Nenad Čanak MP |
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President of the Assembly of Vojvodina | |
In office 23 October 2000 – 30 October 2004 |
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Preceded by | Živorad Smiljanić |
Succeeded by | Bojan Kostreš |
Personal details | |
Born |
Pančevo, SFR Yugoslavia |
November 2, 1959
Nationality | Serbian |
Political party | League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina |
Nenad Čanak (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Чанак, pronounced [nɛ̂naːd tʃǎnak]; born November 2, 1959) is a Serbian writer, television personality and politician, the co-founder and leader of the centre-left League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. He was the President of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2000 to 2004, and has since been a member of the Serbian Parliament.
Čanak was born in Pančevo, in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia (now Serbia). His paternal ancestors were colonists from Zrmanja, Gračac in Lika (in modern Croatia). His father was born in Banat.
He was raised in a family of teachers, and went to the general and musical high school (Flute) in Novi Sad, graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Economics at Subotica and after that specialized in marketing and computer networks at the Executive Training Center in Brdo pri Kranju in 1989. Nenad Čanak was married to Marija Vasić until their divorce in 2001. They have a son together, born in 1999.