Zijad Lugavić (born 15 October 1973) is a Bosnian politician serving as the 32nd mayor of Tuzla since December 2022. He is a member of the

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. Lugavić was born in

Tuzla Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...

in 1973. He graduated from the

University of Tuzla University of Tuzla ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Univerzitet u Tuzli, Универзитет у Тузли) is a public university located in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The university was founded in 1958. It became a proper university in 1976, and today ...

. He worked in administrative bodies and in the real sector before becoming mayor of Tuzla.

Early life and education

Lugavić was born on 15 October 1973 in

SR Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

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. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the

in 2000. He obtained his

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from the Faculty of Economics in Tuzla in 2014, and the title of Doctor of Social Science in the field of economics in 2020. Lugavić was part of the

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during the

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in the 1990s. Following the war and his undergraduate studies, he worked in administrative bodies and as an interpreter in a number of international organizations, before moving to the real sector.

Political career

Lugavić is a member of the

. When

Jasmin Imamović Jasmin Imamović (born 8 October 1957) is a Bosnian politician and writer serving as member of the national House of Representatives since 2022. He previously served as the 31st mayor of Tuzla from 2001 to 2022. Imamović is a member of the So ...

, long-time mayor of Tuzla, got elected to the national

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in the 2022 general election, he was forced to resign as mayor. Following his resignation, Lugavić, a close associate of Imamović, was unanimously elected as the acting mayor on 1 December 2022. Early elections to elect a new mayor of

were held on 5 February 2023. In the election, Lugavić was elected with 47.77%, a plurality of the vote. In the 2024 municipal elections, he was re-elected as mayor in a landslide, obtaining 75.38% of the vote.

Personal life

Lugavić is married and has two children. He lives with his family in

References

External links

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