Miroslav Rodić (; born 8 March 1968) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the municipal government of Bačka Palanka and has been a member of the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2016. Formerly with the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS), he is now a member of the Movement of Socialists (Pokret socijalista, PS).
He is not to be confused with a different Miroslav Rodić from Bačka Palanka, a kayaking expert who has also been involved in local politics.
Private career Rodić lives in Bačka Palanka. He has a background as a mechanical technicianSlužbeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 8 (30 April 2008), p. 4. and holds a bachelor's degree in economics.Miroslav Rodić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 21 January 2021.
Politician Municipal politics Rodić served a number of terms in the local assembly of Bačka Palanka and at one time was the municipality's deputy mayor.Slobodan Mirić, "DSS vratila radikale na vlast", Blic, 16 April 2010, accessed 20 January 2021. He received the lead position on a shared electoral list of the DSS and New Serbia in the 2008 Serbian local electionsSlužbeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 8 (30 April 2008), p. 4. and entered the assembly when the list won three mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 11 (28 May 2008), p. 7.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 43 Number 12 (5 June 2008), p. 2. He was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the assembly in 2010, after a new municipal government was formed with the DSS and the far-right Serbian Radical Party."Драган Бозало поново председник Општине Бачка Паланка", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 15 April 2010, accessed 20 January 2021.
He was given the second position on the DSS list in the 2012 local electionsSlužbeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 47 Number 11 (24 April 2012), p. 233. and was re-elected when the list won four mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 47 Number 12 (8 May 2012), p. 274. At some time after the election, he left the DSS and joined the PS.
The PS has a stronger presence in Bačka Palanka than in most other parts of Serbia, and it ran its own electoral list in the municipality in the 2020 local elections. Rodić received the (largely ceremonial) final position on the list.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 56 Number 8 (10 June 2020), p. 211. Winning election from this position was a mathematical impossibility, and indeed he was not returned when the list won ten out of forty-one mandates.Službeni List (Opštine Bačka Palanka), Volume 56 Number 13 (22 June 2020), p. 670.
Provincial assembly Rodić received the thirteenth position on the DSS's list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election.Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 6 - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ-ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА - кандидати за посланике), Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. The list won four mandates, and he was not elected.
The Movement of Socialists has a long-standing alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party at both the republic and provincial levels. Rodić was awarded the seventeenth position on the Progressive list in the 2016 provincial election as a PS candidateИзборне 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. and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.
He was promoted to the ninth position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 provincial electionИзборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021. and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six mandates. He is now a member of the assembly committee on economy and the committee on youth and sports.Miroslav Rodić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 21 January 2021.
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