Jelena Mijatović

Jelena Mijatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Мијатовић; born June 2, 1977) 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

Mijatović is a kindergarten teacher based in Belgrade.^[1]

Political career

Mijatović received the forty-second position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.^[2] The Progressive Party became the dominant party in a new coalition government after the election, and Mijatović served as part of its parliamentary majority. She was promoted to the thirty-third position on the Progressive-led list in the 2014 election and the twenty-seventh position in 2016 election and was re-elected on both occasions when the list won majority victories.^[3][4]

Mijatović is currently a member of the assembly committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a member of the committee on Kosovo-Metohija; a member of the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Turkmenistan; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Israel, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Palestine, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States of America.^[5]

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