Jelisaveta Veljković

Jelisaveta Veljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелисавета Вељковић; born 1951) is a politician in Serbia. She is currently serving her second term in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).

Private career

Veljković is a retired teacher living in Sremski Karlovci, Vojvodina.[1]

Political career

The PUPS contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election on an electoral list led by the Socialist Party of Serbia. Veljković received the thirty-ninth position on the list and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.[2] The PUPS was not part of Serbia's government during the parliament that followed, but the party provided external support to the government in the assembly.

For the 2016 parliamentary election, the PUPS formed a new alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party, and Veljković received the 231st position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list.[3]. This was too low a position for direct election to be a realistic prospect, and indeed she was not initially elected, even though the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates. She did, however, receive a new mandate on 21 April 2017 as a replacement for PUPS deputy Konstantin Arsenović, who had died in January of that year.[4][5] The PUPS currently serves in Serbia's coalition government, and Veljković again serves as a government supporter in the assembly.

References

  1. ↑ JELISAVETA VELjKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 12 July 2018.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Додела мандата (Одлука о додели мандата народног посланика ради попуне упражњеног посланичког места у Народној скупштини од 21. априла 2017. године), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 12 July 2018. 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. ↑ "Novi poslanici iz SNS, DS, SRS i PUPS položili zakletvu", B92, 21 April 2017, accessed 12 July 2018.
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