Dubravko Bojić ( sr-cyr, Дубравко Бојић; born 1953) is a Serbian politician. He served in the

Serbian parliament The National Assembly ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ), fully the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (), is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are ...

from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the far-right

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(SRS).

Private career

Bojić is a retired professor of the

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living in

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Politician

Bojić received the seventeenth position on the Radical Party's

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in the

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and was elected when the party won twenty-two mandates. The

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(SNS) and its allies won a majority victory, and the Radicals served afterward in

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. During his assembly term, Bojić was a member of the education committee, a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee and the health and family committee, a member of a commission to "investigate the consequences of the NATO 1999 bombing on the health of the citizens of Serbia, as well as the environment, with a special focus on the impact of the depleted uranium projectiles," and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and

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. In March 2017, Bojić participated in a Radical Party parliamentary delegation to

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to mark the three-year anniversary of the area's ''de facto'' joining of the

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. The government of

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, which considers Crimea to be its sovereign territory, issued a five-year travel ban to Bojić and other members of the delegation. Two months later, Bojić took part in a Radical Party delegation to the breakaway

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. He returned to Crimea in November 2017, visiting

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with fellow parliamentarian

Aleksandar Šešelj Aleksandar Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Шешељ; born 25 September 1993) is a Serbian politician. He served in the Serbian parliament from 2017 to 2020 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Šešelj is the son ...

and co-founding a group called "Friends of Crimea." In March 2018, Bojić took part in a multi-party delegation of Serbian parliamentarians to monitor the

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. He was promoted to the ninth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2020 parliamentary election and to the seventh position on the party's list for the

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."Ko su kandidati Srpske radikalne stranke za poslanike"
''Danas'', 18 February 2022, accessed 3 June 2022. In both instances, the party fell below the

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for assembly representation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bojic, Dubravko 1953 births Living people Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Politicians from Belgrade Serbian Radical Party politicians