Predrag Vuković ( sr-cyr, Предраг Вуковић; born 31 May 1966) is a politician in

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. He was the

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Šid Šid ( sr-cyr, Шид, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Srem District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It has a population of 12,628, while the municipality has 27,894 inhabitants (2022 census). A border crossing betw ...

from 2016 to 2020 and has served in the

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since 2020. Vuković is a member of the

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Early life and private career

Vuković was born in

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, in what was then the

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in the

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. He has a degree from the

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and has been a company director in both the private and public sectors in Šid.

Politician

Municipal politics

Vuković appeared in the lead position on the Progressive Party's

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for the 2016 local election in Šid. The list won a majority victory with twenty-three out of thirty-nine seats, and he was chosen as mayor when the assembly convened. In 2017, he oversaw the removal of migrant refugees from a centre in the town's downtown core, stating that there had been confrontations between refugees at that particular centre and the local population. He dismissed suggestions that his actions were motivated by xenophobia and noted that the municipality housed two other refugee centres that did not have the same issues. He did not seek re-election at the local level in 2020.

Assembly of Vojvodina

Vuković received the forty-seventh position on the Progressive-led ''

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'' list in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six out of 120 mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on culture and public information and the committee on organization of administration and local self-government.Predrag Vuković
Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 8 April 2021.

References

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