Sonja Todorović
Sonja Todorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Соња Тодоровић; born 6 July 1976) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the local government of Temerin and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 parliamentary election. Todorović is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career[edit]
Todorović has a bachelor's degree (2002) and a master's degree (2011) in agricultural sciences from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Agriculture.[1] She lives in Temerin, in the province of Vojvodina.[2]
Politician[edit]
Municipal politics[edit]
Todorović first served on the Temerin municipal council (i.e., the executive branch of the municipal government) with responsibility for agriculture from 2004 to 2008.[3] She appears to have been a non-party representative in government during this time.
She was subsequently elected to the Temerin municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections; she received the third position on the Progressive Party's electoral list and was elected when the list won five mandates out of thirty-three.[4][5] This election produced an extremely divided assembly; no other list won more than four mandates, and the Progressives ultimately became a part of a local coalition government. Todorović was re-appointed to the municipal council in October 2014 with responsibility for ecology. In March 2015, she was appointed to a second term in the agriculture portfolio.[6]
She was again given the third position on the Progressive list in the 2016 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventeen mandates.[7] After the election, she was again appointed to council with responsibility for agriculture.[8] In November 2016, she was given additional responsibilities as assistant mayor.[9] She was not a candidate for re-election at the local level in 2020.
Parliamentarian[edit]
Todorović received the 213th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election. This was too low a position for election to be a realistic prospect, and she was not elected even as the list won a majority victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[10]
She was given the 138th position on the party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[11] and was elected to the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now a member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the health and family committee and the environmental protection committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Brazil, China, Chile, Cuba, Cyprus, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, and Tunisia.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ ЧЛАНОВИ/ИЦЕ ОПШТИНСКОГ ВЕЋА Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Temerin, accessed 21 August 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ ЧЛАНОВИ/ИЦЕ ОПШТИНСКОГ ВЕЋА Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Temerin, accessed 21 August 2020.
- ^ Službeni List, Volume 45 Number 2 (25 April 2012), Municipality of Temerin, p. 15.
- ^ Službeni List, Volume 45 Number 6 (24 July 2012), Municipality of Temerin, p. 2.
- ^ ЧЛАНОВИ/ИЦЕ ОПШТИНСКОГ ВЕЋА Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Temerin, accessed 21 August 2020.
- ^ Službeni List, Volume 49 Number 13 (8 June 2016), p. 1.
- ^ М. Милојевић, "Ђуро Жига на челу Темерина", Dnevnik, 9 June 2016, accessed 21 August 2020.
- ^ Službeni List, Volume 49 Number 26 (24 November 2016), Municipality of Temerin, p. 1.
- ^ 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 18 August 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ SONjA TODOROVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.