Snežana Petrović (Serbian People's Party politician)
Snežana R. Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Снежана Р. Петровић; born December 8, 1965) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian People's Party (Srpska narodna partija, SNP).
Early life and career
Petrović was born in Kosjerić, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She has a bachelor's degree in economics. Petrović worked in the Užice branch of the Vojvođanska banka from 1989 to 2005 and at the Raiffeisen Bank in the same city from 2005 to 2007. Since 2005, she has worked for NIS Gazprom Neft, where she is currently the head of wholesale service. She lives in Užice.[1]
Political career
The Serbian People's Party contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Petrović received the eighty-sixth position on the alliance's electoral list and was elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[2] Three SNP candidates won assembly mandates in this election, and all serve in the Progressive Party's parliamentary group.
Petrović is currently a member of the assembly committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, India, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the United States of America.[3]
As of 2018, Petrović is the first deputy secretary-general of the SNP.[4]
References
- ^ SNEŽANA R. PETROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 June 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. A different Snežana Petrović, of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia, appeared in the eighty-seventh position.
- ^ SNEZANA R. PETROVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 1 June 2018.
- ^ ГЕНЕРАЛНИ СЕКРЕТАР, Serbian People's Party, accessed 1 June 2018.