Safet Pavlović ( sr-Cyrl, Сафет Павловић; born 18 June 1965) is a Serbian politician serving as the mayor of

Žagubica Žagubica ( sr-cyr, Жагубица, ; or ) is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of the eastern Serbia. It is situated in the geographical region of Homolje. The population of the village is 2,110 while population o ...

since 2013. A former member of the

Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006. SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance ...

(SPS), he is now a member of the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...

(SNS).

Early life and education

Pavlović was born on 18 June 1965 in Medveđica,

SR Serbia The Socialist Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Социјалистичка Република Србија, Socijalistička Republika Srbija), previously known as the People's Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / " ...

SFR Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

. He is an ethnic

Vlach Vlach ( ), also Wallachian and many other variants, is a term and exonym used from the Middle Ages until the Modern Era to designate speakers of Eastern Romance languages living in Southeast Europe—south of the Danube (the Balkan peninsula) ...

. He graduated from the Faculty of Management in

Zaječar Zaječar ( sr-Cyrl, Зајечар, ; or ) is a city and the administrative center of the Zaječar District in eastern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city administrative area had a population of 48,621 inhabitants. Zaječar is widely ...

in 2007, majoring in banking, finance and stock market management.

Political career

He started his political career in 2008 as a member of the

(SPS) and was the president of its branch in

. He participated in the elections for the . Pavlović served as the assistant to the mayor of Žagubica. Since 22 March 2013, he has been serving as the mayor of Žagubica, He joined the

(SNS) in 2015. He was re-elected mayor in 2016 and 2020.

Controversies

In 1994, Pavlović was arrested for falsifying documents. In 2002, as an owner of a night club, Pavlović was arrested for mediation in prostitution after a Moldovan and Romanian woman, suspected of prostitution, were found in his night club. In December 2022, Pavlović threatened an environmental activist, telling him that if "someone hits on my name, then we cut you". In April 2023, during an environmental protest in Žagubica, Pavlović was provoking the protesters by sending them kisses and eventually physically attacking MPs

Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta Aleksandar Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Јовановић; born 30 September 1966), commonly known by his nickname Ćuta, is a Serbian environmental and political activist who has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbi ...

and Radmila Vasić.

References

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