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.

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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