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Marinika Tepić
Мариника Тепић
Provincial Secretary for Sports and Youth
In office
11 July 2012 – 20 June 2016
Preceded byModest Dulić
Succeeded byVladimir Batez
Personal details
Born
Marinika Čobanu

(1974-08-08) 8 August 1974 (age 50)
Pančevo, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyLSV (2008–2017)
New Party (2017–2018)
Party of Freedom and Justice (2019–present)
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade

Marinika Tepić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мариника Тепић; née Čobanu;[1] born 1974) is a Serbian politician. She was a provincial Secretary for Sports and Youth in the government of Vojvodina from 2012 to 2016 and has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016. Elected as a member of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), she subsequently joined the New Party and then switched to the new-formed Party of Freedom and Justice in 2019.

Early life and career

Marinika Čobanu was born in an ethnic Romanian family in 1974 in Pančevo, Vojvodina, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated English and Romanian languages[2] from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology in 1995 and, in the same year, began teaching elementary school English in Pančevo. She was a professional journalist from 1997 to 2009, writing and reporting for Radio 021, Danas, and the Romanian language publication Libertatea, along with other outlets. Tepić is also a veteran human rights and minority rights campaigner and has served as the deputy director for the National Council for the Decentralization of the Republic of Serbia.[3]

Political career

Vojvodina government minister

Tepić appeared in the twenty-fourth position on the LSV's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election. During this period, half of the Vojvodina assembly's 120 seats were determined by proportional representation and the other half by election in single-member constituencies. The LSV won eight proportional seats, and Tepić was not elected.[4] The party was included in a coalition government formed after the election, however, and Tepić was appointed as one of its Government members, serving as provincial Secretary for Sports and Youth.[5]

In 2013, Tepić oversaw the introduction of the first sex education classes in the province, following a ten-month consultation process. She noted that ninety-five per cent of parents surveyed by the Secretariat had approved of the initiative and argued that the program was unlikely to face a strong degree of opposition, as had a similar initiative in neighbouring Croatia.[6] This notwithstanding, some educational material released through the initiative provoked a backlash from socially conservative groups; the Democratic Party of Serbia, which held four seats in the assembly, argued that one publication "promoted homosexuality" and that Tepić should resign as secretary. She defended the material and remained in her position.[1]

She received the sixth position on the LSV's list in the 2016 provincial election, which was conducted entirely under a system of proportional representation. The party won nine seats; she was declared elected but declined her mandate in order to serve in the National Assembly, to which she had been elected in the concurrent 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.[7][8] Both the republic-level and provincial elections were won by the Serbian Progressive Party and its allies; a new government was formed in Vojvodina, and Tepić stood down from her cabinet position on 20 June 2016.

Member of the National Assembly

League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina

The LSV contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election on the list of former Serbian president Boris Tadić. Tepić received the sixth position on the list and was elected when it won eighteenth mandates.[9] She declined her mandate, however, in order to continue serving in the Vojvodina government. Officially, she was a member of the National Assembly from 16 to 24 April 2014, before her resignation took effect.[10]

She received the eleventh position on Tadić's list in the 2016 election and was elected to a second term when the list won thirteen mandates.[11] As the Progressive Party and its allies won the election, Tepić and the other LSV delegates served in opposition. This notwithstanding, she was appointed as head of the assembly's committee on European integration. Tepić resigned from the LSV in January 2017, in protest against party leader Nenad Čanak's decision to run in the 2017 Serbian presidential election rather than supporting the candidacy of Saša Janković.[12] During the presidential election, she served on Janković's political council.[13] In April 2017, having lost her initial party affiliation, she was removed from all of her Assembly committee memberships.[14]

New Party

Tepić joined Zoran Živković's New Party in April 2017, thereby becoming its second member in the current sitting of the assembly.[15] She was appointed to the party's presidency and was named as its provincial leader in Vojvodina. The following month, Živković and Tepić joined with three former members of the It's Enough – Restart association to form a new parliamentary group called the "Independent MPs Club".[16]

Tepić, a vocal opponent of fascism, was harassed by anonymous graffiti messages from extreme right-wing groups in 2017; one such message read, "Corneliu Codreanu, not Marinika Čobanu." The New Party condemned these messages and argued that they were being condoned by Serbia's government and state organs.[17] In the same period, Tepić reported receiving death threats from right-wing groups, and Živković urged the government to assess whether she required state protection.[18][19] Meho Omerović, the chair of the assembly's committee on human and minority rights, condemned the threats against her and urged the police to ensure her safety.[20]

The New Party contested the March 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election in a coalition with the Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party; the list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation. Tepić resigned her leadership positions in the New Party the following month, saying that the party had failed to respond to the message of the election.[21] Some media sources interpreted this to mean that she had resigned from the party, but she later clarified that she was still a member and, moreover, was not calling for Živković to resign as leader.[22] A June 2018 news article in Danas continued to identify her as a New Party representative.[23] It is unclear when she ceased to be a member, but she was no longer actively engaged with the party by September 2018.[24]

Party of Freedom and Justice

On 19 April 2019, Tepić was selected as a vice-president of the newly formed Party of Freedom and Justice.[25]

While Tepić no longer holds any committee assignments in the assembly, she remains a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b "Čobanu: Udžbenik ne promoviše homoseksualnost", Blic (Source: www.021.rs), 8 October 2013, accessed 5 July 2018.
  2. ^ Milenković, Piše: Mirjana R. "Marinika Tepić: Rođena za vođu". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  3. ^ MARINIKA TEPIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 July 2018.
  4. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 2 - ЛИГА СОЦИЈАЛДЕМОКРАТА ВОЈВОДИНЕ-НЕНАД ЧАНАК - кандидати за посланике) (2012), Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 6 July 2018.
  5. ^ MARINIKA TEPIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 July 2018.
  6. ^ Colin Graham, "Sex Education - Sex education comes to Balkans," Times Educational Supplement, 20 August 2013, p. 8.
  7. ^ И З Б О Р Н А Л И С Т А ЗА ИЗБОРЕ ПОСЛАНИКА У СКУПШТИНУ АУТОНОМНЕ ПОКРАЈИНЕ ВОЈВОДИНЕ (Коалиција Ненад Чанак – Лига социјалдемократа Војводине – Дигни главу!) (2016), Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 30 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине одржаних 24. априла 2016. године" and "Одлука о изменама Извештаја о укупним резултатима избора за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине одржаних 24. априла 2016. године", Provincial Election Commission of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 5 July 2018.
  9. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (БОРИС ТАДИЋ - Нова демократска странка - Зелени, ЛСВ - Ненад Чанак, Заједно за Србију, VMDK, Заједно за Војводину, Демократска левица Рома) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 14 April 2017.
  10. ^ 16 April 2014 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 July 2018.
  11. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  12. ^ "Marinika Tepić izašla iz LSV, ne podržava Čankovu kandidaturu za predsednika, već Jankovića", Blic (Source: Beta), 31 January 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  13. ^ "Marinika Tepić članica Političkog saveta Saše Jankovića", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 2 February 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  14. ^ "Skupština razrešila Mariniku Tepić i tri bivša člana DJB", N1, 21 April 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  15. ^ "Marinika Tepić se priključila Novoj stranci", Novosti (Source: Tanjug), 21 April 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  16. ^ "Bivši poslanici DJB i Nove stranke osnovali novi poslanički klub", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 31 May 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  17. ^ "Nova stranka: Pretnje poslanici Mariniki Tepić na grafitima u Beogradu", Beta, 13 December 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  18. ^ "Grafiti sa pretnjama Mariniki Tepić", '"Danas, 13 December 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  19. ^ "Marinika Tepić: Osećam se jezivo zbog pretnji", N1, 29 January 2018, accessed 5 July 2018.
  20. ^ "Omerović: Nedopustive pretnje poslanici Tepić, tužilaštvo i policija da reaguju", Blic (Source: Tanjug), 6 December 2017, accessed 5 July 2018.
  21. ^ "Marinika Tepić podnela ostavku na funkcije u Novoj stranci", N1, 14 April 2018, accessed 5 July 2018.
  22. ^ "Tepić: Ostajem u stranci, nisam tražila smenu Živkovića", 17 April 2018, accessed 5 July 2018.
  23. ^ Mirjana R. Milenković, "Tepićeva: Verujem da je stranka prisilila Sušeca na ostavku", Danas, 8 June 2018, accessed 5 July 2018.
  24. ^ "Tepić: Podržavam osnivanje SZS", Danas, 17 September 2018, accessed 24 January 2019.
  25. ^ L. Valtner, "Formirana Stranka slobode i pravde", Danas, 19 April 2019, accessed 23 April 2019.
  26. ^ MARINIKA TEPIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 5 July 2018.
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