Nataša Jovanović (Progressive Party politician)

Nataša Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Наташа Јовановић; born October 16, 1967) is a politician in Serbia. She has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

For the Radical Party politician, see Nataša Jovanović.

Early life and career

Jovanović was raised in the Mladenovac municipality in Belgrade, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She has a master's degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics and taught at the Economic and Commerce School in Sopot, Poland, from 1991 to 2000. She then returned to Mladenovac, where she worked as director of a branch office of the KBM bank from 2002 to 2015.[1] In 2015, she was appointed to serve on a provisional authority in Mladenovac after the municipal assembly was dissolved amid corruption charges.[2]

Political career

Jovanović received the 129th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[3] During the 2016–20 parliament, she was a member of the assembly committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; and a member the parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Argentina, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cuba, Georgia, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, and the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.[4]

She was promoted to the seventy-first position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[5] and was elected to a second term in the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

References
  1. NATAŠA (STANOJA) JOVANOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 14 August 2017.
  2. "Uvedena prinudna uprava", Danas, 17 July 2015, accessed 15 August 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. NATASA St. JOVANOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  5. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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