Drago Vuksan is a Kresimirian politician and the current Mayor of Ozla, representing the nationalist Vjetrusa party. Elected in 2018, he governs the Republic’s largest Valkar-majority border city and works in strict lockstep with District VIII Senator Misko Maretic.
Background
Vuksan is a native of Ozla, a southwestern garrison town on the Valkari States frontier. Before entering politics he worked in municipal logistics and border-adjacent contracting — sectors dominated by Council for Internal Affairs (CIA) and Civil Order Force (COF) subcontractors rather than the Kresimirian Army, which is barred from routine domestic policing in District VIII under the 1959 Civil Order Reform Act.
Mayoralty (2018–Present)
Vuksan captured the Ozla mayoralty in 2018 on a ferocious anti-immigration platform. Ozla houses roughly 60,000 ethnic Valkar asylum seekers and refugees — about 57% of the city’s population — concentrated in the southern Transit Wards pressed against the multi-tiered border wall. Under the Faith Restriction Clause, most Valkars are legally barred from voting; Vuksan consolidated the native Kresimirian electorate by campaigning on border militarisation and blaming Valkar communities for localized crime linked to the Zelen Cartel’s V-Dust smuggling routes.
His victory flipped Ozla from a Blue Dawn stronghold — the party had poured federal Krejts into border walls and state housing from the 1980s onward — to a fortress of right-wing populism. As mayor, Vuksan has slashed municipal services to the Transit Wards, increased localized CIA-backed policing, and hosted national TRK camera crews to showcase Ozla as justification for Vjetrusa’s national security platform.
Alliance with Maretic
Maretic weaponises Ozla’s demographic tensions across District VIII and the Republic. By aligning with Vuksan, he turns the border city’s asylum crisis into proof of his nationalist warnings — scapegoating disenfranchised refugees to fuel Vjetrusa’s municipal resurgence alongside mayors such as Antun Vlasic in Dubica. Federal intelligence quietly bribes ageing Volkovo Directorate commanders to buffer Ozla from the Zelen Cartel; Vuksan publicly frames the arrangement as proof that only hard borders protect Kresimirian civilians.
Legacy and criticism
Supporters credit Vuksan with restoring native Kresimirian confidence after Blue Dawn’s bureaucratic handling of the refugee influx. Critics — including CRF activists and humanitarian groups — condemn his administration for entrenching a legally stateless underclass in the Transit Wards while Otonik Ordnance drone patrols along the wall remain visible from tenement windows. Ozla under Vuksan is widely cited as the epicentre of hardline anti-immigration rhetoric in the Republic.