At the very beginning of July, just after taking over the duties of the mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić appointed Miroslav Čučković, the former president of the Obrenovac Municipality, as the city manager. Although he has a dynamic political biography, in most of Serbia (outside of Belgrade) Čučković is remembered as the man whose mandate In 2014, Obrenovac was hit by a torrential flood of catastrophic proportions.
Fate wanted that on July 5, just a few days after Šapić informed the public that Čučković would take care of the even development of the city in the future, Belgrade would be hit by a big downpour and that many parts of old and a good part of New Belgrade would be flooded. Part of the public interpreted this as a finger of fate or Čučković's karma - Twitter was flooded with comments on his account, and the floods were interpreted as a consequence of his first working day in his new position...
According to the official biography, Miroslav Čučković was born in 1979 in Belgrade. He finished primary and secondary school in Obrenovac. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade with a grade of 10, majoring in power systems. From 2004 to 2009, he was the president of the company "Kolubara universal", and a member of the Board of Directors of Jata from 2007 to 2009. He was a member of the Belgrade Assembly for two terms, in 2005 and 2008, both times as a member of G17 plus and the successor of this party, the United Regions of Serbia (URS). In the second term, he was elected as a member of the city council (2008–2012). He was the president of the G17 plus Belgrade regional board and a member of the Presidency of the United Regions of Serbia.
In June 2015, he joined the Serbian Progressive Party. ..
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