Branko Popović


Branko Popović is a medical doctor and politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2017 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Popović was born in Nova Varoš, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Educated in Belgrade, he later returned to his home city to work as a pneumophtisiologist. He is currently the director of the Health Center in Nova Varoš.

Political career

Popović was a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement in the early 2000s. He appeared in the 207th position on the combined electoral list of the SPO and New Serbia in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won twenty-two mandates, and Popović was not selected for a mandate. He also appeared on the SPO's list in the 2007 election, when the party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.
He joined the Progressive Party in 2010 and was a party representative in the Nova Varoš municipal assembly for six years before receiving a mandate in the National Assembly. In 2016, he served as part of a provisional administration that was directly appointed by the Serbian government following the resignation of the incumbent mayor.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Popović received the 142nd position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates; Popović was not immediately elected but was able to take a seat in the assembly on October 12, 2017, as a replacement for Branislav Blažić, who had resigned to take a government position. He is currently a deputy member of the assembly's environmental protection committee and its health and family committee.