Marija Janjušević

Marija Janjušević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Јањушевић; born November 19, 1971) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of Dveri.

Early life and career

Janjušević was born in Jesenice, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She received elementary and high school education in Aleksandrovac, Serbia, and graduated from the faculty of agriculture at the University of Novi Sad. She later became the director of a company dealing in agricultural products and the director of a media monitoring service. She is now based in Inđija.[1]

Political career

Janjušević joined the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije; DSS) in 2000 and received the 144th position on a combined electoral list of the DSS and New Serbia in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] She was not included in her party's parliamentary delegation following the election. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Janjušević could have been awarded a mandate despite her low position on the list, though in fact she was not.)[3] She left the DSS in 2010 and joined Dveri the following year.[4]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. For the 2016 parliamentary election, Janjušević received the eleventh position on a combined list of Dveri and the DSS; the list won thirteen mandates, and she was accordingly elected to the assembly.[5] She is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on human and gender rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, and Venezuela.[6]

Janjušević also has sought election to the Assembly of Vojvodina on two occasions, receiving the twelfth position on Dveri's electoral list for the 2012 provincial election[7] and the third position on a combined Dveri–DSS list for the 2016 provincial election.[8] In neither instance did the list win enough support to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.

References
  1. MARIJA JANJUŠEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 July 2017.
  2. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 April 2017.
  3. Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  4. MARIJA JANJUŠEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 10 July 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 28 April 2017.
  6. MARIJA JANjUSEVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 10 July 2017.
  7. Кандидати за посланике: "ДВЕРИ ЗА СРПСКУ ВОЈВОДИНУ" (2012), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 12 July 2017.
  8. ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА ЗА ИЗБОРЕ ПОСЛАНИКА У СКУПШТИНУ АУТОНОМНЕ ПОКРАЈИНЕ ВОЈВОДИНЕ: ДВЕРИ – ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ – САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ – БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ (2016), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 12 July 2017.
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