Olivera Pešić

Olivera Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Пешић; born 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

Pešić is a graduate economist based in Leskovac. She has been the deputy director of the municipality's economic development agency and the leader of a local team charged with ensuring recertification as a favourable business environment.^[1]

Political career

Pešić has been the leader of the Progressive Party's group in the Leskovac municipal assembly.^[2]

She was given the seventy-eighth position on the Progressive 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.^[3] She was subsequently promoted to the fifty-seventh position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.^[4] Pešić is currently a member of the assembly committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the European integration committee and the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Spain.^[5]

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