Goran Ćirić

Goran Ćirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Ћирић; born July 25, 1960) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party and has led the party's parliamentary group since 2016. Ćirić was previously the mayor of Niš from 2000 to 2004.

Ćirić was born in Niš, at the time part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Raised in the city, he graduated in electronic engineering in 1984. Ćirić joined the Democratic Party in 1992, became part of its executive in 1996, and led the party in the Niš municipal assembly from 1997 to 2001. In late 1999, he was involved in organizing protests against Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević.

Ćirić was elected as the mayor of Niš in late 2000, succeeding fellow Democratic Party member Zoran Živković. In December 2000, Ćirić hosted talks between Miloševiċ's newly elected successor Vojislav Koštunica and Bulgarian president Petar Stoyanov.

Between 2001 and 2002, Ćirić and his Bulgarian counterparts sought to construct a highway from Niš to Sofia with funding from the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. This project was indefinitely postponed in 2002 when the European Investment Bank withheld funding, stating that demand for the highway was insufficient and that the project would not quickly recoup its initial losses. Notwithstanding this, Ćirić and the mayors of Sofia and Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, signed an agreement to form a euroregion centred around their communities in 2003.

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