Biljana Pantić Pilja
Biljana Pantić Pilja (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Пантић Пиља; born May 11, 1983), formerly known as Biljana Pantić, is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career
Pantić Pilja has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law. She is a lawyer by profession and is based in Novi Sad.[1]
Political career
Pantić Pilja was given the sixtieth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won seventy-three mandates, and she was accordingly elected. After the election, the Progressive Party formed a new coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and other parties; Pantić Pilja served as part of its parliamentary majority. She was promoted to the thirty-sixth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list for the 2014 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[3] In the 2016, she received the eighteenth position on the Progressive Party's list and was re-elected when it won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[4]
She is currently the deputy chair of the assembly committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a member of the European integration committee; a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; the head of the parliamentary friendship group with Cyprus; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States of America.[5]
Pantić Pilja is also a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where she sits with the European People's Party group; is a member of the committee on equality and non-discrimination and the committee on migration, refugees, and displaced persons; and an alternate member of the committee on the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights.[6]
References
- ↑ BILJANA PANTIĆ PILJA, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 May 2018.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ↑ BILJANA PANTIC PILJA, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 11 May 2018.
- ↑ Biljana PANTIĆ PILJA, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 11 May 2018.