Mirjana Dragaš

Mirjana Dragaš (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана Драгаш; born June 6, 1950) is a politician in Serbia. She is currently serving her third term in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Early life and career

Dragaš was born in Belgrade, then part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of sociology and is administrator of the Dositej Obradović Foundation.[1] Between 1998 and 2000, she was the deputy minister of labour, health, and social security in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[2] Dragaš is the president of the social policy council of the Socialist Party and has served on the party's executive board and women's forum.[3]

Parliamentarian

Dragaš received the twenty-first position on a coalition electoral list led by the Socialist Party in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.[4] She received the forty-fifth position on the list in the 2014 election and, as the list once again won forty-four mandates, narrowly missed direct re-election.[5] She was, however, awarded a mandate on May 10, 2014, as a replacement for party leader Ivica Dačić, who had resigned to take a cabinet position.[6] During this sitting of the assembly, she served as deputy chair of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction.[7]

She received the thirty-ninth list position in the 2016 parliamentary election; as the Socialist-led list won twenty-nine mandates, she once again missed direct election. She was able to take her seat on October 12, 2017, as a replacement for Ivan Karić, who had resigned.[8] The Socialist Party has been part of Serbia's coalition government since 2008, and Dragaš has been part of the government's parliamentary majority throughout her time in the assembly.

References
  1. "Koliko nas je zadužio Dositej Obradović?", Radio-Television of Serbia, 23 May 2016, accessed 18 October 2017.
  2. "EUROPEAN COUNCIL DELEGATION FOR REFUGEES VISITS BELGRADE," Tanjug, 3 February 1998; "COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2488/2000," Official Journal of the European Communities, 14 November 2000, L 287/22.
  3. MIRJANA DRAGAŠ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 October 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)") Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)") Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  6. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 10. маја 2014. године) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 October 2017.
  7. "U potpunosti konstituisan Odbor za rad i socijalna pitanja", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 29 May 2014, accessed 18 October 2017.
  8. "Tri nova poslanika položila zakletvu", N1, 12 October 2017, accessed 17 October 2017. Serbia's 2011 electoral law stipulates that, in the event of the resignation of a member elected on a coalition list, the vacant mandate will fall to the next candidate on the list from the same party; see Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Article 92) made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017. Karić is leader of the Greens of Serbia, but the electoral commission's report on the assigning of Karić's vacant mandate notes that he was technically elected as a candidate of the Socialist Party. See Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 12. октобра 2017. године) Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 18 October 2017.
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