Dragoljub Simonović (politician)

Dragoljub Simonović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Симоновић; born 8 July 1959) is a Serbian former politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2004 to 2008, served three terms as mayor of the Belgrade municipality of Grocka, and was the chair of Serbian Railways from 2012 to 2014. Originally a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party, he joined the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party on its formation in 2008. In February 2021, he was convicted of inciting an arson attack that resulted in serious damage to the home of an opposition journalist. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison in March 2023.