Olivera Pešić

Olivera Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Пешић; born 1979) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and career

Pešić is a graduate economist based in Leskovac. She has been the deputy director of the municipality's economic development agency and the leader of a local team charged with ensuring recertification as a favourable business environment.[1]

Political career

Pešić has been the leader of the Progressive Party's group in the Leskovac municipal assembly.[2]

She was given the seventy-eighth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[3] She was subsequently promoted to the fifty-seventh position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[4] During the 2016–20 parliament, Pešić was a member of the assembly committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a deputy member of the European integration committee and the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Spain.[5]

She received the sixty-sixth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[6] and was elected to a third term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

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References
  1. OLIVERA PEŠIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 May 2018.
  2. OLIVERA PEŠIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 18 May 2018.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  5. OLIVERA PESIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 May 2018.
  6. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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