He moved to Bač the following year, completed high school in Bačka Palanka, graduated from the University of Novi Sad's Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and took post-graduate studies in Belgrade.
[1] Bogunović contested the 1990 Serbian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in the "Bačka Palanka II & Bač" division.
In the 2000 local elections, he was re-elected to the assembly as a candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a broad coalition of parties that included the DS.
[5][6] In 2010, Bogunović accompanied Serbian president Boris Tadić on a delegation to Vukovar in Croatia, where Tadič apologized on behalf of Serbia for the Ovčara massacre during the Croatian War in 1991.
[7] Bogunović led the DS to another plurality victory for Bač in the 2012 local elections, but he was removed from power afterwards by a coalition of the Serbian Progressive Party and the Socialists.
[18] Bogunović also appeared on the DS's electoral lists for the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2007 and 2014 parliamentary elections, although he did not receive a mandate on either occasion.