Miroslav Rodić ( sr-cyr, Мирослав Родић; born 8 March 1968) is a politician in

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. He has served in the municipal government of

Bačka Palanka Bačka Palanka ( sr-cyrl, Бачка Паланка, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the left bank of the Danube. In 2022 the town had a total ...

and has been a member of the

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since 2016. Formerly with the

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(''Demokratska stranka Srbije'', DSS), he is now a member of the

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(''Pokret socijalista'', PS). He is not to be confused with a different Miroslav Rodić from Bačka Palanka, a kayaking expert who has also been involved in local politics.

Private career

Rodić lives in Bačka Palanka. He has a background as a mechanical technician and holds a

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in economics.

Politician

Municipal politics

Rodić served a number of terms in the local assembly of Bačka Palanka and at one time was the municipality's deputy

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. He received the lead position on a shared

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of the DSS and New Serbia in the

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and entered the assembly when the list won three mandates. He was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the assembly in 2010, after a new municipal government was formed with the DSS and the far-right

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. He was given the second position on the DSS list in the 2012 local elections and was re-elected when the list won four mandates. At some time after the election, he left the DSS and joined the PS. The PS has a stronger presence in Bačka Palanka than in most other parts of Serbia, and it ran its own electoral list in the municipality in the 2020 local elections. Rodić received the (largely ceremonial) final position on the list. Winning election from this position was a mathematical impossibility, and indeed he was not returned when the list won ten out of forty-one mandates.

Provincial assembly

Rodić received the thirteenth position on the DSS's list in the

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. The list won four mandates, and he was not elected. The Movement of Socialists has a long-standing alliance with the

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at both the republic and provincial levels. Rodić was awarded the seventeenth position on the Progressive list in the 2016 provincial election as a PS candidate and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He was promoted to the ninth position on the Progressive-led ''

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'' list in the 2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on economy and the committee on youth and sports.Miroslav Rodić
Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 21 January 2021.

References

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