Vesna Knežević
Vesna Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Кнежевић; born 13 October 1958) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career
[edit]Knežević was born in Titel in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a lawyer in private life.[1]
Politician
[edit]Municipal politics
[edit]Knežević received the ninth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Titel municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections[2] and was elected when the list won eleven out of twenty-five mandates.[3] She was re-elected in the municipal elections of 2016 and 2020 local elections, in which the Progressives won successive majority victories.[4][5]
Knežević was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the municipal assembly after the 2016 election[6] and served in this role until 2020.
Parliamentarian
[edit]Knežević received the 166th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 188 out of 250 mandates.[7] She is a member of the assembly committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Greece, Israel, and Russia.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ VESNA KNEŽEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 4 October 2020.
- ^ Službeni List (Municipality of Titel), Volume 47 Number 8 (2 May 2012), p. 4.
- ^ Službeni List (Municipality of Titel), Volume 47 Number 9 (8 May 2012), p. 2.
- ^ Službeni List (Municipality of Titel), Volume 51 Number 3 (11 April 2016), p. 1; Službeni List (Municipality of Titel), Volume 51 Number 5 (5 May 2016), p. 1. Knežević received the third position on the Progressive list in 2016.
- ^ Збирна изборна листа за избор одборника Скупштине општине Тител, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Titel, accessed 4 October 2020; Извештај о спроведеним изборима за одборнике Скупштине општине Тител на изборима одржаним 21. јуна 2020. године, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Titel, accessed 4 October 2020. She received the eleventh position on the Progressive list in 2020.
- ^ Službeni List (Municipality of Titel), Volume 51 Number 6 (23 May 2016), p. 2.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ VESNA KNEZEVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.