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In August 2020 Dragana Sotirovski was elected the first female Mayor in the history of Niš city. She was born in Aleksinac where she graduated from the Pedagogical Academy and the Music School. She graduated from the Faculty of Geography at the University of Belgrade and completed her master studies in Tourism at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš She started working as a journalist in 1992 in the editorial office of the Radio Television Serbia Morning Program. From 1997 she worked  first as a reporter and then as the Head of the Radio Television Serbia Correspondence Office in Niš. She is the author of numerous informative articles, documentaries, travelogues and short films from the country and abroad, which are permanently saved in the Program Archives of RTS. For years she reported on the activities of the Serbian state leadership and statesmen from the region. She is the winner of numerous awards and recognitions at international and domestic festivals of journalistic creativity among which is the award for journalistic courage.From December 2017 to 2020 she was the Head of the Nišava Administrative District. She is married, a mother of three children and a grandmother of two grandchildren.

Nikola Dašić, a graduated economist and military officer from Kragujevac, was born on March 4, 1975 in Ljubljana. He graduated from the School of Economics in Kragujevac, and the Military Technical Academy in Belgrade. He started his career as an assistant chief accountant, in "PP Stari hrast", where he worked from 1993 to 1994. In the "MV Interkom" Kragujevac company, he worked in from 1998 to 1999 as a sales manager. Between 2002 and 2005, in the General Staff of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro, he was a platoon commander - manager of the logistics unit for supply and equipment of the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense. In 2005, he started working in the Privatization Agency, Kragujevac Regional Office, as an assistant project manager, and in 2006, he became the director of the Kragujevac Regional Center. He continued his career in 2012 at the National Bank of Serbia, as the director of the forced collection department in Kragujevac, and since 2013 the assistant to director of the forced collection department and advisor to the Governor for regional supervision in the branches in Kragujevac, Niš and Užice and coordinates with the Cash Operations Department with the Governor’s authorization, as well as the treasury departments in the branches in Belgrade and Novi Sad. He speaks English. Married, father of three.

He was born in 1965 in Leskovac, completing his primary education and high school in the city, and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Niš in 1990, later obtaining a PhD title with the highest degrees. He holds the title of MD specialized in internal medicine. He is a co-author of a number of scientific papers in the field of medicine. He stayed in London for professional development, becoming fluent in English language. He was appointed the Chairman of Leskovac City Assembly in two terms, and was also the first Mayor of Leskovac, after it received the status of a city – from June 2008 to March 2009, later taking on the same position again in November 2012. He was the Federal Minister without Portfolio in SRY, and elected an MP in the National Parliament 5 times, from 2001 to 2012. He is a member of the Committee on Health and Care of Families and Children, Committee on Local Government, the delegation of Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE. He has been a part of NALED management since 2014, as a member of the Managing and Executive Board. He is a member of Presidency of Serbian Progressive Party.

Aleksandar Pajic was born on April 30, 1970 in Novi Sad. He graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education of the University of Novi Sad in October 1994. He obtained his master\'s degree at the same faculty in 2001. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 2011 at the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education of the University of Niš. He established a working relationship at the \"Dr. Andra Jovanović\" Medical School in Šabac in 1995. During his 20 years of work at the school, he led five generations of students as a class teacher, was a member of the School Board of the school where he worked, president of the expert council, coordinator for school sports of the Association of Pedagogues, president of the school\'s trade union organization, assistant director, and from 2013 to In 2017, the director of the Medical School \"Dr. Andra Jovanovic\". By the decision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia in January 2017, he was appointed acting assistant to the Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, and from 2018 he was entrusted with the post of special advisor to the minister. He was the president of the Board of Directors of the General Hospital \"Dr. Laza K. Lazarevic\" Šabac, a member of the Board of Directors of PU \"Naše dete\", a member of the Board of Directors of the Šabac Sports Association. Association, member of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Promotion of Science of the Republic of Serbia and president of the Republic Admission Commission for Secondary Education. Since 2020, he has been the mayor of Šabac. He is married and the father of daughter Anna and son Djordje.