Jasmina Karanac

Karanac was born in Čačak, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Agriculture.

Karanac worked for TV Čačak in the 1990s and hosted the program TV Parlament, which featured regular appearances by prominent opponents of Slobodan Milošević's administration. She joined B92 in August 2001 as a news editor and reporter, also producing documentaries on the deaths of Ivan Stambolić and Slavko Ćuruvija.[1]

The SDPS contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Serbian Progressive Party's coalition Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list. Karanac was nominated to the sixtieth position on the list;[2] she initially identified as a non-partisan candidate aligned with the SDPS,[3] although she apparently joined the party at some point thereafter.[4] She was elected when the list won a majority with 131 out of 250 seats.

Karanac is a member of the parliamentary environmental protection committee and the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[5] In early 2017, she was one of nine parliamentarians who took part in a working visit to America to study the country's political culture.[6] In May of the same year, she was chosen as president of the SDPS's election staff for the upcoming municipal campaign in Belgrade.[7]