Rade Basta | |
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Раде Баста | |
 Basta in 2023 | |
| Minister of Economy | |
| In office 26 October 2022 – 22 June 2023[a] | |
| Prime Minister | Ana Brnabić |
| Preceded by | Anđelka Atanasković |
| Succeeded by | Siniša Mali (acting) Slobodan Cvetković |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 1 August 2022 – 25 October 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 February 1979 Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  FR Yugoslavia |
| Branch/service | Army of FR Yugoslavia |
| Years of service | 1998–1999 |
| Battles/wars | Kosovo War |
Rade Basta (Serbian Cyrillic: Раде Баста; born 21 February 1979) is a Serbian politician who served as minister of economy from 2022 to 2023. A former member of United Serbia (JS), he served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from August to October 2022.
Born in Novi Sad, he graduated from the University of Novi Sad in 2002. He was an advisor to Srđan Kružević during his tenure as the director of Elektrovojvodina, a deputy provincial secretary for energy, and briefly a member of the City Assembly of Novi Sad in 2016. As of 2018, he has been the president of Belgrade Power Plants, a public communal company. He was an associate during Goran Vesić's tenure as deputy mayor of Belgrade. He is a supporter of nuclear power while he also argued that Serbia should establish a scientific-research center for nuclear technologies with the United States and European Union, and that Serbia should build a nuclear power plant.
Basta was appointed minister of economy in the third cabinet of Ana Brnabić in October 2022. Since then, Basta has openly supported introducing sanctions against Russia, which was met with backlash from JS and the Socialist Party of Serbia, and has supported the mass protests that began in May 2023. He was dismissed from JS and the government in June 2023. Soon after, he formed the European Way Movement.
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