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Vladan Vasić ( sr-cyr, Владан Васић; born 1971) is a politician in
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. He has served as the
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of
Pirot Pirot ( sr-Cyrl, Пирот) is a city and the administrative center of the Pirot District in southeastern Serbia. According to 2022 census, the urban area of the city has a population of 34,942, while the population of the city administrative are ...
since 2003 and also served a brief term in the
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in 2012. Leader for many years of the local Coalition for Pirot, Vasić joined the
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in February 2020.


Early life and private career

Vasić was born in 1971 in Pirot, in what was then the
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in the
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. He graduated from the
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Faculty of Electronic Engineering in 1996, worked as a systems engineer for six years, and received his
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from the University of Niš in 2003.


Political career

Vasić was elected to the Pirot municipal assembly in 2000 as a member of the
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, a broad coalition of parties opposed to
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's administration. He was first elected as mayor in late 2003, defeating
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candidate Dragan Todorović in the second round of a direct election. In 2005, he announced a partnership with the mayor of nearby
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,
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, for cross-border co-operation. The following year, he rejected the far-right Serbian Radical Party's argument that Pirot should reject the donation of a city bus from the Dutch city of
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while Serbian military and political figures were detained by the
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in the same city; Vasić noted that the municipal government and the tribunal were entirely different entities. Vasić and the Coalition for Pirot were re-elected in
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, running in an alliance with the
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party. In 2009–2010, Vasić took part in negotiations with G17 Plus and other regional party leaders that led to the creation of the
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(URS) alliance. This caused a serious split at the local level; some Coalition for Pirot members who opposed joining the URS sought to overturn Vasić's leadership and expel him from the movement. Vasić responded that the Coalition for Pirot was not a formal political organization and that the expulsion effort was therefore meaningless. At around the same time, Vasić brought the local committee of the Radical Party into his municipal governing alliance following the departure of the Democratic Party. This was a controversial decision; Serbian deputy prime minister
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subsequently refused to visit Pirot during a tour of south Serbia. Vasić became involved in a controversy with a local newspaper in 2011, after he accused a journalist of interfering with the business of the municipal assembly by making an unauthorized recording on a handheld device. The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia criticized Vasić in this matter. Meetings of the assembly are open to the public and are broadcast on public media. In 2012, Vasić signed a memorandum of understanding for the company
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to expand its Tigar Tyres plant in the municipality. Vasić received the fifth position on the URS
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in the
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as a G17 Plus candidate and was elected to the National Assembly when the list won sixteen mandates. He was also selected for a third term mayor after his alliance's victory in the 2012 local elections. Legally prevented from holding a
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, he resigned his parliamentary seat on 30 August 2012; in so doing, he remarked that he did not agree with the law and did not believe he was in a
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situation. The various groups in the URS merged into a united political party in 2013. Vasić received the eighth position on its list for the 2014 parliamentary election, but the list did not cross the
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to win representation in the assembly and subsequently dissolved. Vasić led the Coalition for Pirot to another victory in the
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, narrowly defeating the list of the
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. This was the first local election to take place in Pirot after the municipality was upgraded to a city. Vasić was once again confirmed as mayor after the election, forming a new government with the Progressive Party. In February 2020, he announced that the Coalition for Pirot had collectively joined the Progressive Party. A 2018 profile piece in the newspaper '' Danas'' reviewed Vasić's first fifteen years in office.Zoran Panić, "Vladan Vasić obeležio 15 godina otkako je na čelu Pirota"
''Danas'', 4 December 2018, accessed 24 January 2020.


References


External links


Vladan Vasić profile at the Grad Pirot website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasic, Vladan 1971 births Living people People from Pirot Mayors of places in Serbia Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) G17 Plus politicians United Regions of Serbia politicians Serbian Progressive Party politicians