Dragan S. Tomić (; born 23 August 1958) is a Serbian former politician. He has served two terms in the Serbian parliament and was a candidate for president of Serbia in 2003. Tomić was, at different times, a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the Socialist People's Party (SNS), and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
Early life and career Tomić was born in Šabac, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree. He started his career at the municipal court in Šabac and later served as director of the republic administration of public revenues in the same city.BIOGRAFIJA: Dragan S. Tomić, , Socialist People's Party, 19 May 2004, accessed 2 March 2026.
Politician Socialist Party of Serbia Tomić was the leader of the Socialist Party's local board in Šabac in the late 1990s.Borba, 22 May 1996, p. 5. He appeared in the fourth position on a coalition electoral list of the Socialist Party, the Yugoslav Left (JUL), and New Democracy (ND) in the Šabac division in the 1997 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (13 Шабац), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024. The list won three out of eight seats in the division, and he did not receive a mandate.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године – РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за народне посланике у Народну скупштину Републике Србије, одржаних 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997. године (Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. и 28. септембра и 5. октобра 1997.) године, , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 February 2024.PRVA SEDNICA, 03.12.1997., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 24 January 2026. (From 1992 to 2000, Serbia's electoral law stipulated that one-third of parliamentary mandates would be assigned to candidates from successful lists in numerical order, while the remaining two-thirds would be distributed amongst other candidates at the discretion of the sponsoring parties.Guide to the Early Election , Ministry of Information of the Republic of Serbia, December 1992, made available by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, accessed 14 July 2017. It was common practice for the latter mandates to be awarded out of order. Tomić could have received a mandate despite his relatively low list position; in the event, however, he did not.)
During the 1990s, Serbian political life was dominated by the authoritarian rule of SPS leader Slobodan Milošević. Milošević was defeated in the 2000 Yugoslavian presidential election and fell from power on 5 October 2000. Serbia subsequently held a new parliamentary election in December 2000; prior to the vote, its electoral laws were changed such that the entire country became a single at-large electoral district and all mandates were assigned to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order.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 6 June 2021.
Tomić appeared in the 237th position (out of 250) on the SPS's electoral list in the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election; the list was mostly alphabetical.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 23. децембра 2000. године и 10. јануара 2001. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Социјалистичка партија Србије – Слободан Милошевић), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The Socialists won thirty-seven seats, and on this occasion he was given a mandate, taking his seat when the assembly convened in January 2001.PRVA KONSTITUTIVNA SEDNICA, 22.01.2001., Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 December 2025. The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) won a landslide victory, and the Socialists served in opposition.
Socialist People's Party The Socialist Party experienced a serious split in 2002, with Branislav Ivković leading a breakaway group that ultimately became known as the Socialist People's Party. Tomić sided with Ivković, became secretary-general of the new party, and served as deputy leader of its assembly group.BIOGRAFIJA: Dragan S. Tomić, , Socialist People's Party, 19 May 2004, accessed 2 March 2026."Branislav Ivković", B92, 9 September 2002, accessed 2 March 2026. During this time, he was also a member of the assembly's legislative committee, finance committee, and privatization committee.Детаљи о народном посланику: ТОМИЋ, ДРАГАН, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 March 2026.
Tomić was the Socialist People's Party candidate in the 2003 Serbian presidential election, in which he presented himself as a "modernizer" of the socialist ideal.BIOGRAFIJA: Dragan S. Tomić, , Socialist People's Party, 19 May 2004, accessed 2 March 2026. He finished fifth in a field of six candidates with about 2.25% of the valid votes.
Tomić subsequently appeared in the third position on the electoral list of the Socialist People's Party in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (15. СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА НАРОДНА СТРАНКА - НАРОДНИ БЛОК - ГЕНЕРАЛ НЕБОЈША ПАВКОВИЋ), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 14 August 2022. The list did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation, and his first assembly term ended when the new parliament convened in early 2004.
The Socialist People's Party later contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election on a coalition electoral list of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS). Tomić appeared in the 215th position on the list, which did not cross the electoral threshold.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (9 Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) - Др Небојша Човић), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 April 2024. The Socialist People's Party ceased to exist in 2010.
Serbian Progressive Party Tomić later joined the Serbian Progressive Party.
Serbia's electoral system was again reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Tomić appeared in the sixty-eighth position on the SNS's Let's Get Serbia Moving list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to a second assembly term when the list won seventy-three seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The Progressives subsequently formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia, the United Regions of Serbia (URS), and other parties, and Tomić served as a government supporter. He was a member of the finance committee, a deputy member of the justice committee and the committee on constitutional affairs and legislation, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Belgium and Syria, and a member of the friendship groups with Australia, Belarus, Japan, Luxembourg, and Portugal.DRAGAN TOMIĆ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 2 March 2026.
Tomić was arrested in February 2014 on suspicion of misusing his position as president of the executive board of Univerzal Banka. Aleksandar Vučić described Tomić's arrest as proof that SNS members would not receive preferential treatment before the law."Poslanik SNS-a zadržan u policiji do 48 sati", Al Jazeera, 13 February 2014, accessed 2 March 2026. Given the circumstances, Tomić was not included in the SNS's list in the 2014 parliamentary election.
He was acquitted of the charges against him in November 2019.Jasmina Lukač, "Dragan Tomić: Oslobođen", Danas, 29 October 2019, accessed 2 March 2026.
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