Tihomir Stojaković ( sr-Cyrl, Тихомир Стојаковић; born 25 July 1985) is a Serbian politician. He served in 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� ...

from 2016 to 2020 and has been the mayor of Irig since August 2020. Stojaković is a member of the

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(SNS).

Early life and career

Stojaković was born in Novi Grad, in what was then the

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. He attended primary and secondary school in Irig and graduated from the

University of Novi Sad The University of Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Универзитет у Новом Саду, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; ) is a public university in Novi Sad, Serbia. Alongside nationally prestigious University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad is ...

's Faculty of Sport and Physical Education. He taught at the secondary school ''Borislav Mihajlović Mihiz'' from 2009 to 2013 and was director of the same institution from 2013 to 2016.

Politician

Stojaković served on Irig's municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) from 2012 to 2015 with responsibility for sports and youth. He joined the Serbian Progressive Party in 2014. He appeared in the sixty-sixth position on the SNS's

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in the

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and narrowly missed direct election when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 seats. He received a mandate on 18 July 2016 as the replacement for another party delegate and served for the next four years as a government supporter. In the assembly, he was a member of the committee on education and science and the committee on youth and sports. He did not seek re-election in 2020. Stojaković led the SNS list for Irig in the

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and was elected when the list won a majority victory with fifteen out of nineteen seats. He was chosen as mayor of the municipality on 24 August 2020."Tihomir Stojaković predsednik Opštine Irig"
''Sremske Novine'', 24 August 2020, accessed 6 August 2023.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stojakovic, Tihomir 1985 births Living people Mayors of places in Serbia Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina People from Irig, Serbia Serbian Progressive Party politicians