Olja Petrović (politician)
Olja Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Оља Петровић; born 5 December 1990) is a Serbian politician. She was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career[edit]
Petrović was born in Pirot, Republic of Serbia, in what was then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a master of laws degree.[1]
Politician[edit]
Municipal politics[edit]
Petrović was appointed as a member of Pirot's city council (i.e., the executive branch of the city government) as a Progressive Party representative in 2018, serving in the role until 2020. She also was a participant in the party's Academy of Young Leaders program during this time.[2][3][4] She was given the fourth position on the party's electoral list for the Pirot municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections[5] and was elected when the list won a majority victory with thirty-six mandates.[6]
Parliamentarian[edit]
Petrović was given the twelfth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[7] This was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now a member of the assembly committee on constitutional and legislative issues and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the environmental protection committee; a deputy member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Greece, Mexico, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal, Russia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ OLJA PETROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Usvojena odluka o Budžetu za prvih 6 meseci. Priprema se novi Prostorni plan i Katastar za 2019. godinu. Olja Petrović-SNS novi član Gradskog veća Pirot. Bratislav Ćirić direktor JP Toplana, Slaviša Svilarov Direktor JP za planiranje i uređivanje građevi", pirot.rs, September 2018, accessed 1 July 2020.
- ^ Gradsko veće, pirot.rs, accessed 1 July 2020.
- ^ "Počelo prikupljanje potpisa za podršku izbornoj listi 'Aleksandar Vučić-za našu decu'," Pirotske Vesti, 4 March 2020, accessed 1 July 2020.
- ^ Збирна изборна листа (Archived 2020-10-25 at the Wayback Machine), City of Pirot, accessed 4 December 2020.
- ^ J.A. & Lj.F., "U Pirotu izlaznost 55 %, najviše glasova za SNS, još 5 lista prešlo cenzus", Južne vesti, 22 June 2020, accessed 4 December 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ OLjA PETROVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 4 December 2020.