Mirsad Hodžić () is a Serbian politician from the country's Bosniak community. He served in the Serbian national assembly from 2020 to 2022 as a member of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (SDA).

Private career Hodžić is from in Sjenica in the Sandžak region of Serbia. He is a textile engineer and has served as director of the Sjenica Institute for Sports and Recreation.Službeni Glasnik (Općinski Sjenica), Volume 21 Number 39 (23 October 2020), p. 176.MIRSAD HODŽIĆ (МИРСАД ХОЏИЋ), , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 August 2023.

Politician Hodžić is a longtime SDA activist. In 2002, he led a protest in Sjenica against police chief Milan Nedić, whom he accused of having led an organized terror campaign against Bosniaks in previous years. He called for a multi-ethnic police force in the Sandžak region, noting the low representation of Bosniaks in the existing force."Muslim party protests over 'state terror' against Sandzak Bosniaks," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European – Political, 8 August 2002 (Source: Radio Novi Pazar in Serbo-Croat 1400 gmt 8 Aug 02).

He appeared in the eighteenth position on the SDA-led List for Sandžak in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (10 Коалиција Листа за Санџак др Сулејман Угљанин), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The list won two seats in the national assembly, and he was not chosen for a mandate.14 February 2007 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 August 2023. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian parliamentary elections were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. Hodžić could have been given a seat despite his low position on the list, though ultimately he was not.)Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, , accessed 7 April 2024. He was later given the seventeenth position on the successor Bosniak List for a European Sandžak in the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election and again did not receive a mandate when the list won two seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 БОШЊАЧКА ЛИСТА ЗА ЕВРОПСКИ САНЏАК - ДР СУЛЕЈМАН УГЉАНИН), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 19 May 2024.11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 August 2023.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Articles 88 & 92) made available via LegislationOnline, , accessed 6 June 2021.

Parliamentarian Hodžić received the second position on the SDA's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won three seats.ИЗБОРИ ЗА НАРОДНЕ ПОСЛАНИКЕ НАРОДНЕ СКУПШТИНЕ, 21. ЈУН 2020. ГОДИНЕ – Изборне листе (11 СДА Санџака – др Сулејман Угљанин SDA Sandžaka – dr. Sulejman Ugljanin), Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 16 June 2020. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won a landslide majority victory, and the SDA was part of a small opposition in the parliament that followed.

During his parliamentary term, Hodžić was a member of the committee on the rights of the child, a deputy member of the spatial planning committee and the committee for human and minority rights and gender equality, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Albania, Algeria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Norway, Slovenia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.MIRSAD HODŽIĆ (МИРСАД ХОЏИЋ), , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 August 2023.

In July 2021, he took part in a SDA–Albanian Democratic Alternative delegation that met with Albin Kurti, prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo (which is not recognized by Serbia). During the meeting, the SDA indicated its support for the independence of Kosovo."Ugljanin i Kamberi kod Kurtija: Priznajemo nezavisnost Kosova", KosSev, 8 July 2021, accessed 19 October 2024.

He was not a candidate for re-election in 2022.

Local politics Hodžić led the SDA's list for the Sjenica municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections, which were held concurrently with the parliamentary vote.Službeni Glasnik (Općinski Sjenica), Volume 21 Number 23 (6 June 2020), p. 13. The SDA won a plurality victory with ten out of thirty-nine seats, but the second-place Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP) ultimately formed a coalition government, and the SDA served in opposition.Službeni Glasnik (Općinski Sjenica), Volume 21 Number 26 (22 June 2020), p. 2-3.S. Novosel, "Munib Mujagić novi predsednik opštine Sjenica", Danas, 21 August 2020, accessed 2 May 2022. Hodžić resigned from the local assembly on 11 June 2021.Službeni Glasnik (Općinski Sjenica), Volume 22 Number 10 (23 June 2021), p. 7.

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