Zijad Lugavić
32nd Mayor of Tuzla
Assumed office
1 December 2022
Preceded byJasmin Imamović
Personal details
Born (1973-10-15) 15 October 1973
Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalityBosnian
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Children2
EducationUniversity of Tuzla

Zijad Lugavić (born 15 October 1973) is a Bosnian politician serving as the 32nd mayor of Tuzla since December 2022. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party.

Lugavić was born in Tuzla in 1973. He graduated from the University of Tuzla. He worked in administrative bodies and in the real sector before becoming mayor of Tuzla.

Early life and education

Lugavić was born on 15 October 1973 in Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.[1] He graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tuzla in 2000.[2] He obtained his master's degree from the Faculty of Economics in Tuzla in 2014, and the title of Doctor of Social Science in the field of economics in 2020.[1]

Lugavić was part of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.[1] Following the war and his undergraduate studies, he worked in administrative bodies and as an interpreter in a number of international organizations, before moving to the real sector.[3]

Political career

Lugavić is a member of the Social Democratic Party. When Jasmin Imamović, long-time mayor of Tuzla, got elected to the national House of Representatives in the 2022 general election, he was forced to resign as mayor.[4] Following his resignation, Lugavić, a close associate of Imamović, was unanimously elected as the acting mayor on 1 December 2022.[5]

Early elections to elect a new mayor of Tuzla were held on 5 February 2023.[6] In the election, Lugavić was elected with 47.77%, a plurality of the vote.[7]

Personal life

Lugavić is married and has two children.[1] He lives with his family in Tuzla.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Zijad Lugavić". sdp.ba. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Dr.sc. Zijad Lugavić". mojkandidat.ba. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  3. ↑ A.K. (2 December 2022). "Zijad Lugavić imenovan za privremenog gradonačelnika Tuzle, poručio da će raditi pošteno" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  4. ↑ A.K. (18 November 2022). "Jasmin Imamović nakon 22 godine odlazi sa čela Tuzle, kaže da želi napraviti velike stvari za BiH" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Zijad Lugavić jednoglasno izabran za v.d. gradonačelnika Tuzle" (in Bosnian). n1info.ba. 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "Prijevremeni izbori 2023". izbori.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 20 December 2023.
  7. ↑ A.K. (5 February 2023). "SDP proglasio pobjedu: Zijad Lugavić je novi gradonačelnik Tuzle" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
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