# Adam Šukalo

Adam Šukalo (Serbian Cyrillic: Адам Шукало; born 2 September 1978) is a Bosnian Serb politician. He served in the National Assembly of the Republika Srpska from 2014 to 2018 as a member of Napredna Srpska. He subsequently relocated to Belgrade, Serbia, and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).

## Early life and career

Šukalo was born in Gradiška, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He later moved to Banja Luka. Šukalo holds a Bachelor of Laws degree.

## Politician
### Republika Srpska

Šukalo was the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party of Republika Srpska in the early 2010s, when the party was aligned with the Progressive Party in Serbia. He was a Progressive candidate in the 2010 Republika Srpska general election, in which the party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. The Republika Srpska Progressives subsequently became divided between different factions and Šukalo became the leader of a new party called Napredna Srpska (English: "Progressive Srpska") following a split in 2013.
Napredna Srpska contested the 2014 Republika Srpska general election on an electoral list led by the Democratic People's Alliance (Demokratski narodni savez, DNS), and Šukalo was elected to the assembly after being awarded a compensatory mandate under the Republika Srpska's system of proportional representation. Following the election, Šukalo called for a "grand coalition" government between the two largest parties, the rival Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata, SNSD) and Serb Democratic Party (Srpska demokratska stranka, SDS). In so doing, he suggested the prospect of Napredna Srpska acting as a bridge between the parties. This ultimately did not occur; the DNS joined a coalition government led by the SNSD, and Napredna Srpska became part of the Alliance for Change, a coalition of opposition parties.
In 2017, Šukalo called for stronger inter-communal relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and identified both Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik and Party of Democratic Action leader Bakir Izetbegović as obstacles to progress.
Šukalo was replaced as leader of Naprenda Srpska by Goran Đorđić in March 2017. This occurred against the backdrop of merger negotiations with the Party of Democratic Progress (Partija demokratskog progresa, PDP). Šukalo subsequently announced that he would sit in caucus with the PDP as an independent member.
During his time in the Republika Srpska assembly, Šukalo was a frequent critic of the Dodik administration and was known for his verbal battles with interior minister Dragan Lukač. He was also a prominent member of the "Justice of David" movement, calling for an investigation into the death of David Dragičević. He served on the Committee for European integration and regional cooperation. and
He sought election to the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2018 Bosnian general election on the PDP's electoral list and was narrowly defeated.

### Member of the National Assembly of Serbia

Šukalo received the 125th position on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. He is now a member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the European integration committee and the committee on constitutional and legislative issues; a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Russia, Spain, and the United States of America.

## Election results
### Republika Srpska

2018 Bosnia and Herzegovina State House of Representatives election results: Republika Srpska, Division One :
| Party | Votes | % | Mandates |
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 116,915 | 40.01 | 1 + 2 |
| Party of Democratic Progress | 53,406 | 18.27 | 1 + 1 |
| SDS–NDP–NS–SRS | 52,365 | 17.92 | 1 |
| Democratic People's Alliance | 30,934 | 10.58 | |
| Socialist Party | 13,399 | 4.58 | |
| Party of Democratic Action | 9,967 | 3.41 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,493 | 1.54 | |
| First Serb Democratic Party | 3,485 | 1.19 | |
| Serbian Progressive Party of Republika Srpska | 2,743 | 0.94 | |
| HDZ–HSS–HKDU–HSP-HNS–HSP-AS BiH–HDU BiH | 2,378 | 0.81 | |
| Union for a Better Future of BiH | 1,394 | 0.48 | |
| Party of Democratic Activity | 443 | 0.15 | |
| Lijevo Krilo | 322 | 0.11 | |
| Total valid votes | 292,244 | 100.00 | |
Party of Democratic Progress candidate preference votes :
| Ballot # | Name | Votes | Notes |
| 1 | Branislav Borenović | 24,164 | Elected |
| 3 | Adam Šukalo | 20,927 | |
| 2 | Mira Pekić | 2,984 | Awarded compensatory mandate |
| 4 | Dijana Ješić | 3,599 | |
| 5 | Mladen Kulundžija | 2,922 | |
| 6 | Dragana Đukić | 2,444 | |
| 7 | Saša Čekrlja | 2,888 | |
| 8 | Vlastimir Vidić | 2,001 | |
2014 Republika Srpska National Assembly election results: Division Two :
| Party | Votes | % | Mandates |
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 30,154 | 40.85 | 3 |
| SDS–PUP–SRS RS | 21,318 | 28.88 | 2 |
| Party of Democratic Progress | 4,974 | 6.74 | 1 |
| DNS-NS-SRS | 4,791 | 6.49 | 1 + 1 |
| National Democratic Movement | 3,297 | 4.47 | |
| Homeland | 2,684 | 3.64 | |
| Socialist Party | 2,050 | 2.78 | + 1 |
| Serbian Progressive Party of Republika Srpska | 1,286 | 1.74 | |
| Fair Policy Party | 1,067 | 1.45 | |
| Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 851 | 1.15 | |
| For Justice and Red List | 479 | 0.65 | |
| Peasant Party | 429 | 0.58 | |
| Fighters for a New Politics | 212 | 0.29 | |
| HDZ–HSS–HKDU–HSP HB | 100 | 0.14 | |
| Party of Economic and Social Justice | 87 | 0.12 | |
| Croatian Democratic Union 1990 | 29 | 0.04 | |
| Total valid votes | 73,808 | 100.00 | |
Democratic People's Alliance–Napredna Stranka–Serbian Radical Party Dr. Vojislav Šešelj candidate preference votes :
| Ballot # | Name | Votes | Notes |
| 3 | Goran Đorđić | 1,540 | Elected |
| 4 | Vladimir Janković | 1,216 | |
| 5 | Zorica Jusupović | 1,116 | |
| 1 | Nebojša Ličanin | 822 | |
| 7 | Milorad Kondić | 458 | |
| 9 | Sanja Bajić | 311 | |
| 12 | Adam Šukalo | 260 | Awarded compensatory mandate |
| 11 | Branka Malbašić | 253 | |
| 2 | Vera Jelić | 177 | |
| 6 | Ognjen Vučen | 202 | |
| 8 | Milena Majstorović | 55 | |
| 10 | Dušan Marić | 173 | |
2010 Republika Srpska National Assembly election results: Division One :
| Party | Votes | % | Mandates |
| Alliance of Independent Social Democrats | 55,509 | 39.67 | 6 + 1 |
| Serb Democratic Party | 22,751 | 16.26 | 3 |
| Democratic People's Alliance | 13,367 | 9.55 | 1 + 1 |
| Party of Democratic Progress | 10,472 | 7.48 | 1 + 1 |
| Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5,121 | 3.66 | 1 |
| Party of Democratic Action | 4,521 | 3.23 | 1 |
| Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,123 | 2.95 | |
| Democratic Party of Republika Srpska | 4,074 | 2.91 | |
| Serbian Radical Party of Republika Srpska | 4,018 | 2.87 | |
| Serbian Progressive Party of Republika Srpska | 3,369 | 2.41 | |
| Socialist Party–Party of United Pensioners | 3,067 | 2.19 | |
| National Democratic Party | 2,821 | 2.02 | |
| Our Party–New Socialist Party | 1,841 | 1.32 | |
| Serbian Radical Party Dr. Vojislav Šešelj | 1,725 | 1.23 | |
| Union for a Better Future of BiH | 1,312 | 0.94 | |
| Alliance for Serbian Democracy | 717 | 0.51 | |
| People's Party for Work and Betterment | 462 | 0.33 | |
| Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina | 251 | 0.18 | |
| Democratic People's Union | 160 | 0.11 | |
| Ecological Party | 125 | 0.09 | |
| Croatian Coalition | 80 | 0.06 | |
| Liberal Democratic Party–European Ecological Party E-5 | 33 | 0.02 | |
| Total valid votes | 139,919 | 100.00 | |
Serbian Progressive Party of Republika Srpska candidate preference votes :
| Ballot # | Name | Votes |
| 1 | Adam Šukalo | 1,387 |
| 5 | Željko Blagojević | 797 |
| 3 | Stanko Vujković | 568 |
| 17 | Nevenka Glišić | 290 |
| 16 | Dejan Stanišljević | 276 |
| 2 | Nada Milovanović | 255 |
| 15 | Milan Popović | 243 |
| 9 | Jovo Biga | 206 |
| 4 | Sanja Kovačević | 142 |
| 6 | Radovan Bratić | 66 |
| 7 | Teodor Vučić | 142 |
| 8 | Tanja Nedimović | 76 |
| 10 | Drago Mastikosa | 114 |
| 11 | Slavica Savanović | 88 |
| 12 | Aleksandar Kukobat | 67 |
| 13 | Svetislav Kuzmanović | 123 |
| 14 | Gordana Kragulj | 89 |
| 18 | Slobodan Tuta | 133 |