Jelisaveta Veljković
Jelisaveta Veljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелисавета Вељковић; 1951 – 12 January 2023)[1] was a politician from Serbia. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia on an almost continuous basis since 2014 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS), until her death.
Private career[edit]
Veljković was a retired teacher living in Sremski Karlovci, Vojvodina.[2]
Political career[edit]
The PUPS contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election on an electoral list led by the Socialist Party of Serbia. Veljković received the thirty-ninth position on the list and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.[3] The PUPS did not participate in Serbia's government during the parliament that followed but provided external support to the government in the assembly.
For the 2016 parliamentary election, the PUPS formed a new alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party, and Veljković received the 231st position (out of 250) on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list.[4] This was too low a position for direct election to be a realistic prospect, and she was not initially elected even as the list won a majority victory with 131 mandates. She did, however, receive a new mandate on 21 April 2017 as a replacement for Konstantin Arsenović, who had died in January of that year.[5][6] The PUPS was by this time part of Serbia's coalition government, and Veljković again served as a government supporter in the assembly.
She received the 129th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[7] and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She was a member of the committee on the rights of the child and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Fiji, Finland, Italy, Japan, Russia, and Switzerland.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Telegraf.rs (12 January 2023). "Preminula narodna poslanica Jelisaveta Veljković" [People's deputy Jelisaveta Veljković passed away] (in Serbian). Direktno.rs.
- ^ JELISAVETA VELjKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 12 July 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народног посланика ради попуне упражњеног посланичког места у Народној скупштини од 21. априла 2017. године) Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 12 July 2018. 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.
- ^ "Novi poslanici iz SNS, DS, SRS i PUPS položili zakletvu", B92, 21 April 2017, accessed 12 July 2018.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ JELISAVETA VELjKOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 January 2021.