Biljana Dragić

Biljana Dragić ( sr-cyr, Биљана Драгић; born 1984) is a Serbian politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2022 to 2024, initially as a member of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) and later as an independent.

Private career

Dragić is from the village of Kljajićevo in Sombor. She holds a bachelor's degree in general chemistry.

Politician

Dragić appeared in the 235th position out of 250 on the POKS's ''For the Kingdom of Serbia'' electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. Election from this position was not a realistic prospect, and in any event the list failed to cross the electoral threshold for representation in the national assembly.

The POKS split into two rival factions in late 2021, respectively led by Vojislav Mihailović and Žika Gojković. For a period of several months, both groups claimed to be the legitimately constituted party. Dragić sided with Gojković's faction.

Parliamentarian

Gojković's organization had the legal right to use the POKS name in the 2022 parliamentary election, which it contested in an alliance with Dveri. Dragić received the fourth position on their combined list and was elected when it won ten mandates, four of which went to POKS candidates. Soon after the election, Gojković's faction lost the rights to the name when Mihailović was officially recognized as the party's leader.

In August 2022, Gojković and Dragić, along with a third member of their group, voted for Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) candidate Vladimir Orlić to become the new president of the national assembly. The fourth ex-POKS member, Miloš Parandilović, voted against Orlić and ended his association with Gojković. Parandilović later accused Dragić of breaking a promise to resign after the first session of parliament to permit another candidate to enter the assembly in her place.

During her assembly term, Dragić was a member of the committee on the rights of the child and the parliamentary friendship groups with Canada, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia. Along with Gojković, she served in an assembly group with members of the Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP), the United Peasant Party (USS), and the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV).BILJANA DRAGIC
, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 July 2023. She did not seek re-election in 2024.

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1984 births
21st-century Serbian women politicians
21st-century Serbian politicians
Independent politicians in Serbia
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia politicians
Politicians from Sombor