Vera Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Вера Јовановић; born 1947) is a politician in

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. She served in the

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from 2017 to 2020 as a member of the

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Early life and career

Jovanović was born in

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, in what was then the

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in the

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. She is an economist.

Politician

Municipal politics

Jovanović received the eighteenth position on the Progressive Party's '' Let's Get Rakovica Moving''

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for the 2012 local elections in the Belgrade municipality of Rakovica. She narrowly missed direct election when the list won seventeen seats but was awarded a mandate on 5 July 2012 as the replacement for another party member. She served on the municipality's employment council in the term that followed. She was not a candidate for re-election at the local level in 2016.

Parliamentarian

Jovanović received the 192nd position on the Progressive Party's ''

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— Future We Believe In'' list for the

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. This was too low a position for election to be a reasonable prospect, and she was not elected despite the list winning a majority victory with 158 out of 250 seats. She was promoted to the 138th position on the successor ''Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning'' for the 2016 election. The list won 131 mandates, and she was again not initially elected. She received a mandate on 21 April 2017 as a replacement for Marko Blagojević, who had resigned to take an ambassadorial position. During the 2016–20 parliament, Jovanović was a member of the

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integration committee; a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and

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. Jovanović was given the 219th position on the Progressive Party's ''

Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop (, AV–SNSDS), commonly shortened to just Serbia Must Not Stop, is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of Serbia, led by the Serbian Progressive Party. SNS gained its parliamentary status ...

'' list and was not re-elected even as the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates."Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?"
''Danas'', 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. It is possible, though unlikely, that she could re-enter parliament as the replacement for another Progressive Party member in the current term of the assembly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jovanovic, Vera 1947 births Living people Politicians from Belgrade 21st-century Serbian women politicians Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Serbian Progressive Party politicians Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)