Boris Popovič | |
Office: | Mayor of Koper |
Term Start: | 19 December 2002 |
Term End: | 21 December 2018 |
Predecessor: | Dino Pucer |
Successor: | Aleš Bržan |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1962 |
Birth Place: | Koper, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia |
Party: | SJN |
Alma Mater: | University of Ljubljana |
Boris Popovič (born 5 September 1962) is a Slovene politician and entrepreneur of Montenegrin descent who served as Mayor of Koper, Slovenia's fifth largest city from 2002 to 2018.[1] Prior to his political career, he was an accomplished rally driver and was the national rally champion in Slovenia in 1999. He ran in the 2017 Slovenian presidential election for the regionalist Slovenia is Ours political party but finished sixth.