He graduated from the University of Niš Faculty of Electronics in 1984 and worked as a technical support engineer for the company El Honeywell from 1985 to 1991, implementing information technology projects throughout major firms in Yugoslavia.

These elections, marked by controversy and protests, ultimately led to victories for Zajedno in several major Serbian cities, including Niš.

[3][4][5] Zoran Živković, also a member of the Democratic Party, served as president of the assembly, a position that was at the time equivalent to mayor.

[7] Ćirić was re-elected to the assembly for the city's forty-eighth division and was appointed afterward as a vice-president of the executive board, overseeing the department of public services.

[13] 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.

[15] This notwithstanding, Ćirić and the mayors of Sofia and Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, signed an agreement to form a euroregion centred around their communities in 2003.

[16] Ćirić served two terms as chair of the Permanent Conference of the Cities and Municipalities in Yugoslavia during his time as mayor.

In early 2002, he signed an accord with a representative of the National Association of Municipalities in Bulgaria for greater cooperation between the local governments of both countries.

[29] Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.

[31] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won a majority government, and the DS continued to serve in opposition.

[35] The Democratic Party began boycotting the national assembly in early 2019, against the backdrop of significant public protests against Serbia's SNS-led government.