Vera Jovanović

Vera Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Вера Јовановић; born 1947) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since April 2017 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Jovanović was born in Belgrade, then part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She is an economist in the city.[1]

Political career

Before her election to the National Assembly, Jovanović was a member of the municipal assembly in Rakovica, Belgrade.[2] She served on the community's employment council[3] and was the leader of its women's union.[4]

Jovanović received the 192nd position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] This was too low a position for election to be a reasonable prospect, and indeed she was not elected despite the list winning a majority with 158 out of 250 seats.

She was promoted to the 138th position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning for the 2016 election.[6] The list received 131 mandates, and she was once again not originally elected. She was, however, able to take her seat in the assembly on April 21, 2017, as a replacement for Marko Blagojević, who had resigned to take an ambassadorial position.[7]

Jovanović is a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Belarus, China, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Russia, and Spain.[8]

References
  1. VERA JOVANOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 August 2017.
  2. Паљење бадњака у Реснику, rakovica.rs/, 6 January 2016.
  3. СКУПШТИНСКА ТЕЛА СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ РАКОВИЦА, undated (presumably September 2012), accessed 18 August 2017.
  4. МИНИСТАР КУЛТУРЕ У ПОСЕТИ РАКОВИЧКИМ НАПРЕДЊАЦИМА, Serbian Progressive Party, 20 March 2016, accessed 18 August 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  6. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  7. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Додела мандата, Одлука о додели мандата народног посланика ради попуне упражњеног посланичког места у Народној скупштини од 21. априла 2017. године], Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 August 2017.
  8. VERA JOVANOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 August 2017.
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