Dragan Maršićanin ( sr-Cyrl, Драган Маршићанин; born 26 January 1950) is a Serbian economist and politician. He was the ambassador of Serbia to Switzerland from 2004 to 2009. He served as the Minister of Economy in 2004, only to leave it in order to run for president in 2004. He later resigned from the position and was replaced by Predrag Bubalo in October 2004. In the

2004 Serbian presidential election Presidential elections were held in the Republic of Serbia on Sunday, 13 June 2004. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on Sunday, 27 June. Boris Tadić, the pro-western Democratic Party's candidate, was the ...

Maršićanin finished 4th with 13.3% of the vote. He was the

President of the National Assembly of Serbia The president of the National Assembly of Serbia () is the presiding officer of the National Assembly of Serbia. The president is elected by members of each new assembly for a term lasting four years. The president of the National Assembly s ...

in 2001 and in 2004, and the interim acting

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between 4 February and 3 March 2004. Maršićanin graduated from the

University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics The University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics (/''Ekonomski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu'') is one of the educational institutions of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. The building is located in the city center of Belgrade, in the Savski ...

. Following university studies, he worked for companies such as ''Elektron'', ''Novi Kolektiv'' and ''Belgrade Water Utility Company''. He has been a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia since the party's founding. For a time he was the secretary of party, and currently is its vice-president. He served as chairman of

Vračar Vračar ( sr-Cyrl, Врачар, ) is an affluent urban area and Subdivisions of Belgrade, municipality of the city of Belgrade known as the location of many embassies and museums. According to the 2022 census results, the municipality has a popul ...

municipality in Belgrade until 1996.

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