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'''Vladan Vasić''' (; born 1971) is a politician in [[Serbia]]. He has served as the [[mayor]] of [[Pirot]] since 2003, leading the local Coalition for Pirot alliance. He also served a brief term in the [[National Assembly of Serbia]] in 2012.
==Early life and private career==
Vasić was born in 1971 in Pirot, in what was then the [[Socialist Republic of Serbia]] in the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]. He graduated from the [[University of Niš]] Faculty of Electronic Engineering in 1996, worked as a systems engineer for six years, and received his [[master's degree]] from the University of Niš in 2003.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2vmtfXd Vladan Vasić], ''Južne vesti'', 11 September 2017, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
==Political career==
Vasić elected to the Pirot municipal assembly in 2000 as a member of the [[Democratic Opposition of Serbia]], a broad coalition of parties opposed to [[Slobodan Milošević]]'s administration. He was first elected as mayor of Pirot in late 2003, defeating [[Socialist Party of Serbia]] candidate Dragan Todorović in the second round of a direct election.<ref>"Ruling coalition suffers local election defeat in two Serbian towns," ''British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European'', 17 November 2003 (Source: Radio B92 text web site, Belgrade, in English 1702 gmt 17 Nov 03). This source confirms that Todorović was the other candidate to appear in the run-off election.</ref> In 2005, he announced a partnership with the mayor of nearby [[Pernik]], [[Bulgaria]], for cross-border co-operation.<ref>"In Brief," ''Bulgarian News Agency'', 8 September 2005.</ref> The following year, he rejected the far-right [[Serbian Radical Party]]'s argument that Pirot should reject the donation of a city bus from the [[The Netherlands|Dutch]] city of [[The Hague]] while Serbian military and political figures were detained by the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia]] in the same city; Vasić noted that the municipal government and the tribunal were different entities.<ref>Vasić had previously contacted various embassies to request a city bus, saying that it was needed for transporting school children. See "Schoolbus niet welkom," ''Eindhovens Dagblad'', 1 March 2006.</ref> Vasić and his party were re-elected in [[2008 Serbian local elections|2008]], running in an alliance with the [[G17 Plus]] party.
In 2009–2010, Vasić took part in negotiations with G17 Plus and other regional party leaders that led to the creation of the [[United Regions of Serbia]] (URS) alliance.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2TVscrC "Vladan Vasić se pridružuje G17 plus"], ''Južne vesti'', 14 May 2010, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref><ref>"Serbian analysts consider prospects of economy minister's new party," ''British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European'', 20 May 2010 (Source: Politika website, Belgrade, in Serbian 17 May 10).</ref> This caused a serious split at the local level; some Coalition for Pirot members who opposed joining the URS sought to overturn Vasić's leadership and expel him from the movement. Vasić responded that the Coalition for Pirot was not a formal political organization and that the expulsion effort was therefore meaningless.<ref>[https://ift.tt/38GNpJZ Vladimir Veljković, "Vladan Vasić isključen iz Koalicije za Pirot"], ''Južne vesti'', 22 June 2010, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> At around the same time, Vasić brought the local committee of the Radical Party into his municipal governing alliance, following the departure of the [[Democratic Party (Serbia)|Democratic Party]]. This was a controversial decision; after the announcement, Serbian deputy prime minister [[Božidar Đelić]] refused to visit Pirot during a tour of south Serbia.<ref>[https://ift.tt/38Cy4tF Vladimir Veljković, "Đelić odbio da poseti Pirot"], ''''Južne vesti'', 18 August 2010, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
Vasić became involved in a controversy with a local newspaper in 2011, after he accused a journalist of interfering with the business of the municipal assembly by making an unauthorized recording on a handheld device. The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia criticized Vasić in this matter. (Meetings of the assembly are open to the public and are broadcast on public media.)<ref>[https://ift.tt/2GjGNEX N.T., "Spor između Vasića i Pirotskih"], ''Južne vesti'', 26 December 2011, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
In 2012, Vasić signed a [[memorandum of understanding]] for the company [[Michelin]] to expand its [[Tigar Tyres]] plant in the municipality.<ref>"Michelin and its subsidiary Tigar Tyres sign a memorandum of understanding with Serbian authorities and the City of Pirot," ''Thompson Reuters ONE'', 2 April 2012.</ref>
Vasić received the fifth position on the URS [[electoral list]] in the [[2012 Serbian parliamentary election]] as a G17 Plus candidate and was duly elected to the National Assembly when the list won sixteen mandates.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2GXF0En Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. маj 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ)] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.</ref> He was also selected for a third term mayor after his party's victory in [[2012 Serbian local elections|the 2012 local elections]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2NZfjsu Vladimir Veljković, "Vasić i treći put predsednik opštine"], ''Južne vesti'', 1 June 2012, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> He could not hold a [[dual mandate]] as mayor and a member of the assembly, and he resigned his parliamentary seat on 30 August 2012, saying that he did not agree with the law in this instance and did not believe he was in a [[conflict of interest]] situation.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2tRLPWC Predrag Blagojević, "Vasić pod istragom zbog duplih funkcija"], ''Južne vesti'', 13 August 2012, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2GrDUSx Predrag Blagojević, "Vasić podneo ostavku u Skupštini Srbije"], ''Južne vesti'', 8 August 2012, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/376cQnK 31 May 2012 legislature], National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 January 2020.</ref>
The various groups in the URS merged into a united political party in 2013. Vasić received the eighth position on its list for the [[2014 Serbian parliamentary election|2014 parliamentary election]], but the list did not cross the [[electoral threshold]] to representation in the assembly and subsequently dissolved.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HyWqIy Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ)] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 July 2017.</ref>
Vasić led the Coalition for Pirot to another victory in the [[2016 Serbian local elections]], narrowly defeating the list of the [[Serbian Progressive Party]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/38DQhHg B.G., "https://ift.tt/38DQhHg], ''Južne vesti'', 25 March 2016, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> This was the first local election to take place in Pirot after the municipality was upgraded to a city. Vasić was once again confirmed as mayor after the election.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2RozTVf M. Mitić, "Vasić prvi gradonačelnik Pirota, odbornici SNS napustili sednicu"], ''Južne vesti'', 27 May 2016, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> In 2018, a profile piece in the newspaper ''[[Danas (newspaper)|Danas]]'' reviewed his first fifteen years in office.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2uzejEw Zoran Panić, "Vladan Vasić obeležio 15 godina otkako je na čelu Pirota"], ''Danas'', 4 December 2018, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Pirot]]
[[Category:Mayors of places in Serbia]]
[[Category:Members of the National Assembly of Serbia]]
[[Category:G17 Plus politicians]]
[[Category:United Regions of Serbia politicians]]
==Early life and private career==
Vasić was born in 1971 in Pirot, in what was then the [[Socialist Republic of Serbia]] in the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]. He graduated from the [[University of Niš]] Faculty of Electronic Engineering in 1996, worked as a systems engineer for six years, and received his [[master's degree]] from the University of Niš in 2003.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2vmtfXd Vladan Vasić], ''Južne vesti'', 11 September 2017, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
==Political career==
Vasić elected to the Pirot municipal assembly in 2000 as a member of the [[Democratic Opposition of Serbia]], a broad coalition of parties opposed to [[Slobodan Milošević]]'s administration. He was first elected as mayor of Pirot in late 2003, defeating [[Socialist Party of Serbia]] candidate Dragan Todorović in the second round of a direct election.<ref>"Ruling coalition suffers local election defeat in two Serbian towns," ''British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European'', 17 November 2003 (Source: Radio B92 text web site, Belgrade, in English 1702 gmt 17 Nov 03). This source confirms that Todorović was the other candidate to appear in the run-off election.</ref> In 2005, he announced a partnership with the mayor of nearby [[Pernik]], [[Bulgaria]], for cross-border co-operation.<ref>"In Brief," ''Bulgarian News Agency'', 8 September 2005.</ref> The following year, he rejected the far-right [[Serbian Radical Party]]'s argument that Pirot should reject the donation of a city bus from the [[The Netherlands|Dutch]] city of [[The Hague]] while Serbian military and political figures were detained by the [[International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia]] in the same city; Vasić noted that the municipal government and the tribunal were different entities.<ref>Vasić had previously contacted various embassies to request a city bus, saying that it was needed for transporting school children. See "Schoolbus niet welkom," ''Eindhovens Dagblad'', 1 March 2006.</ref> Vasić and his party were re-elected in [[2008 Serbian local elections|2008]], running in an alliance with the [[G17 Plus]] party.
In 2009–2010, Vasić took part in negotiations with G17 Plus and other regional party leaders that led to the creation of the [[United Regions of Serbia]] (URS) alliance.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2TVscrC "Vladan Vasić se pridružuje G17 plus"], ''Južne vesti'', 14 May 2010, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref><ref>"Serbian analysts consider prospects of economy minister's new party," ''British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European'', 20 May 2010 (Source: Politika website, Belgrade, in Serbian 17 May 10).</ref> This caused a serious split at the local level; some Coalition for Pirot members who opposed joining the URS sought to overturn Vasić's leadership and expel him from the movement. Vasić responded that the Coalition for Pirot was not a formal political organization and that the expulsion effort was therefore meaningless.<ref>[https://ift.tt/38GNpJZ Vladimir Veljković, "Vladan Vasić isključen iz Koalicije za Pirot"], ''Južne vesti'', 22 June 2010, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> At around the same time, Vasić brought the local committee of the Radical Party into his municipal governing alliance, following the departure of the [[Democratic Party (Serbia)|Democratic Party]]. This was a controversial decision; after the announcement, Serbian deputy prime minister [[Božidar Đelić]] refused to visit Pirot during a tour of south Serbia.<ref>[https://ift.tt/38Cy4tF Vladimir Veljković, "Đelić odbio da poseti Pirot"], ''''Južne vesti'', 18 August 2010, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
Vasić became involved in a controversy with a local newspaper in 2011, after he accused a journalist of interfering with the business of the municipal assembly by making an unauthorized recording on a handheld device. The Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia criticized Vasić in this matter. (Meetings of the assembly are open to the public and are broadcast on public media.)<ref>[https://ift.tt/2GjGNEX N.T., "Spor između Vasića i Pirotskih"], ''Južne vesti'', 26 December 2011, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
In 2012, Vasić signed a [[memorandum of understanding]] for the company [[Michelin]] to expand its [[Tigar Tyres]] plant in the municipality.<ref>"Michelin and its subsidiary Tigar Tyres sign a memorandum of understanding with Serbian authorities and the City of Pirot," ''Thompson Reuters ONE'', 2 April 2012.</ref>
Vasić received the fifth position on the URS [[electoral list]] in the [[2012 Serbian parliamentary election]] as a G17 Plus candidate and was duly elected to the National Assembly when the list won sixteen mandates.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2GXF0En Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. маj 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ)] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 5 April 2017.</ref> He was also selected for a third term mayor after his party's victory in [[2012 Serbian local elections|the 2012 local elections]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2NZfjsu Vladimir Veljković, "Vasić i treći put predsednik opštine"], ''Južne vesti'', 1 June 2012, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> He could not hold a [[dual mandate]] as mayor and a member of the assembly, and he resigned his parliamentary seat on 30 August 2012, saying that he did not agree with the law in this instance and did not believe he was in a [[conflict of interest]] situation.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2tRLPWC Predrag Blagojević, "Vasić pod istragom zbog duplih funkcija"], ''Južne vesti'', 13 August 2012, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2GrDUSx Predrag Blagojević, "Vasić podneo ostavku u Skupštini Srbije"], ''Južne vesti'', 8 August 2012, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/376cQnK 31 May 2012 legislature], National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 January 2020.</ref>
The various groups in the URS merged into a united political party in 2013. Vasić received the eighth position on its list for the [[2014 Serbian parliamentary election|2014 parliamentary election]], but the list did not cross the [[electoral threshold]] to representation in the assembly and subsequently dissolved.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HyWqIy Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ)] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 July 2017.</ref>
Vasić led the Coalition for Pirot to another victory in the [[2016 Serbian local elections]], narrowly defeating the list of the [[Serbian Progressive Party]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/38DQhHg B.G., "https://ift.tt/38DQhHg], ''Južne vesti'', 25 March 2016, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> This was the first local election to take place in Pirot after the municipality was upgraded to a city. Vasić was once again confirmed as mayor after the election.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2RozTVf M. Mitić, "Vasić prvi gradonačelnik Pirota, odbornici SNS napustili sednicu"], ''Južne vesti'', 27 May 2016, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref> In 2018, a profile piece in the newspaper ''[[Danas (newspaper)|Danas]]'' reviewed his first fifteen years in office.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2uzejEw Zoran Panić, "Vladan Vasić obeležio 15 godina otkako je na čelu Pirota"], ''Danas'', 4 December 2018, accessed 24 January 2020.</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Pirot]]
[[Category:Mayors of places in Serbia]]
[[Category:Members of the National Assembly of Serbia]]
[[Category:G17 Plus politicians]]
[[Category:United Regions of Serbia politicians]]
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