Pavel Surovi ( sr-cyr, Павел Сурови, ; born 1980), 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 ...

from the country's Slovak community. He is the leader of the

Slovaks Forward Slovaks Forward ( sk, Slováci vpred; sr-cyrl, Словаци напред, Slovaci napred, SN) is a political party in Serbia representing the Slovak national minority. Its leader is Pavel Surovi. The party is aligned with Aleksandar Vučić an ...

party and has been a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2016.

Private career

Surovi lives 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 ...

and holds a

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degree in Business Informatics. He has won awards as a graphic designer. Described as a passionate collector 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 ...

Slovak folk costumes from before

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, he has authored four photographic displays of Slovak culture in Serbia. The most recent, ''Corona'' (2020), was named both for the fact that it debuted during the

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(otherwise known as the coronavirus pandemic) and because of parallels between traditional Slovak clothing and European royal garb ("corona" translating as "crown"). Surovi is also the director of the culture centre in

Kisač Kisač ( sr-cyr, Кисач; Slovak: Kysáč) is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The settlement has a Slovak ethnic majority. Name In Serbian and Croatian the village is known as ''Kisač'' (Кисач); in Slovak as ...

Politician

Slovak National Council

Surovi appeared at the head of the Slovaks Forward

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in the 2014 election for Serbia's Slovak National Council and was elected when the list won nine out of twenty-nine mandates. In 2017, he accused council president Ana Tomanova Makanova of inappropriate spending. At around the same time, the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina issued a statement that Surovi had been harassing and exerting political pressure on some Slovak-language journalists in the province. He led the party's list again in the 2018 council elections and was re-elected when the list won eight mandates. He served as vice-president of the council after the election, although he was removed from this position in February 2021.

Provincial politics

Slovaks Forward became an official political party in late 2015. The party contested the

2016 Vojvodina provincial election Provincial elections were held in Vojvodina on 24 April 2016. Electoral system The 120 members of the Assembly are elected by proportional representation in a single provincial constituency with a 5% electoral threshold, although the threshold i ...

as part 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 ...

's coalition; Surovi received the thirty-third position on the Progressive Party's list and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He was confirmed for a new term as party leader in 2019. Surovi was promoted to the sixteenth position on the Progressive-led coalition list for the 2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates. He now is a member of the assembly committee on national equality and the committee on culture and public information. He sits in caucus with the Progressive Party's '' Aleksandar Vučić – For Our Children'' parliamentary group.Pavel Surový
Assembly of Vojvodina, accessed 8 February 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Surovi, Pavel 1980 births Living people Politicians from Novi Sad Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina Members of the Slovak National Council (Serbia) Slovaks Forward politicians Slovaks of Vojvodina