Bojan Torbica

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Bojan Torbica (

National Assembly of Serbia
since 2016.

Early life and career

Torbica was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Novi Sad. Torbica moved to Temerin in 2002 to work as director of Radio Temerin and subsequently became the director of the Lukijan Mušicki cultural centre.[2] He now lives in Bački Jarak in Temerin.[3]

Politician

Municipal politics

The Movement of Socialists has been aligned with the Serbian Progressive Party since 2010, and the parties ran a combined electoral list for the Temerin municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections.[4] Torbica received the fourth position on the list[5] and was elected when the list won five mandates.[6] He served as a member of the municipal assembly until January 2013, when he was appointed as one of Novi Sad's four deputy mayors, with responsibility for the economy. He remained in the latter office until his election to parliament in 2016.[7][8]

He received the ninth position on the Progressive-led list for Temerin in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list won eighteen mandates.[9] He is now the leader of the PS group in the municipal assembly.[10]

Provincial politics

Torbica has been the leader of the Vojvodina provincial branch of Movement of Socialists.[11]

Parliamentarian

The Movement of Socialists contested the

United States of America, and Venezuela.[14]

He was physically attacked by unknown assailants in

Kosovska Mitrovica in January 2017. He later said that the attack was politically motivated and that he had been targeted for his support of Prime Minister Vučić's administration.[15]

Torbica again received the forty-seventh position on the Progressive Party's coalition list in the

Sovereign Order of Malta, Spain, the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Pokret socijalista posle Vulinove ostavke vodi Bojan Torbica - Politika - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  2. ^ "Torbica novi pomoćnik gradonačelnika", www.021.rs, 16 January 2013, accessed 11 July 2018.
  3. ^ BOJAN TORBICA, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Two Serbian opposition parties to form pre-election coalition," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 1 November 2010 (Source: Vecernje novosti website, Belgrade, in Serbian 29 Oct 10).
  5. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 45 Number 2 (25 April 2012), p. 15.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 45 Number 6 (24 July 2012), p. 2.
  7. ^ "Torbica novi pomoćnik gradonačelnika", www.021.rs, 16 January 2013, accessed 11 July 2018.
  8. ^ BOJAN TORBICA, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 July 2018.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Temerin), Volume 53 Number 13 (21 August 2020), p. 15.
  10. ^ Локална Самоуправа, Municipal of Temerin, accessed 24 December 2020.
  11. ^ "PS: Neka Pajtić pazi šta želi, moglo bi mu se ispuniti", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 24 April 2015, accessed 11 July 2018.
  12. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  13. ^ Socialists’ Movement - People’s Peasant Party - United Peasant Party Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2018.
  14. ^ BOJAN TORBICA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 11 July 2018.
  15. ^ "Torbica: Napali su me zbog politike Aleksandra Vučića", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 27 January 2017, accessed 11 July 2018.
  16. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  17. ^ BOJAN TORBICA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 24 December 2020.