Predrag Vuković
Predrag Vuković is a politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Šid from 2016 to 2020 and has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2020. Vuković is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and private career
Vuković was born in Vukovar, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics and has been a company director in both the private and public sectors in Šid.Politician
Municipal politics
Vuković appeared in the lead position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the 2016 local election in Šid. The list won a majority victory with twenty-three out of thirty-nine seats, and he was chosen as mayor when the assembly convened. In 2017, he oversaw the removal of migrant refugees from a centre in the town's downtown core, stating that there had been confrontations between refugees at that particular centre and the local population. He dismissed suggestions that his actions were motivated by xenophobia and noted that the municipality housed two other refugee centres that did not have the same issues.He did not seek re-election at the local level in 2020.