Borislav Antonić ( sr-cyr, Борислав Антонић; born 23 February 1964) is a politician in

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. He was the

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of Bač from 2017 to 2020 and has served in the

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since 2020. Antonić is a member of the

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Private career

Antonić was born in Bač,

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, in what was then the

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in the

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. He is a legal technician.

Politician

Municipal politics

Antonić entered political life as a member of the far-right

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. He received the second position on the party's

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for Bač in the

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and was elected when the list won two mandates. He was also given the fortieth position on the party's list concurrent

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; the party won only five seats, and he was not returned. At some time after the 2012 election, he left the Radicals and joined the Progressive Party. He was selected as president (i.e., speaker) of the local assembly following a change in government in May 2014. Antonić was given the second position on the Progressive Party's list for Bač in the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with eleven out of twenty-five mandates. He was initially selected for another term as assembly president following the election, and fellow party member Dragan Stašević was chosen as mayor. On 10 October 2017, Stašević resigned and Antonić was selected as mayor in his place. He remained in office for three years and did not seek re-election at the municipal level in 2020.

Assembly of Vojvodina

Antonić received the forty-eighth position on the Progressive Party's ''

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'' list in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six out of 120 mandates. In October 2020, he was selected as president of the committee for establishing the equal authenticity of provincial legislation in the languages in official use. He is also a member of the committee on national equality.Borislav Antonić
Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 9 April 2021.

References

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