Aleksandar Đedovac Explained

Aleksandar Đedovac (Serbian: Александар Ђедовац; born 20 November 1969) is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Bačka Palanka from 2013 to 2016 and has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2016. Đedovac is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

Đedovac has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.^[1]

Politician

Municipal politics

Đedovac led the Progressive Party's electoral list for Bačka Palanka in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won nine mandates.^{[2] [3]} The Progressive Party subsequently participated in a local coalition government, and Đedovac was appointed as deputy mayor.^[4] Following a restructuring of the local government in March 2013, he was reassigned as mayor.^[5] In 2014, Bačka Palanka was listed as the most successful municipality in Serbia in terms of development; in an interview with Al Jazeera Balkans, Đedovac credited this to the municipality's work in seeking out investors.^[6] He was not a candidate for re-election at the local level in 2016.

Đedovac also received the 163rd position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.^[7] The list won seventy-three seats, and he was not elected.

Assembly of Vojvodina

Đedovac was given the forty-seventh position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.^[8] He was promoted to the twenty-eighth position on the list in the 2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates.^[9] He is now the chair of the assembly committee on security and a member of the committee on national equality.^[10]

References

1. https://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Poslanici.aspx?id=1444&s=poslanici Aleksandar Đedovac
2. Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 27 Number 11 (24 April 2012), p. 255.
3. Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 27 Number 12 (8 May 2012), p. 274.
4. 'Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 27 Number 15 (5 July 2012), p. 296.
5. http://www.rtv.rs/sk/vojvodina/djedovac-opstala-vladajuca-koalicija-u-backoj-palanci_381605.html "Đedovac: Opstala vladajuća koalicija u Bačkoj Palanci"
6. https://balkans.aljazeera.net/news/balkan/2014/12/24/backa-palanka-primjer-uspjesnosti "Bačka Palanka primjer uspješnosti"
7. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/arhiva-izbori-za-narodne-poslanike-2012.php Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ПОКРЕНИМО СРБИЈУ - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ (Српска напредна странка, Нова Србија, Асоцијација малих и средњих предузећа и предузетника Србије, Коалиција удружења избјеглица у Републици Србији, Покрет снага Србије - БК, Народна сељачка странка, Бошњачка народна странка, Демократска партија Македонаца, Ромска партија, Покрет влашког уједињења, Покрет социјалиста, Покрет привредни препород Србије))
8. http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2016 Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа)
9. http://pik.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Strana?s=izborneliste&i=2020 Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.)
10. https://www.skupstinavojvodine.gov.rs/Poslanici.aspx?id=1444&s=poslanici Aleksandar Đedovac