Aleksandra Ilić ( sr-Cyrl, Александра Илић; born 30 March 1981), formerly known as Aleksandra Šarović ( sr-Cyrl, Александра Шаровић), is a politician in

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. She served in the

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from 2008 to 2012 as a member of New Serbia (''Nova Srbija'', NS).

Early life and career

Ilić was born in

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, in what was then the

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in the

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. She graduated from

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's Music Academy in the department of instrumental piano and taught at the Josip Marinković Music School in Belgrade before entering political life.

Politician

New Serbia contested the

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in an alliance with the

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(''Demokratska stranka Srbije'', DSS), and Ilić received the 155th position on the combined

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of the parties. The list won thirty mandates, nine of which were assigned to New Serbia, and she was included in her party's delegation when the new assembly convened. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Ilić's specific position on the list had no formal bearing on her chances of election.) The results of the election were inconclusive, but the ''

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'' alliance eventually formed a

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with the

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(''Socijalistička partija Srbije'', SPS), and New Serbia served in

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. Ilić was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and the

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. She was given the sixth position on a combined DSS–NS list for the

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municipal assembly in a special off-year election held in December 2009. The list won six seats, and Ilić did not take a seat in the assembly. New Serbia subsequently ended its alliance with the DSS and became part of the coalition around the Serbian Progressive Party (''Srpska napredna stranka'', SNS). In an unrelated development, Serbia reformed its electoral laws in 2011 such that mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Ilić did not seek re-election at the republic level in 2012, but she was given the twelfth position on the SNS's list for the Voždovac municipal assembly in the 2013 local elections. The list won a majority victory with thirty-six out of fifty-five mandates; Ilić was elected and served for the next three years. She was not a candidate for re-election in 2016. Ilić married

Nemanja Šarović Nemanja Šarović ( sr-Cyrl, Немања Шаровић; born 28 December 1974) is a Serbian politician and journalist. He served several terms in the National Assembly as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Šarović left the ...

of the far-right

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(''Srpska radikalna stranka'', SRS) in 2011. They divorced in 2013, in part due to political differences."RAZVODE SE RADIKAL NEMANJA ŠAROVIĆ I ALEKSANDRA ILIĆ IZ NOVE SRBIJE"
''Vesti'', 28 May 2013, accessed 7 December 2021. Ilić was known as Aleksandra Šarović during the time that they were married.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ilic, Aleksandra 1981 births Living people People from Užice Politicians from Belgrade Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) New Serbia politicians Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)