Aleksandra Tomić

Aleksandra Tomić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александра Томић; born April 26, 1969) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Tomić was born in Vranje, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the private Alfa University in Belgrade, and is an associate professor at Alfa University and Belgrade's College of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship. Tomiċ worked for GP Javor from 1997 to 2010 and was subsequently director for the federal institute Plov put and an advisor with the company Srbijavode.[1]

Political career

Tomić was a member of the municipal assembly of the Belgrade municipality of Zvezdara from 2000 to 2008. She also served as president of the municipal assembly's executive committee from 2000 to 2001, served on the executive committee from 2001 to 2004, and was a member of the municipal council from 2005 to 2008.[2] During this period, she was a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS).[3]

She subsequently joined the Progressive Party and received the fifty-fourth position on its Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. She was elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.[4] The Progressives formed a new coalition government after the election with the Socialist Party of Serbia and other parties, and Tomić served as a supporter of the government in the assembly. She was promoted to the ninth position on the Progressive-led list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was re-elected when it won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[5] For the 2016 election, she was further promoted to the sixth position and was elected to a third term when the list won 131 mandates.[6]

Tomić is currently the chair of the assembly's committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending[7]; the deputy chair of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association parliamentary committee; the head of the parliamentary friendship group with Italy; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.[8]

On 24 November 2017, Tomić was appointed as the head of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), replacing Aleksandra Đurović. She is a full member of PACE's committee on legal affairs and human rights, the committee on political affairs and democracy, the monitoring committee on the honouring of obligations and commitments by member states of the Council of Europe, the sub-committee on human rights, and the sub-committee on relations with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). She serves with the European People's Party (EPP) group.[9] In April 2018, she urged European institutions to condemn the recent arrest of Marko Đurić by Kosovo authorities and the concurrent assault on some Kosovo Serbs by members of the Kosovo Police at a political meeting in North Mitrovica.[10]

References

  1. ↑ ALEKSANDRA TOMIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 July 2018.
  2. ↑ ALEKSANDRA TOMIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "PSS protiv DSS-a preko leđa dece", Glas javnosti, 14 May 2005, accessed 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 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. ↑ Mirjana Čekerevac, "Aleksandra Tomić vodi Odbor za finansije", Politika, 14 July 2016, accessed 10 July 2018.
  8. ↑ ALEKSANDRA Dr TOMIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Aleksandra TOMIĆ, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 10 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Tomić: Izostanak reakcije tela SE", Danas, 4 April 2018, accessed 10 July 2018.
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