Dušica Stojković

Dušica Stojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Душица Стојковић; born 6 August 1979) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Stojković was born in Belgrade, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences in the department of international relations; has co-ordinated local non-government organizations in the fields of democracy, human rights, youth policy, and entrepreneurship; and has been head of the information service in the Belgrade municipality of Rakovica.[1]

Political career

Stojković joined the Progressive Party on its formation in 2009. She received the seventy-second position on the party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[2] She was promoted to the thirty-ninth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Serbia is winning list for the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[3]

She is currently a member of the assembly's European integration committee and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee; a deputy member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association parliamentary committee; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, and the United States of America.[4]

Stojković also sought election to the Assembly of the City of Belgrade in the 2014 local election, appearing in the thirteenth position on its list.[5] The list won a majority victory with sixty-three seats. She ultimately did not serve, instead taking a seat in the National Assembly.

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