Savo Dobranić


Savo Dobranić is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2004 to 2012 and was the mayor of Kikinda from 2012 to 2013, as a member of the Democratic Party.

Early life and career

Dobranić was born in the village of Rusko Selo in the Kikinda municipality, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law. Dobranić was the director of the Centre for Social Work in Kikinda from 1997 to 2001, the head of Kikinda's secretariat for general administration and budget from 2001 to 2004, and the director of the holding company Dnevnik from 2006 to 2010.

Politician

Dobranić was first elected to the Assembly of Vojvodina in the 2004 provincial election, winning Kikinda's second constituency seat in the second round of voting. The Democratic Party formed a coalition government in the province after the election, and he served as part of its parliamentary majority. He also led the DS electoral list for Kikinda in the concurrent 2004 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won six mandates. The Serbian Radical Party won the election at the local level, and the DS served in opposition.
He was re-elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2008 provincial election, in which the DS and its allies won an outright majority, and he again served as a supporter of the administration for the next four years. In 2009, he led a successful campaign to remove fellow DS member Jagoda Tolicki from office as mayor of Kikinda.
Dobranić was somewhat unexpectedly defeated in the first round of voting in the 2012 provincial election, losing much of his support on the centre-left to the eventual winner, Miloš Šibul of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. Despite losing his provincial seat, he again led the DS's local list for Kikinda in the concurrent 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won eleven mandates. The elections did not produce a clear winner, but the DS was able to form a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia, and Dobranić was chosen as the municipality's mayor. In February 2013, he signed an agreement for the construction of a water treatment plant in the municipality.
His term in office was ultimately brief. There was a shift in the municipality's political forces in September 2013, during which time the SPS withdrew its support from the DS administration. Dobranić was succeeded in office by Pavle Markov of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Dobranić later appeared in the 102nd position on the Democratic Party's list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won only nineteen mandates, and he was not returned.

Electoral record

Provincial ([Vojvodina])

Savo Dobranić For a European Vojvodina: Democratic Party–G17 Plus, Boris Tadić 5,17728.776,72258.11
Branislav Blažić Serbian Radical Party7,05439.204,84641.89
Đura Duja ŠibulTogether for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak1,7509.72
Gordana AleksićHungarian Coalition–István Pásztor1,4908.28
Siniša Odadžin[Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia)|Democratic Party (Serbia)|Liberal Democratic Party]9915.51
Dragan PakaškiSocialist Party of Serbia –Party of United Pensioners of Serbia 9815.45
Miodrag ČeleketićDemocratic Party of Serbia–New Serbia–Vojislav Koštunica5543.08
Total valid votes17,99710011,568100
Invalid ballots500217
Total votes casts18,49764.3011,78540.97

Savo DobranićDemocratic Party2,48520.096,05051.02
Blagoje KrajinovićSerbian Radical Party3,13425.335,80948.98
Paja Francuski Coalition: Together for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak 1,71813.89
Prim. Dr. Dragan PakaškiSocialist Party of Serbia1,60012.93
Dr. Mirko StojisavljevićStrength of Serbia Movement8907.19
Dr. Milica SudarovDemocratic Party of Serbia8206.63
Dr. Đura RadinG17 Plus7896.38
Slavica TatomirCoalition: DA–SDP–Dr. Nebojša Čović4933.99
Milan StankovićCoalition for Kikinda 4423.57
Total valid votes12,37110011,859100
Invalid ballots690436
Total votes casts13,06144.5512,29541.94