Predrag Cvetanović ( sr-cyr, Предраг Цветановић; born 1967) is a politician in

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. He was the

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Odžaci Odžaci ( sr-cyrl, Оџаци, ; ) 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 7,556 people, while the population of the municipality of ...

from 2010 to 2012 and served in the

Assembly of Vojvodina The Assembly of Vojvodina ( sr-cyrl, Скупштина Војводине, Skupština Vojvodine), officially known as the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (; ; ; ; Pannonian Rusyn: Скупштина Автономней Покр� ...

from 2012 to 2016. During his time as an elected official, Cvetanović was a member of the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS).

Private career

Cvetanović is an English teacher based in Odžaci.

Politician

Serbia introduced the direct election of mayors in the 2004 local elections. Cvetanović was the DS's nominee in Odžaci; he was defeated by Milan Ćuk of the far-right

Serbian Radical Party The Serbian Radical Party (, abbr. SRS) is a Far-right politics in Serbia, far-right, Ultranationalism, ultranationalist List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. Founded in 1991, its co-founder, first and only leader is ...

(''Srpska radikalna stranka'', SRS) in the second round. The direct election of mayors proved to be a short-lived experiment and was abandoned in the 2008 local elections. Cvetanović was elected to the Odžaci municipal assembly in a 2010 off-year municipal election and was chosen as mayor when the DS won a plurality victory. The highlight of his mayoralty was signing an agreement in July 2012 with Magna Seating Chomutov (a unit of

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), in which the company received free land for a plant assembling car-seat covers. He was elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2012 provincial election for the Odžaci constituency seat. The DS and its allies won the election, and Cvetanović served for the next four years as a supporter of the administration. He was a member of the province's security committee and the committee for the organization of administration and local self-government.Предраг Цветановић, , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 20 February 2022. Vojvodina switched to a system of full

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for the

2016 Vojvodina provincial election A provincial election was 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 ...

. Cvetanović was not a candidate for re-election.

Electoral record

Provincial (
Vojvodina Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies withi ...
)

Local (Odžaci)

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