Predrag Matejin (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Матејин; 13 April 1963) is a politician in Serbia. He was a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2020, serving as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career edit

Matejin is a doctor specializing in plastic surgery. He lives in Zrenjanin.[1]

Politician edit

Provincial politics edit

Matejin was first elected to the Vojvodina assembly in the 2012 provincial election, winning Zrenjanin's first constituency seat. This election was won by the Democratic Party and its allies, and the Progressives served in opposition. Matejin was the leader of the Progressive Party's assembly group and was a member of the committee on health, social policy, and labour.[2]

Vojvodina switched to a system of full proportional representation for the 2016 provincial election. Matejin was awarded the ninth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list[3] and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. There were rumours that he would be appointed to a position in the provincial executive, but this did not occur.[4] He chaired the assembly's health committee and was not a candidate for re-election in 2020.

Municipal politics edit

Matejin received the (largely ceremonial) final position on the Progressive Party's list for the Zrenjanin city assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections.[5] Election from this position was a mathematical impossibility, and indeed he was not elected when the list won twenty-four out of sixty-seven mandates.[6]

He received the second position on the Progressive list in the 2016 local elections[7] and was elected to the city assembly when the list won a majority victory with thirty-five mandates.[8] He did not seek re-election in 2020.

Electoral record edit

Provincial (Vojvodina) edit

2012 Vojvodina assembly election
Zrenjanin I (constituency seat) - First and Second Rounds
[9]
Predrag Matejin Let's Get Vojvodina Moving (Affiliation: Serbian Progressive Party) 6,111 30.16 9,756 55.51
Vladimir Vasiljev League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina 2,963 14.62 7,819 44.49
Milan Zvekić (incumbent) Choice for a Better Vojvodina (Affiliation: Democratic Party) 2,418 11.93
Dragan Basta Socialist Party of SerbiaParty of United Pensioners of SerbiaUnited SerbiaSocial Democratic Party of Serbia 2,415 11.92
Danilo Babić Serbian Radical Party 1,396 6.89
Zdravko Deurić Citizens' Group: Movement for Equality – I Love Zrenjanin 1,353 6.68
Dragan Bosić Democratic Party of Serbia 1,346 6.64
Nikola Đurić U-Turn 831 4.10
Aleksandar Arvaji Coalition: For the Survival of Zrenjanin – United Regions of Serbia – Dušan Juvanin 641 3.16
Arpad Seke Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians 529 2.61
Ištvan Hanđa Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians 258 1.27
Total valid votes 20,261 100 17,575 100

References edit

  1. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  2. ^ Предраг Матејин Archived 2016-04-12 at the Wayback Machine, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 25 January 2021.
  3. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  4. ^ Snežana Kovačević, "Vučić, a ne Čanak odlučuje ko će biti pokrajinski premijer", Politika, 13 June 2016, accessed 25 January 2021.
  5. ^ Službeni List (Grada Zrenjanina), Volume 21 Number 8 (21 April 2012), p. 11.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Grada Zrenjanina), Volume 21 Number 8 (21 April 2012), p. 11.
  7. ^ Službeni List (Grada Zrenjanina), Volume 25 Number 10 (11 April 2016), p. 1.
  8. ^ Službeni List (Grada Zrenjanina), Volume 25 Number 14 (25 April 2016), p. 1.
  9. ^ Source: Резултати избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине по већинском изборном систему (2012) (15 Зрењанин I), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 August 2017.