Grozdana Banac

Grozdana Banac (Serbian Cyrillic: Гроздана Банац; born July 9, 1951) is a politician in Serbia, currently serving her second term in the National Assembly of Serbia. Banac is a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia.

Early life and career

Banac is a retired lawyer. She has led the United Pensioners party organization in Voždovac, Belgrade; was a candidate in local elections in the same municipality in 2008; and has served as the president of Belgrade's Emergency Management Board.[1]

Parliamentarian

The United Pensioners contested the 2012 and 2014 Serbian parliamentary elections as allies of the Socialist Party of Serbia, and Banac received the seventy-eighth position on the Socialist-led electoral list in 2012.[2] The list received forty-four mandates, and she was not elected.

She was promoted to the forty-sixth position for the 2014 election and was again not initially elected when the list, for the second consecutive time, won forty-four mandates.[3] She became a member of the National Assembly for the first time on May 10, 2014, as a replacement for party leader Jovan Krkobabić, who had died on April 22.[4] The United Pensioners supported the coalition government of Aleksandar Vučić, and Banac served until 2016 as part of the administration's parliamentary majority.

The United Pensioners contested the 2016 election as part of the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list. Banac received the 234th position on the list, too low a position for direct election to be a realistic possibility. Once again not immediately elected, she was able to re-enter the assembly on August 28, 2017, as a replacement for Miroljub Stanković, who had died on August 25.[5] She now serves as part of the parliamentary majority for Ana Brnabić's coalition government, of which the United Pensioners are members.

References

  1. ↑ "МИЛАН КРКОБАБИЋ: СМС ПОРУКА МОЖЕ ДА СПАСИ ЖИВОТ", Party of United Pensions of Serbia, 7 March 2012, accessed 23 September 2017; GROZDANA BANAC, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 23 September 2017.
  2. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  3. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА; Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 10. маја 2014. године, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 23 September 2017. Serbia's 2011 electoral law stipulates that, in the event of the resignation of a member elected on a coalition list, the vacant mandate will fall to the next candidate on the list from the same party. See Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Article 92) made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "RIK dodelio dva mandata", B92 (source: Tanjug), 28 August 2017, accessed 23 September 2017.
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