Savo Dobranić

Savo Dobranić ( sr-cyr, Саво Добранић; born 1964) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2004 to 2012 and was the mayor of Kikinda from 2012 to 2013, as a member of the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS).

Early life and career

Dobranić was born in the village of Rusko Selo in the Kikinda municipality, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law. Dobranić was the director of the Centre for Social Work in Kikinda from 1997 to 2001, the head of Kikinda's secretariat for general administration and budget from 2001 to 2004, and the director of the holding company ''Dnevnik'' from 2006 to 2010.

Politician

Dobranić was first elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2004 provincial election, winning Kikinda's second constituency seat in the second round of voting. The Democratic Party formed a coalition government in the province after the election, and he served as part of its parliamentary majority. He also led the DS electoral list for Kikinda in the concurrent 2004 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won six mandates. The Serbian Radical Party (''Srpska radikalna stranka'', SRS) won the election at the local level, and the DS served in opposition.

He was re-elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2008 provincial election, in which the DS and its allies won an outright majority, and he again served as a supporter of the administration for the next four years. In 2009, he led a successful campaign to remove fellow DS member Jagoda Tolicki from office as mayor of Kikinda.

Dobranić was somewhat unexpectedly defeated in the first round of voting in the 2012 provincial election, losing much of his support on the centre-left to the eventual winner, Miloš Šibul of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (''Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine'', LSV). Despite losing his provincial seat, he again led the DS's local list for Kikinda in the concurrent 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won eleven mandates. The elections did not produce a clear winner, but the DS was able to form a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (''Socijalistička partija Srbije'', SPS), and Dobranić was chosen as the municipality's mayor. In February 2013, he signed an agreement for the construction of a water treatment plant in the municipality.

His term in office was ultimately brief. There was a shift in the municipality's political forces in September 2013, during which time the SPS withdrew its support from the DS administration. Dobranić was succeeded in office by Pavle Markov of the Serbian Progressive Party (''Srpska napredna stranka'', SNS).

Dobranić later appeared in the 102nd position on the Democratic Party's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (''СА ДЕМОКРАТСКОМ СТРАНКОМ ЗА ДЕМОКРАТСКУ СРБИЈУ'')
Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 May 2021. The list won only nineteen mandates, and he was not returned.

Electoral record

Provincial (

Vojvodina)

References

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1964 births
Living people
People from Kikinda
Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina
Mayors of places in Serbia
Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians