Vesna Bratić (; born 25 May 1977 in

Trebinje Trebinje ( sr-Cyrl, Требиње, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of Trebišnjica river in the re ...

) is a Montenegrin politician.

Biography

Early life and academic career

Vesna Bratić was born on 25 May 1977 to a Herzegovinian Serb family in

which at that time was a part of the

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yug ...

. She finished middle and high school in

Bileća Bileća ( sr-cyrl, Билећа) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 7,476 inhabitants, while the municipality has 10,807 inhabitants. History ...

and graduated in 2000 at the Department of English Language and Literature at the

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at the

University of Montenegro The University of Montenegro ( cnr, Универзитет Црнe Горe / Univerzitet Crne Gore) is a national public university of Montenegro. Its central administration and majority of constitutive faculties are located in the country's cap ...

Nikšić Nikšić ( cnr, Никшић, italic=no, sr-cyrl, Никшић, italic=no; ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 56,970 located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot ...

. She was employed as a teaching associate at the Institute of Foreign Languages in 2003. She received her master's degree in 2007 from the Faculty of Philology at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

, with a thesis in which she developed a comparative analysis of the narrative process of

Aleksandar Tišma Aleksandar Tišma ( sr-cyr, Александар Тишма; 16 January 1924 – 15 February 2003) was a Serbian novelist. Biography Tišma was born in Horgoš, Kanjiža on the present-day border of Serbia and Hungary, to a Serbian father and a ...

and

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. She received her

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from the same faculty in 2012 with the thesis "''Images of America in the Works of Sam Shepard and David Memet''". In 2013, she was elected assistant professor at the

. She was elected associate professor in 2018. In parallel, she teaches English at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Montenegrin capital

Podgorica Podgorica (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Подгорица, ; Literal translation, lit. 'under the hill') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Montenegro, largest city of Montenegro. The city was formerly known as Titograd ...

, at the same university. She received

Montenegrin citizenship Citizenship of Montenegro is the citizenship of Montenegro. It is regulated by a citizenship law, ratified by Parliament in 2008 and published by the ''Official Journal of Montenegro'' (No. 13/2008). It is mainly based on '' jus sanguinis''. Ther ...

in 2012.

Political career

She was one of the founders of the non-governmental organization " We won't give up Montenegro" (Не дамо Црну Гору / Ne damo Crnu Goru), which was founded in July 2020 by university professors in Montenegro and headed by

Zdravko Krivokapić Zdravko Krivokapić ( cyrl, Здравко Кривокапић; born 2 September 1958) is a Montenegrin professor and politician who served as Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2020 to 2022. In addition to his professorship at the Universities ...

. She succeeded Krivokapic as president of the NGO, after he was elected leader of the opposition list for the August 2020 parliamentary election. On 4 December 2020, the

Parliament of Montenegro The Parliament of Montenegro ( cg, Скупштина Црне Горе, Skupština Crne Gore) is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, with each member elected to a four-year term. Following the 2006 ...

elected her Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports in the

Government of Montenegro The Government of Montenegro ( cnr, Vlada Crne Gore, Влада Црне Горе) is the executive branch of state authority in Montenegro. It is headed by the prime minister. It consists of the prime minister, the deputy prime ministers as well ...

and the

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of Zdravko Krivokapić.

Political views and controversies

Vesna Bratić is a self-declared

Serbian nationalist Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. It is an ethnic nationalism, originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, und ...

: Because of an article of the

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n journalist

Boris Dežulović Boris Dežulović (born 20 November 1964) is a Croatian journalist, writer and columnist, best known as one of the founders of the now defunct satirical magazine ''Feral Tribune''. Biography Dežulović studied art history at the University of S ...

called "Let's save Serbian shrines", Vesna Bratić called him "a citizen, a quasi-leftist" and " Ustasha garbage". She was also the target of criticism after she posted a photo on her Facebook profile with the description: "Woman is a woman, even when she is a

Chetnik The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...

References

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