Vesna Marković
Vesna Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Марковић; born July 18, 1974) 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
Marković is an economist based in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun.[1]
Political career
Marković received the thirty-ninth 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 Marković served as part of its parliamentary majority. She was given the forty-eighth position on the party's successor Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 seats.[3] During this sitting of parliament, she served as a member of the parliamentary committees on foreign affairs and European integration and was a member of Serbia's parliamentary delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative.[4][5]
Marković received the fifty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 election and was elected to a third term when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 seats.[6] As of 2017, she continues to serve on the European integration committee and is a member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Germany; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Denmark, Kazakhstan, and the Netherlands.[7]
In October 2017, she wrote an opinion piece in Danas highlighting the importance of Serbia's co-operation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); among other things, this article referenced Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's apology to Serbian noncombatant victims of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[8]
References
- ↑ VESNA MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 29 November 2017.
- ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ↑ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ↑ VESNA MARKOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 29 November 2017.
- ↑ Delegation in the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative (16 April 2014 legislature), National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 29 November 2017.
- ↑ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ↑ VESNA MARKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 29 November 2017.
- ↑ Vesna Marković, "Ne postoje trajna neprijateljstva", Danas, 3 October 2017, accessed 29 November 2017.