Dragoljub Zindović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Зиндовић; born 25 September 1965) is a politician in Serbia. He served as mayor of Prijepolje for two terms, was commissioner of the Zlatibor District from 2013 to 2014, and was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2016. During his time in office, Zindović was a member Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).
Zindović was arrested on charges of corruption in 2020.
Private career edit
Zindović was raised in Prijepolje, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics and became a teacher. From 1998 to 2009, he worked at the Prijepolje School of Economics. He was also an assistant teaching associate at the Čačak Technical High School from 2006 to 2009.[1]
Politician edit
First term as mayor (2009–12) edit
Zindović first became mayor of Prijepolje under somewhat unusual circumstances. The 2008 Serbian local elections in May did not produce a clear winner in the municipality, and, as the municipality did not constitute a government in the allotted time, the vote was repeated in November. The Serbian Progressive Party was established in September 2008, and the repeat vote in Prijepolje was the first election that it contested; the party won ten seats out of sixty-one and took part in a coalition government with the Sandžak Democratic Party (Sandžačka demokratska partija, SDP) and an alliance led by the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS). Zindović, as the local Progressive leader, was appointed as mayor.[2][3] He formally took office in February 2009; at the time, he was the only Progressive Party mayor in Serbia.[4][5][6]
Zindović led the Progressive Party's list for Prijepolje in the 2012 local elections and was re-elected to the local assembly when the list once again won ten mandates.[7][8] A new governing coalition was formed without the SNS, and Zindović stood down as mayor.[9] He also received the 133rd position on the SNS's list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election; the list won seventy-three seats, and he was not elected.[10]
Commissioner and parliamentarian (2012–16) edit
Zindović was appointed as commissioner of the Zlatibor District in January 2013.[11]
He was given the seventy-first position on the SNS's list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 158 out of 250 seats.[12] By virtue of becoming an elected member of parliament, he was required to resign as commissioner. In parliament, he was a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee on Kosovo and Metohija; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Israel, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Spain, the United States of America.[13]
He was not a candidate in the 2016 parliamentary election.
Second term as mayor (2016–20) edit
Zindović once again led the Progressive Party's list in Prijepolje in the 2016 local elections and was elected when the list won fourteen seats.[14][15] A new local coalition government was formed after the election, and Zindović was once again chosen as mayor.[16][17] He served a full term and was not a candidate for re-election in 2020.
2020 arrest edit
In November 2020, Zindović was arrested on suspicion of corruption. Among other things, he was accused of corruption in issuing halal certificates and in the oversight of sports. His arrest was announced by Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić.[18]
References edit
- ^ Председник општине, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-02-16. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Municipality of Prijepolje, 16 February 2020, accessed 7 May 2022. - ^ Dragan Todorović, "Od očajnog ka gorem", Vreme, 27 November 2008, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ B. Pejović, "Naprednjaci, demokrate i SDP zajedno na vlasti u Prijepolju", Politika, 29 December 2008, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Dogovor o vlasti u Prijepolju", B92, 15 January 2009, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ D. Gagričić, "Parafi ibrisali sporove", Novosti, 23 September 2009, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ Izet Kriještorac, "SDP prepustila SNS mesto predsednika opštine", Danas, 20 February 2009, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ ПРОГЛАШЕНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ [Izbori 2012], p. 8.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Prijepolje), Volume 12 Number 4 (30 April 2012), p. 5.
- ^ "Emir Hašimbegović iz SDPS predsednik opštine Prijepolje", Radio Sto Plus, 5 July 2012, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 ПОКРЕНИМО СРБИЈУ - ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ (Српска напредна странка, Нова Србија, Асоцијација малих и средњих предузећа и предузетника Србије, Коалиција удружења избјеглица у Републици Србији, Покрет снага Србије - БК, Народна сељачка странка, Бошњачка народна странка, Демократска партија Македонаца, Ромска партија, Покрет влашког уједињења, Покрет социјалиста, Покрет привредни препород Србије)), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 August 2020.
- ^ "Dragoljub Zindović načelnik Zlatiborskog okruga", Danas, 31 January 2013, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 August 2020.
- ^ DRAGOLjUB ZINDOVIC, Archived 2014-12-31 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Prijepolje), Volume 15 Number 6 (13 April 2016), p. 8.
- ^ Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Prijepolje), Volume 15 Number 9 (5 May 2016), pp. 1-4.
- ^ Ž. Dulanović, "Naprednjak Dragoljub Zindović posle četiri godine ponovo na čelu opštine Prijepolje", Blic, 14 June 2016, accessed 5 May 2022.
- ^ "Za predsednika opštine Prijepolje izabran Dragoljub Zindović", Novosti, 13 June 2016, accessed 7 May 2022.
- ^ "JEDAN BIO POSLANIK, DRUGI INOVATOR: Ovo su naprednjaci Zindović i Nedeljković koji su JUTROS UHAPŠENI", Mondo, 12 November 2020, accessed 7 May 2022.