Olivera Ognjanović

Olivera Ognjanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Огњановић; born 1969) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

Ognjanović has a bachelor's degree in management and is based in the Belgrade municipality of Grocka.[1][2] She was the director of the Grocka public utility company prior to her election to the National Assembly.[3]

Political career

Ognjanović sought election to the Grocka municipal assembly in the 2008 Serbian local elections as a candidate of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.[4] The Radical Party experienced a serious split later in the same year, with many members joining the newly formed Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Ognjanović was among those who sided with the Progressives. In the 2012 local elections, she appeared on the Progressive Party's coalition electoral list in Grocka.[5]

Ognjanović received the 123rd position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a majority with 131 out of 250 mandates.[6] She is currently a member of the assembly's committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the health and family committee and the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Algeria, Argentina, Australia, China, Cuba, Iran, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Tunisia, and the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.[7]

References
  1. OLIVERA OGNjANOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 6 May 2018.
  2. OLIVERA OGNJANOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 May 2018.
  3. N. M. Nedeljković, "Grocka pliva u đubretu", Novosti, 27 December 2013, accessed 6 May 2018.
  4. Velika Srbija [Radical Party publication], 5 May 2008 (Grocka), p. 5.
  5. Official Journal (службени лист), City of Belgrade, 25 April 2012, p. 97.
  6. 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.
  7. OLIVERA OGNjANOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 6 May 2018.
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