУ СРБИЈУ (ПОКС, Монархистички фронт, Српски покрет монархиста) – Жика Гојковић
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, 28 May 2020, accessed 26 August 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivancevic, Goran 1970 births Living people Politicians from Zrenjanin Politicians from Novi Sad Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina Serbian Renewal Movement politicians Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia politicians