Vlado Babić


Vlado Babić is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bunjevac community. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

Babić is a medical doctor educated at the University of Novi Sad and based in Sombor in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. He was a member of the National Council of the Bunjevac National Minority from 2002 to 2010, at a time when council members were chosen by indirect election. He received the eleventh position on an electoral list led by council president Suzana Kujundžić Ostojić in the 2014 national council election; the list won only four seats, and he was not returned for a new term.

Political career

Babić contested Sombor's first electoral division in the 2004 Vojvodina provincial election as a candidate of a local organization called the Convention for Sombor. He ran for the same seat in the 2008 provincial elections as a candidate of the Serbian Radical Party. He was not elected on either occasion. The Radical Party split following the 2008 elections, and Babić joined the breakaway Progressive Party.
Babić became a member of the Serbian parliament shortly after the 2014 parliamentary election, in which he received the 164th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list. The list won a landslide victory with 158 seats out of 250; Babić, who narrowly missed winning election outright, was able to take his seat on May 10, 2014, after members further up the list resigned to take government positions. He was promoted to the 118th position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2016 election and was declared elected when the alliance won a second consecutive landslide victory with 131 mandates.
In 2015, while serving as chair of the legislative committee on reproductive health, he chaired a panel discussion on the treatment of cervical cancer. He is currently a member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the health and family committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Belarus, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, and Tunisia.
Babić joined the parliamentary group of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians in early 2020. This allowed the VMSZ to maintain official parliamentary status after another delegate had left the group. Babić remains a member of the Progressive Party.
He was not a candidate for re-election in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.

Electoral record

Provincial ([Vojvodina])

Milan AleksićDemocratic Party of Serbia2,54418.428,85168.49
Nikola PejovićSerbian Radical Party2,05214.864,07231.51
Zlatko MiličevićDemocratic Party1,89013.68
Eržebet KarherDemocratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians1,65411.98
Aleksandar BošnjakG17 Plus1,46110.58
Vlado BabićConvention for Sombor8586.21
Zvonimir ŠtrbacCoalition: Together for Vojvodina–Nenad Čanak6874.97
Ladislav FeketeSocial Democracy5894.26
Ivica FrgićZajedno–Miodrag Sekulić, SPO–[People's Democratic Party (Serbia)|Democratic Party (Serbia)|NDS]5513.99
Petar Relić Saka For Truth and Justice, Without Deception–Petar Relić-Saka:
Democratic Party of Vojvodina–Party of Free Patriots–Christian Democratic Party of Serbia–Labour Party of Serbia		5353.87
Jozo IlićCivic Movement of Vojvodina5133.71
Zdenka OstermanStrength of Serbia Movement4773.45
Total valid votes13,81110012,923100
Invalid ballots625438
Total votes casts14,43635.9313,36133.25