Predrag Ginculj ( sr-cyr, Предраг Гинцуљ; born 1983) is a politician in

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. He has served in the

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since 2012 as a member of the

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Private career

Ginculj is a master economist. He is from the village of Sefkerin in

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Politician

Provincial politics

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

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, running as a party candidate for the Opovo constituency seat in the

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. He finished in third place. The Radical Party split later in the same year, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party under the leadership of

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and

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. Ginculj sided with the Progressives. He ran for the Opovo constituency seat again in the 2012 provincial election and this time won a narrow victory in the second round. The election was won by the Democratic Party and its allies, and Ginculj served in opposition for the next four years. At the time of his first election, he was the youngest member of the assembly. Vojvodina switched to a system of full

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prior to the 2016 provincial election. Ginculj was given the forty-eighth position on the Progressive Party's

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in that election and won a second term when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He subsequently received the sixty-second position on the party's ''

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'' list in the 2020 provincial election and was again elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates. Ginculj was chosen as chair of the assembly committee for budget and finance in October 2020. He is also a member of the committee on cooperation with the Serbian national assembly in the exercise of the competencies of the province.

Municipal politics

Ginculj became president of the Sefkerin village council at the age of twenty-three. He has served a number of terms in the Opovo municipal assembly. He was given the fourth position on the Progressive Party's list in the

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and received a mandate when the list won a majority victory with fourteen out of twenty-five seats. In the 2020 local elections, he received the third position and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with nineteen mandates.''Opštinski Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Opovo)'', 22 June 2020, p. 4.

Electoral record

Provincial (
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 ...
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References

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