Goran Ivančević ( sr-cyr, Горан Иванчевић; born 27 March 1970) is a Serbian politician. He was elected to the

Assembly of Vojvodina The Assembly of Vojvodina ( sr-cyrl, Скупштина Војводине, Skupština Vojvodine), officially known as the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (; ; ; ; Pannonian Rusyn: Скупштина Автономней Покр� ...

in the 2020 provincial election as a member of the

Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia The Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (, abbr. POKS) is a monarchist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It was founded in 2017 after a split withi ...

(''Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije'', POKS).

Private life and career

Ivančević was born in

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; ; ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 67,129 inh ...

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies withi ...

, in what was then the

Socialist Republic of Serbia The Socialist Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Социјалистичка Република Србија, Socijalistička Republika Srbija), previously known as the People's Republic of Serbia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / " ...

in the

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

. He holds a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional prac ...

(2012) and a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

(2016) in political science from Educons University, a private institution in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

. His doctoral thesis was on Vojvodina's political system since the re-introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990. He has served as deputy provincial secretary for regional development, inter-regional co-operation, and local self-government in the

government of Vojvodina The Provincial Government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina () is the executive organ of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, within the Republic of Serbia. For its actions it is accountable to the Assembly of Vojvodina. The rights and duti ...

Politician

Ivančević was a member of the executive board of the

Serbian Renewal Movement The Serbian Renewal Movement (, abbr. SPO) is a liberal and monarchist political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1990 by writer Vuk Drašković, who served as the party's president until 2024. Aleksandar Cvetković is the incumbent leader. ...

until 2017, when he and other party officials resigned in protest against

Vuk Drašković Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the co-founder and former leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, serving as president from 1990 to 2024. He also served as th ...

's continued leadership of the party. He subsequently became a founding member of the POKS and is its current secretary-general. He received the lead position on the POKS

electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...

for the Vojvodina provincial assembly in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won five mandates. He is the leader of the POKS group in the assembly, the deputy chair of the committee on culture and public information, and a member of the committee for administrative and mandate issues. He also received the ninety-second position on the party's list for the

National Assembly of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ), fully the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (), is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are ...

in the concurrent

2020 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 21 June 2020. Initially organized for 26 April 2020, they were postponed by a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia, COVID-19 pandemic in the country. In the period before the ...

. This list did not cross the

electoral threshold The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of votes that a candidate or political party requires before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can operate in various ...

to win seats in the assembly. Ivančević holds right-wing views on issues of cultural identity. In the 2020 elections, he described migrant refugees in Serbia as a "security threat" and said that the country should close its borders to refugees, including those whom he described as "jihadists."Коалиција ЗА КРАЉЕВИНУ СРБИЈУ (ПОКС, Монархистички фронт, Српски покрет монархиста) – Жика Гојковић
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia, 28 May 2020, accessed 26 August 2020.

References

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