Saša Šućurović ( sr-cyr, Саша Шућуровић; born 1968) is a Serbian politician. He was

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Novi Bečej Novi Bečej (, ) is a town and municipality located in the Central Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 10,967, while Novi Bečej municipality has 19,886 inhabitants (2022 census). Name ...

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 ...

, from 2012 to 2016 and has served in the

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since November 2016 as a member of the

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(LSV).

Private career

Šućurović is an entrepreneur.

Political career

Liberal Democratic Party

Šućurović was a prominent member of Serbia's

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(LDP) for many years, appearing as a candidate on its

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s in the

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, and

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Serbian parliamentary elections and the

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, although he did not receive a mandate on any of these occasions. He was an assistant to Novi Bečej mayor Milivoj Vrebalov following the

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and was himself chosen as mayor after the

elections with the support of twenty out of thirty-one members in the local assembly. In this capacity, he supported construction of a docking facility to improve tourism opportunities in the community.

League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina

Šućurović left the LDP in September 2015 following a period of tension with the party establishment and joined the LSV on the same day. In April 2016, he refuted Vojvodina president

Bojan Pajtić Bojan Pajtić ( sr-cyr, Бојан Пајтић; born 2 May 1970) is a Serbian lawyer and former politician who is a professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law. A member of the Democratic Party (DS), he served as the president of th ...

's suggestion that his municipal administration was obstructing the restoration of Heterlend Castle. His term as mayor came to an end in June of the same year when the

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formed a new local administration. The LSV contested the

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in alliance with the LDP and the

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(SDS). Šućurović received the 235th position out of 250 on their combined electoral list; this was too low a position for election to be a realistic prospect. Šućurović also received the thirteenth position on the LSV's list in the concurrent

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and was not initially elected when the party won nine mandates. He was, however, awarded a mandate on 24 November 2016 as a replacement for Đorđe Stojšić, who had resigned. The election was won by the Progressive Party and its allies, and Šućurović serves with the

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. He is currently a member of the committee on budget and finance, and the committee on petitions and motions.Saša Šućurović
Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 23 April 2019.

References

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