Dragana Potpara (; born 1977) is a politician and administrator in Serbia. She served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020 and is now a secretary of state in Serbia's ministry of public administration and local self-government. Potpara is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career Potpara attained the title of master economist from a private university in Novi Sad. She has directed an environmental protection fund and was head of the municipal department of social activities in Kula, Vojvodina, where she resides.DRŽAVNI SEKRETAR – Dragana Potpara, Ministry of Public Administration of Local Self-Government, accessed 18 April 2021.Z. Rajić, "Po navici obijaju šaltere", Novosti, 27 December 2016, accessed 18 April 2021.
Politician Potpara received the fifty-second position on the Progressive Party's electoral list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected 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. She was a member of the committee on budget and finance and the committee on education and science.DRŽAVNI SEKRETAR – Dragana Potpara, Ministry of Public Administration of Local Self-Government, accessed 18 April 2021. This site erroneously states that Potpara was a member of the assembly from 2012 to 2020. She did not seek re-election in 2020.
Secretary of State Potpara was appointed as a secretary of state in Serbia's department of public administration and local self-government in early 2021.DRŽAVNI SEKRETAR – Dragana Potpara, Ministry of Public Administration of Local Self-Government, accessed 18 April 2021.
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