Goran Ivančević

Ivančević was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a master's degree (2012) and a doctorate (2016) in political science from Educons University, a private institution in Novi Sad. His doctoral thesis was on Vojvodina's political system since the re-introduction of multi-party democracy in 1990.^[1]

He has served as deputy provincial secretary for regional development, inter-regional co-operation, and local self-government in the government of Vojvodina.^[2]

Ivančević was a member of the executive board of the Serbian Renewal Movement until 2017, when he and other party officials resigned in protest against Vuk Drašković's continued leadership of the party.^[3] He subsequently became a founding member of the POKS and is its current secretary-general.^[4]

He received the lead position on the POKS electoral list for the Vojvodina provincial assembly in the 2020 provincial election and was elected when the list won five mandates.^[5] He is the leader of the POKS group in the assembly, the deputy chair of the committee on culture and public information, and a member of the committee for administrative and mandate issues.^[6][7] He also received the ninety-second position on the party's list for the National Assembly of Serbia in the concurrent 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.^[8] This list did not cross the electoral threshold to win seats in the assembly.

Ivančević holds right-wing views on issues of cultural identity. In the 2020 elections, he described migrant refugees in Serbia as a "security threat" and said that the country should close its borders to refugees, including those whom he described as "jihadists."^[9]