Draško Stanivuković

Draško Stanivuković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драшко Станивуковић; born 21 May 1993) is a Bosnian Serb politician serving as mayor of Banja Luka since December 2020.

So far, he has organized several protest walks and gatherings to point out the problems facing the citizens of Banja Luka, and also the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[12] Two months later, Stanivuković was slapped in the face by the Minister of Interior, Dragan Lukač after an argument during the session of the National Assembly.

[13] One day after, Stanivuković said that Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina threatened him and insulted his mother, posting a video on Twitter as the proof.

[15] Not long after, in an interview with Face TV, Stanivuković stated that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is a political court.

Also in May 2020, Stanivuković filed a report with the Banja Luka District Public Prosecutor's Office against BiH Presidency member and SNSD leader Milorad Dodik, and Interior Minister Dragan Lukač for, as stated in the document, unauthorized wiretapping and audio recording after Dodik publicly said that he wiretaps the opposition.

[18] Stanivuković was arrested on 29 August 2020 in Nikšić, Montenegro after participating in the anti-government religious protest in support of the Serbian Orthodox Church together with a Montenegrin politician, Vladislav Dajković.

[19] On 1 November 2020, the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP) announced that in the Banja Luka settlement of Kumsale, a man with a pointed gun approached the private car of Stanivuković looking for him.

[20] On 5 July 2020, it was announced that Stanivuković would run for mayor of Banja Luka as a candidate of the PDP in the 2020 Bosnian municipal elections.

President of the Serb Democratic Party, Mirko Šarović, called him a candidate "who knows what the city needs" and that he has a vision of the "European Banja Luka which Republika Srpska deserves as well".