Bajro Gegić
Bajro Gegić () is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bosniak community. He was a member of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak ("Stranka demokratske akcije Sandžaka"; SDA) for many years and has served two terms in the National Assembly of Serbia. Gegić is also a member of the Bosniac National Council. Early life and private career. Gegić was born in Tutin, in the Sandžak region of what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised and educated in the town of his birth, he graduated in  the field of science and mathematics, worked as a professor for more than twenty-three years, and after this became an education inspector in the Tutin municipality. Political career. Gegić was appointed as deputy mayor of Tutin in 2004 and served as the town's mayor from 2008 to 2012. From 2005 to 2008, he was a state secretary in Serbia's education ministry. He appeared on the List for Sandžak alliance's electoral list in both the 2007 and 2008 Serbian parliamentary elections, but he was not chosen as part of its parliamentary delegation on either occasion. (From 2000  to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates.) Member of the National Assembly. Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The SDA ran its own electoral list in the 2012 parliamentary election, and Gegić was given the second position. The party won two seats, and he served as an opposition member in the assembly for the next two years. He was dropped to the ninth position for the 2014 election and, as the party won only  three seats, was not returned. Gegić served on the presidency of the SDA during this time, although he stood down from the position in January 2015. He returned to parliament soon after the 2016 parliamentary election, in which he received the fourth position on the SDA's list. The list won only two seats, but party leader Sulejman Ugljanin resigned shortly after the election, and Minela Kalender, the third candidate on the list, declined to serve. As a result, Gegić was awarded the vacant mandate on August 11, 2016. He is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on constitutional  and legislative issues and a deputy member of the health and family committee and the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society. The SDA serves in a parliamentary grouping with the Liberal Democratic Party, and Gegić once again serves as an opposition member. Gegić was expelled from the SDA in February 2020 on the grounds that he had violated the party's statute and program, and that he was organizing a municipal electoral list separate from the party. He is not seeking re-election in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. Member of the Bosniac National Council. Gegić  was awarded the second position on Ugljanin's "For Bosniak Unity" list in the 2014 elections to the Bosniac National Council. The list won a majority with nineteen out of thirty-five seats on the council, and Gegić has served since this time as a council member.