Goran Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Горан Николић; born 1967) is a politician in

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. He has served in 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 ...

from 2016 to 2020, at which time he became the mayor of

Odžaci Odžaci ( sr-cyrl, Оџаци, ; hu, Hódság) is a town and municipality located in the West Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Odžaci has a population of 8,795 people, while the population of the mu ...

. Nikolić is a member of

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 ...

Private career

Nikolić is a customs officer in

in the autonomous province of

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 ...

Politician

Nikolić received the twenty-fifth position on the Progressive Party's '' Let's Get Vojvodina Moving''

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in the

2012 Vojvodina provincial election Provincial elections were held in Vojvodina in May 2012. The first round was held on 6 May, while the second round was held on 20 May. Lists which participated in the elections # Choice for a Better Vojvodina - Dr Bojan Pajtić (Izbor za bolj ...

. (At this time, half the seats in the Assembly of Vojvodina were determined by

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and half by single-member constituency elections.) The list won fourteen seats and Nikolić did not serve in his party's assembly delegation. He was subsequently a member of the Odžaci municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) from 2014 to 2016, with responsibility for agriculture and rural development. He received the sixty-fifth position on the Progressive Party's ''

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 ...

– Serbia Is Winning'' list in the

2016 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 24 April 2016. Initially, the election were originally due to be held by March 2018, but on 17 January 2016 Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called for a snap election claiming Serbia "needs four m ...

and was elected when the list won a majority with 131 out of 250 mandates. In parliament, he was a member of the committee on the diaspora and

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in the region, a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. He was not a candidate for re-election to parliament in 2020. Nikolić led the Progressive Party to a majority victory for Odžaci in the 2020 Serbian local elections and was chosen as mayor when the new assembly convened.Petar Dukić, "Konstituisana lokalna vlast u opštini Odžaci"
''Radio Odžaci'', 20 August 2020, accessed 12 February 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nikolic, Goran 1967 births Living people People from Odžaci Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Mayors of places in Serbia Serbian Progressive Party politicians