Mirza Hajdinović () is a Serbian politician and administrator from the country's Bosniak community. He is the current secretary of Serbia's Bosniak National Council (BNV), a position he previously held from 2017 to 2022.
Hajdinović briefly served in Serbia's national assembly in September 2024. He is a member of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (SDA).
Private career Hajdinović has a master's degree in journalism and communicology. He lives in Novi Pazar.MIRZA HAJDINOVIĆ, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 October 2024.
Politician and administrator Hajdinović has been a prominent member of the SDA organization for many years and has held party positions including member of the Novi Pazar committee, member of the main board, and member of the supervisory board."Odrzana konstitutivna sjednica povjerenistva opstinskog ogranka Stranke Demokratske Akcije Sandzaka za Novi Pazar", Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak, 12 March 2007, accessed 21 October 2024."Izabrani članovi organa Stranke sa ugledom i perspektivom", Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak, [year not listed], accessed 21 October 2024."Izabrani novi organi SDA Sandžaka", Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak, 9 December 2017, accessed 21 October 2024. He does not appear to have held elected public office apart from his brief tenure in the Serbian parliament.
He appeared in the thirteenth position on the SDA's electoral list for the Novi Pazar municipal assembly in the 2004 Serbian local elections.Službeni List (Opštine Novi Pazar), Volume 11 Number 10 (5 September 2004), p. 1. The list won a plurality victory with twenty-one out of forty-seven seats; Hajdinović was not, however, awarded an assembly mandate.Službeni List (Opštine Novi Pazar), Volume 11 Number 12 (23 September 2004), p. 2.Službeni List (Opštine Novi Pazar), Volume 11 Number 15 (27 December 20040, pp. 2-3. (In the 2004 local elections, one-third of assembly mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds were assigned at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions.Law on Local Elections , Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 33/2002; made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 29 May 2021. Hajdinović was not automatically elected, and he did not receive an "optional" mandate.)
Prior to 2010, Serbia's national minority councils were chosen by electoral colleges of community representatives. Hajdinović was an elector for the Bosniak National Council in this period.Избори за народне посланике ELEKTORI BOŠNJAČKOG NACIONALNOG VIJEĆA U SRBIJI I CRNOJ GORI, , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 19 May 2024. It will be noted that the council was overseen by the state union of Serbia and Montenegro until the secession of Montenegro in 2006. The Serbian government introduced direct elections for most councils, including the BNV, in 2010.
Hajdinović was appointed as secretary of the BNV in late 2017, replacing Ahmedin Škrijelj.Sekretar, , Bosniak National Council, accessed 20 October 2024.Sekretar, , Bosniak National Council, accessed 20 October 2024. In November 2018, he took part in a BNV delegation that met with Bakir Izetbegović, chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo."Izetbegović i Džaferović sastali se s Ugljaninom u Sarajevu", N1, 15 November 2018, accessed 21 October 2024.
He received the thirty-first position on a SDA-affiliated list in the 2018 BNV election.Избори за чланове националних савета националних мањина 2018. године, 4. новембар 2018. године – Проглашене изборне листе (Национални савет БОШЊАЧКЕ националне мањине), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 May 2024. The list won fourteen seats, and he was not elected.Избори за чланове националних савета националних мањина 2018. године, 4. новембар 2018. године – Укупни резултати избора за националне савете националних мањина (Национални савет БОШЊАЧКЕ националне мањине), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 October 2024. The SDA formed a coalition administration with the Sandžak Democratic Party (SDP) after the election, and Hajdinović was chosen for a new term as the BNV's secretary."Izabrano novo rukovodstvo BNV-a", RTV Novi Pazar, 8 December 2018, accessed 21 October 2024.
Hajdinović was given the seventh position on the SDA's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was not elected when the list won three mandates.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. He later received the twenty-seventh position on the SDA's list in the 2022 BNV election and was again not elected when the party fell to ten seats.IZBORNA LISTA: KANDIDATA ZA ČLANOVE NACIONALNOG SAVJETA BOŠNJAČKE NACIONALNE MANJINE („BOŠNJAČKO JEDINSTVO – dr. Sulejman Ugljanin“) [2022 election], Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia."Bošnjaci u Sandžaku: Koliko je čvrst sporazum Ugljanina i Zukorlića?", Al Jazeera Balkans, 31 December 2022. The SDA formed a new coalition administration with the Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP) after the election. Hajdinović's term as BNV secretary ended in December 2022, and he was replaced by Samer Jusović."Izabrani potpredsjednici, Izvršni odbor i sekretar BNV-a", Sana Press, 29 December 2022, accessed 21 October 2024.
He appeared in the third position on the SDA's list in the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election and narrowly missed direct election when the list won two seats."Ko su kandidati za narodne poslanike na listi 'SDA Sandžaka – dr Sulejman Ugljanin'?", N1, 15 November 2023, accessed 19 May 2024. In August 2024, the party's lead candidate Selma Kučević was required to resign as a legislator after becoming the mayor of Tutin."Od osporavane do reformatorke: Ko je Selma Kučević nova predsednica opštine Tutin?", Danas, 1 August 2024, accessed 8 October 2024. Hajdinović was the next candidate in sequence to receive a seat; however, the party leadership decided that the mandate would instead go to the fourth-ranked candidate, Minela Kalender."Minela Kalender umesto Selme Kučević u Skupštini Srbije", Danas, 13 August 2024, accessed 20 October 2024. Technically, Hajdinović accepted Kučević's vacated mandate and became a member of assembly on 24 September 2024, but he resigned on the same day, and Kalender was named afterward as his replacement.62. седница Републичке изборне комисије, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, 24 September 2024, accessed 20 October 2024.Current Legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 October 2024.63. седница Републичке изборне комисије, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, 26 September 2024, accessed 20 October 2024.
He was appointed to a new term as BNV secretary on 23 September 2024, replacing Jusović, amid a turnover in the leadership of that body."Reizabrani organi BNV-a", Sandžak Media, 23 September 2024, accessed 21 October 2024.
Personal life Hajdinović's surname stems from his grandfather Hajdin Dreshaj who was related to Bilall Dreshaj.
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