Dobrivoje Budimirović
Dobrivoje Budimirović (), commonly known as Bidža, is a retired politician in Serbia. He was the mayor of Svilajnac for most of the period from 1989 to 2008 and also served in the Serbian and Yugoslavian parliaments. For many years a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije, SPS), he later started his own political movement and is now a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS). Early life and career Budimirović was born in the village of Lukovica near Svilajnac, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade and later worked in a co-operative and for the company Agroeksport. Beginning in 1980, he served for a number of years as director of the Agricultural School. In 2013, Budimirović took part in a reality television show called Farmers. The following year, his home was seriously damaged in the 2014 Southeast Europe floods. In 2020, it was reported that he was cultivating one-and-a-half hectares of farmland, where he grew wheat, corn, and alfalfa, and was still busy with a variety of domestic and international projects. He once saved