Branka Bakšić Mitić
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August 1961 (age 63)
- humanitarian activist
- politician
Branka Bakšić Mitić | |
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Бранка Бакшић Митић | |
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| Born | Branka Mitić August 1961 (age 63) |
| Citizenship | Croatia |
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| Spouse | Dinko Bakšić |
| Children | 1 |
Branka Bakšić Mitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранка Бакшић Митић; born in August 1961)[1] is a Croatian humanitarian activist. Her work is primarily focused on the underdeveloped and depopulated villages of Banovina region. She has been an elected representative of the Serbs of Croatia in Glina since 2017. Her work attracted significant public attention in the aftermath of the 2020 Petrinja earthquake.
Branka Mitić was born in August 1961 in a Serb family in Zagreb, but grew up in Glina.[1] Her father died when she was 10 years old and she grew up with a single mother.[2] She is married to Dinko Bakšić, who is a Croat and the brother of former mayor of Glina, Milan Bakšić.[1][3] She has a daughter, Maja, and a granddaughter, Andreja.[3] At the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence, Bakšić Mitić was in Germany together with family where she stayed for some time before moving to Zagreb.[4] In 2010, she moved back to Glina.[2]
Public work in Glina
Since the 2017 Croatian local elections, she is the deputy mayor of the town of Glina, elected as a representative of the Serb national minority. Due to an unwillingness to cooperate on Glina mayor's part, Bakšić Mitić described her elected function as lacking any powers.[5]
Bakšić Mitić is a 2019 recipient of the Ponos Hrvatske (Pride of Croatia) award, given by the 24sata media company.[6][7][8] She also received the Strašne žene (Fierce Women) prize from Vox Feminae.[6]
Together with a Croatian Radiotelevision journalist Maja Sever, she started the Ljudi za ljude (People for People) humanitarian initiative in which they organize a collection of humanitarian aid for Banovina in Zagreb.