Predrag Ginculj (; born 1983) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career Ginculj is a master economist.Predrag Ginculj, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 9 April 2021. He is from the village of Sefkerin in Opovo.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.
Politician Provincial politics Ginculj entered political life as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, running as a party candidate for the Opovo constituency seat in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election. He finished in third place. The Radical Party split later in the same year, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Ginculj sided with the Progressives."Predrag Ginculj, poslanik Skupštine AP Vojvodine i odbornik SO Opovo NIŠTA VIŠE NIJE ISTO KAO ŠTO JE BILO", Start 013, 4 November 2019, accessed 9 April 2021.
He ran for the Opovo constituency seat again in the 2012 provincial election and this time won a narrow victory in the second round. The election was won by the Democratic Party and its allies, and Ginculj served in opposition for the next four years. At the time of his first election, he was the youngest member of the assembly."Predrag Ginculj, poslanik Skupštine AP Vojvodine i odbornik SO Opovo NIŠTA VIŠE NIJE ISTO KAO ŠTO JE BILO", Start 013, 4 November 2019, accessed 9 April 2021.
Vojvodina switched to a system of full proportional representation prior to the 2016 provincial election. Ginculj was given the forty-eighth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list in that election and won a second term when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.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. He subsequently received the sixty-second position on the party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 provincial election and was again elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates.Изборне 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.
Ginculj was chosen as chair of the assembly committee for budget and finance in October 2020."Čanak jedini poslanik opozicije koji je predsednik skupštinskog odbora, pogledajte ko su ostali", 021.rs, 4 November 2020, accessed 9 April 2021. He is also a member of the committee on cooperation with the Serbian national assembly in the exercise of the competencies of the province.Predrag Ginculj, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 9 April 2021.
Municipal politics Ginculj became president of the Sefkerin village council at the age of twenty-three."Predrag Ginculj, poslanik Skupštine AP Vojvodine i odbornik SO Opovo NIŠTA VIŠE NIJE ISTO KAO ŠTO JE BILO", Start 013, 4 November 2019, accessed 9 April 2021.
He has served a number of terms in the Opovo municipal assembly. He was given the fourth position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2016 Serbian local elections and received a mandate when the list won a majority victory with fourteen out of twenty-five seats.РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОР ОДБОРНИКА СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ ОПОВО and З А П И С Н И К О РАДУ ОПШТИНСКЕ ИЗБОРНЕ КОМИСИЈЕ НА УТВРЂИВАЊУ КОНАЧНИХ РЕЗУЛТАТА СА ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ ОПОВО ОДРЖАНИХ 24. АПРИЛА 2016. И ПОНОВЉЕНИХ ИЗБОРА ОДРЖАНИХ 02.05.2016. ГОДИНЕ, Documenti, Municipality of Opovo (old site), accessed 9 April 2021. In the 2020 local elections, he received the third position and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with nineteen mandates.Opštinski Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Opovo), 9 June 2020, p. 3.Opštinski Službeni Glasnik (Opštine Opovo), 22 June 2020, p. 4.
Electoral record Provincial (Vojvodina) + 2012 Vojvodina assembly electionOpovo (constituency seat) - First and Second RoundsSource: Резултати избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине по већинском изборном систему (2012) (37 Опово), Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 August 2017. Predrag Ginculj Let's Get Vojvodina Moving (Affiliation: Serbian Progressive Party) 1,062 21.38 2,005 50.39 Jovan Rackov Choice for a Better Vojvodina 1,524 30.68 1,974 49.61 Milan Bunčić Socialist Party of Serbia–Party of United Pensioners of Serbia–United Serbia–Social Democratic Party of Serbia 711 14.31 Danica Mijailović Citizens' Group 554 11.15 Veljko Josić League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina 517 10.41 Jelena Nedeljkov Democratic Party of Serbia 372 7.49 Dragan Milakov Serbian Radical Party 228 4.59 Total valid votes 4,968 100 3,979 100
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