Jelisaveta Veljković ( sr-Cyrl, Јелисавета Вељковић; 1951 – 12 January 2023) was a politician from

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. She served in the

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on an almost continuous basis since 2014 as a member of the

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(PUPS), until her death.

Private career

Veljković was a retired teacher living in

Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-Cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka Districtautonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danube, from Novi Sad. According to the 202 ...

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Political career

The PUPS contested the

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on an

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led by the

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. Veljković received the thirty-ninth position on the list and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates. The PUPS did not participate in Serbia's government during the parliament that followed but provided external support to the government in the assembly. For the 2016 parliamentary election, the PUPS formed a new alliance with the

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, and Veljković received the 231st position (out of 250) on the Progressive-led ''

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– Serbia Is Winning'' list. This was too low a position for direct election to be a realistic prospect, and she was not initially elected even as the list won a majority victory with 131 mandates. She did, however, receive a new mandate on 21 April 2017 as a replacement for Konstantin Arsenović, who had died in January of that year. The PUPS was by this time part of Serbia's

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, and Veljković again served as a government supporter in the assembly. She received the 129th position on the Progressive Party's ''

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'' coalition list in the

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and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She was a member of the committee on the rights of the child and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the

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–Serbia stabilization and association committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and

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.JELISAVETA VELjKOVIC
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 January 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Veljkovic, Jelisaveta 1951 births Living people People from Sremski Karlovci 21st-century Serbian women politicians 21st-century Serbian politicians Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Party of United Pensioners of Serbia politicians Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Politicians of Vojvodina