Bogdan V. Radovanović (; born 10 October 1989) is a Serbian politician. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since February 2024 as a member of the Green–Left Front (ZLF).
Early life and career Radovanović has a Bachelor of Laws degree.BOGDAN RADOVANOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 4 April 2024. He was the director of a company in Sevojno for five years and afterward worked as a lawyer for Dunav auto. He lives in Požega.Kandidati: Republička izborna lista, Green–Left Front, 2023, accessed 4 April 2024.
Politician Radovanović was a founding member of the local Initiative for Požega (Inicijativa za Požegu, IZP) party in 2018.Kandidati: Republička izborna lista, Green–Left Front, 2023, accessed 4 April 2024. In 2021, Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić accused the IZP of spreading false information about Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić's son; Radovanović later refuted this claim.N. Kovačević, "Bogdan Radovanović iz Inicijative za Požegu: Ana Brnabić opet zloupotrebljava medijski prostor i obmanjuje javnost", Danas, 13 January 2023, accessed 4 April 2024.
The IZP announced a co-operation agreement with Nebojša Zelenović's civic platform initiative (which later became the Akcija movement) in April 2021."Inicijativa za Požegu i Zelenović: Novi ljudi neophodni ukoliko očekujemo suštinske promene", Danas, 11 April 2021, accessed 7 April 2024."Osnovana otvorena građanska platforma 'Akcija'", Danas, 5 June 2021, accessed 7 April 2024. Five IZP candidates later contested the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the We Must (Moramo) coalition electoral list.Slavica Panić, "Na listi 'Moramo' pet iz 'Inicijative za Požegu'", Nova, 28 February 2022, accessed 7 April 2024. Radovanović was included in the eighty-sixth position and was not elected when the list won thirteen mandates."Ko su kandidati koalicije 'Moramo' za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 22 February 2022, accessed 17 October 2022.
In February 2023, Radovanović helped to bring the IZP into the Green–Left Front alliance at the republican level."Ne davimo Beograd i Inicijativa za Požegu nastavljaju zajedničku borbu kroz partiju Zeleno-levi front", Green–Left Front, 28 February 2023, accessed 4 April 2024.
Parliamentarian The Green–Left Front took part in the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition. Radovanović appeared in the sixty-fifth position on the coalition's list and was elected when the list won exactly sixty-five mandates."Objavljen spisak: Ko su sve kandidati za poslanike liste 'Srbija protiv nasilja'?", Danas, 10 November 2023, accessed 4 April 2024. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won a majority victory, and the ZLF serves in opposition.
Radovanović is a member of the defence and internal affairs committee and a deputy member of the health and family committee, the committee on the rights of the child, and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government.BOGDAN RADOVANOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 4 April 2024.
Municipal representative Radovanović led the IZP–ZLF into an alliance with the Democratic Party (DS) in Požega for the 2023 Serbian local elections, which took place concurrently with the parliamentary election.N. Kovačević, "Požega: Prvi sporazum opozicije u Srbiji o zajedničkom izlasku na lokalne izbore", Danas, 11 October 2023, accessed 4 April 2024. He led the resulting Požega Against Violence list and was elected when it won eleven seats. The SNS and its allies won the election, and Radovanović serves as an opposition deputy at the municipal level.Službeni List (Opštine Požega), 2024 Number 2 (11 January 2024), pp. 1-3.Одборници Скупштине Општине Пожега, Municipality of Požega, accessed 4 April 2024.
In February 2024, Radovanović called for a picture of Aleksandar Vučić to be removed from the municipal assembly."Vučićevu sliku okačili u sali gde sede odbornici", Direktno, 5 February 2024, accessed 4 April 2024.
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