Snežana Petrović (Serbian People's Party politician)

Snežana R. Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Снежана Р. Петровић; born 8 December 1965) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian People's Party (Srpska narodna partija, SNP).

Early life and career

Petrović was born in Kosjerić, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She has a bachelor's degree in economics. Petrović worked in the Užice branch of the Vojvođanska banka from 1989 to 2005 and at the Raiffeisen Bank in the same city from 2005 to 2007. She also began working for NIS Gazprom Neft in 2005, eventually becoming the head of wholesale service. She lives in Užice.[1]

Political career

The Serbian People's Party contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Petrović received the eighty-sixth position on the alliance's electoral list and was elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[2] Three SNP candidates won mandates in this election, and all served in the Progressive Party's parliamentary group.

During the 2014–16 parliament, Petrović was a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, India, Kazakhstan, Russia, and the United States of America.[3]

Petrović received the 127th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[4] and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.

References
  1. SNEŽANA R. PETROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 June 2018.
  2. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. A different Snežana Petrović, of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia, appeared in the eighty-seventh position.
  3. SNEZANA R. PETROVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
  4. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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