Dragan Maršićanin
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Dragan Maršićanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Маршићанин; born 26 January 1950) is a Serbian politician. He was the ambassador of Serbia to Switzerland, serving from 2004 to 2009. He was also Serbian Minister of Economy, but his position was put on hold when he decided to run for president in 2004. He later resigned from the position and was replaced by Predrag Bubalo in October, 2004.
In the Serbian presidential election, 2004 Maršićanin finished 4th with 13.3% of the vote.
He has been President of the National Assembly of Serbia in 2001 and 2004 and the interim acting President of Serbia between 4 February and 3 March 2004.
Maršićanin graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics. Following university studies, he worked for companies such as Elektron, Novi Kolektiv and Belgrade Water Utility Company. He has been a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia since the party's founding. For a time he was the secretary of party, and currently is its vice-president. He served as chairman of Vračar municipality in Belgrade until 1996.