Jasmina Palurović ( sr-Cyrl, Јасмина Палуровић; born 5 June 1972) is a politician in Serbia. She has served as

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Kruševac Kruševac ( sr-cyr, Крушевац, , tr, Alacahisar or Kruşevca) is a city and the administrative center of the Rasina District in central Serbia. It is located in the valley of West Morava, on Rasina river. According to the 2011 census, t ...

since 2017 and also briefly served in the

National Assembly of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are proportionally elected to four-year terms by secret ballot. The as ...

in August 2020. Palurović is a member of the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012. Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...

Early life and career

Palurović was born in Kruševac, in what was then the

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in the

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. She graduated from the technical faculty at the

University of Kragujevac The University of Kragujevac ( sr, Универзитет у Крагујевцу, Univerzitet u Kragujevcu) is a public university in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is the oldest and the largest higher education institution in Šumadija and Western Ser ...

Čačak Čačak ( sr-Cyrl, Чачак, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Moravica District in central Serbia. It is located in the West Morava Valley within the geographical region of Šumadija. , the city proper has 73,331 inhabitants, wh ...

and worked in the production sector before entering political life.

Politician

Municipal politics

Palurović received the eighteenth position on the Progressive Party's

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for the Kruševac municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won eighteen mandates. She was appointed as deputy mayor in 2014 and served in the role for the next two years. Palurović was promoted to the third position on the Progressive list in the 2016 elections and was re-elected when the list won a landslide majority victory with fifty-two of seventy seats. She served as president (i.e., speaker) of the city assembly from 2016 to 2017. On 25 December 2017, Palurović was elected by the assembly as Kruševac's new mayor, replacing Dragi Nestorović, who had died in office. She led the party's list in the 2020 local elections and was re-elected when the list again won fifty-two mandates. Shortly after the election, she inaugurated a statue of Medieval Serbian leader

Stefan Lazarević Stefan Lazarević ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Лазаревић, 1377 – 19 July 1427), also known as Stefan the Tall ( sr, Стефан Високи / ''Stefan Visoki''), was the ruler of Serbia as prince (1389–1402) and despot (1402–1427), ...

, who hailed from the Kruševac. She was appointed to a new term as mayor on 18 August 2020.

Parliamentarian

Palurović received the forty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She resigned from the assembly on 20 August 2020 as she could not hold a

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as mayor.Current Legislature
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 December 2020.

References

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