Svetozar Sečen () is a Serbian medical doctor and former politician. He was a member of the Vojvodina provincial assembly from 1993 to 1997. During his time as an elected official, he was a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO).
Private career Sečen is a medical doctor with specialization in general surgery. He worked at the Clinical Center of Vojvodina and became a full professor at the University of Novi Sad in 2011.HRH CROWN PRINCESS KATHERINE AT THE OPENING OF NEW PRINTING UNIT OF STYLOS GROUP IN NOVI SAD, 2009, accessed 13 July 2025.ИЗВЕШТАЈ О ОЦЕНИ ДОКТОРСКЕ ДИСЕРТАЦИЈЕ Др мр сци. мед. Дејана З. Јовановића, University of Novi Sad, 2016, accessed 13 July 2025.
In 2007, Sečen was appointed by the Vojvodina government to a four-year term on the board of directors of the Clinical Center of Vojvodina.Službeni List (Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine), Volume 63 Number 21 (13 December 2007), p. 1008.
Politician In 1992, the Serbian Renewal Movement became the dominant party in a broader political coalition called the Democratic Movement of Serbia (DEPOS). DEPOS, in turn, mostly contested the December 1992 Vojvodina provincial election in an alliance with the Democratic Party (DS) and the Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina (RDSV). Sečen ran as the alliance's candidate in Novi Sad's eighth division and was elected, taking his seat when the assembly convened in early 1993.Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине 31. маја и 14. јуна 1992. године, , Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 March 2025. The governing Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) won a plurality victory with fifty seats out of 120, while the democratic opposition parties won a combined total of forty seats. Although its hold on power was never entirely secure, the SPS remained in office of the full term of the assembly,Zoran B. Radonjić, "ПОЛИТИЧКЕ КОАЛИЦИЈЕ У СРБИЈИ ОД 1990. ДО 2009. ГОДИНЕ" [doctoral thesis], University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences, 2015, p. 138. and Sečen served as an opposition delegate.
In November 1994, Sečen delivered a lecture entitled "Medical Chambers" at the SPO's offices in Novi Sad.Borba, 14 November 1994, p. 25.
The DEPOS coalition dissolved in 1994, and the SPO joined a new coalition called Zajedno (Together) in 1996. Sečen ran for re-election to the Vojvodina assembly in Novi Sad's seventh division as a Zajedno candidate and was defeated in the second round of voting.Magyar Szó, 19 November 1996, p. 7. His term ended when the new assembly met in early 1997.
Sečen also appeared in the fourth position (out of four) on the Zajedno coalition's electoral list in the Novi Sad division for the Yugoslavian parliament's Chamber of Citizens in the 1996 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, which took place concurrently with the provincial vote.Srpska Reč, 17 October 1996, p. 23. The list won one seat in the division, which was automatically assigned to its lead candidate, Predrag Filipov of the Democratic Party.ИЗБОРИ '96: ВЕЋЕ ГРАЂАНА САВЕЗНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Department of Statistics (1996), p. 43.
Electoral record Provincial (Vojvodina)
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