Tanja Tomašević Damnjanović ( sr-Cyrl, Тања Томашевић Дамњановић; born 1982) is a politician in

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. She has served in the

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since 2014 as a member of the

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Private career

Tomašević Damnjanović has a

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degree. She lives in

Vršac Vršac ( sr-Cyrl, Вршац, ) is a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2022, the city urban area had a population of 31,946, while the city administrative area had 45,462 inhabitants. It is located in the geographical ...

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Political career

Tomašević Damnjanović received the 123rd position on the Progressive Party's ''

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— Future We Believe In''

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for the

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and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates. During her first term in parliament, she was the deputy chair of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government, and was a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the

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(where Serbia has observer status). She also participated in a regional forum on judicial reform held in

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, in June 2015, in which she advocated for Serbia's national strategy for improving the independence of the judiciary. She was promoted to the seventy-fifth position on the successor ''

— Serbia is winning'' list for the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates. She is currently a member of the assembly's committee on

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; a deputy member of the

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integration committee, the environmental protection committee, and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and the

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.TANJA TOMASEVIC DAMNJANOVIC
National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 9 July 2018.

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