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Bojana Božanić

Bojana Božanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојана Божанић; born 11 November 1981) is a Serbian politician and administrator. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and has been active in the municipal politics of Čajetina. Božanić is now a member of Healthy Serbia (ZS). Since 2016, she has been the director of the public company Gold Gondola Zlatibor.

Bojana Božanić
Бојана Божанић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
31 May 2012 – 16 April 2014
Personal details
Born (1981-11-11) 11 November 1981 (age 43)
NationalitySerbian
Political partyDSS (until 2014)
SNP (2014–17)
ZS (since 2017)

Private career

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Božanić was born in Užice, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 2006, she graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology as a professor of English.[1][2][3]

Politician

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Democratic Party of Serbia

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Božanić appeared in the seventh position on the DSS's electoral list for Čajetina in the 2008 Serbian local elections.[4] The party won a majority victory with eighteen out of thirty-one seats, and incumbent DSS mayor Milan Stamatović was confirmed afterward for another term in office.[5] In this election cycle, all assembly mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists at the discretion of the sponsoring parties or coalitions, irrespective of numerical order; Božanić was not given an assembly mandate but was instead appointed as a mayor's assistant.[6][7][8]

Parliamentarian (2012–2014)

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Serbia's electoral laws were reformed in 2011, such that all mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order.[9] Božanić received the twenty-first position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won exactly twenty-one mandates.[10] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), and other parties formed a coalition government after the election, and the DSS served in opposition. One of the youngest members in the assembly,[11] Božanić was a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the economy committee,[a] the spatial planning committee,[b] and the committee for environmental protection; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Norway, and the United Kingdom.[12] She was also a member of the informal green parliamentary group.[13]

Božanić was also given the third position on the DSS's list for Čajetina in the 2012 local elections, which took place concurrently with the parliamentary vote, and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixteen seats.[14] Milan Stamatović was chosen for another term as mayor, and Božanić appears to have resigned her local assembly seat soon after the election to serve another term as a mayor's assistant.[15]

Božanić was promoted to the twelfth position on the DSS list in the 2014 parliamentary election.[16] On this occasion, the list did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation.

Serbian People's Party

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The DSS experienced a split in 2014, and both Stamanović and Božanić became founding members of a breakaway group called the Serbian People's Party (SNP).[17] In early 2016, Božanić resigned as assistant to the mayor and was appointed as director of a new public company called Gold Gondola Zlatibor.[18]

The SNP, DSS, and Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) ran a combined electoral list in Čajetina in the 2016 local elections. Božanić received the third position on their list and was again elected when the alliance won twenty-one mandates.[19][20] She resigned her seat on 9 May 2016 to continue as director of Gold Gondola Zlatibor.[21]

Healthy Serbia

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In 2017, Milan Stamanović left the SNP to form a new political party called Healthy Serbia (ZS). Božanić joined the party and was chosen as one of its inaugural vice-presidents.[22] ZS and the DSS ran a combined list in Čajetina for the 2020 local elections; Božanić appeared in the fourth position and was elected for a third term when the list won twenty seats.[23][24] She once again appears to have resigned soon after the election, and on 1 October 2020 she was appointed to a new four-year team as director of Gold Gondola Zlatibor.[25] She also served afterward as president of Čajetina's council for gender equality.[26]

Healthy Serbia contested the 2020 parliamentary election in an alliance with Better Serbia (BS), and Božanić received the fourth position on their combined list.[27] The party later contested the 2022 parliamentary election on the list of the Sovereignists coalition, and Božanić appeared in the eleventh position.[28] In both cases, the list failed to cross the electoral threshold.

She is currently seeking re-election to the Čajetina municipal assembly in the 2024 Serbian local elections, appearing in the fourth position on Healthy Serbia's coalition list.[29]

Notes

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  1. ^ Formally known as the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism, and Energy.
  2. ^ Formally known as the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure, and Telecommunications.

References

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  1. ^ BOJANA BOŽANIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 February 2021.
  2. ^ Branislava Mićić, "Bojana Božanić, generalni direktor JP 'Gold gondola Zlatibor'", Ona, 7 May 2021, accessed 3 January 2022.
  3. ^ Bojana Božanić: Predsednica Saveta za rodnu ravnopravnost opštine Čajetina, zlata.rs, accessed 29 May 2024.
  4. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 3 Number 4 (30 April 2008), p. 3.
  5. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 3 Number 6 (14 May 2008), p. 4.
  6. ^ See Law on Local Elections (2007), Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000; made available via LegislationOnline, Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 7 April 2024.
  7. ^ SO Čajetina, Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Čajetina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  8. ^ Predsednik Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Čajetina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  9. ^ Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Articles 88 & 92) made available via LegislationOnline, Archived 2021-06-03 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 6 June 2021.
  10. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Bojana Božanić, opština Čajetina, jedna od četiri najmlađa poslanika Skupštine Srbije", zlatibor.rs, 1 June 2012, accessed 6 February 2021.
  12. ^ BOJANA BOŽANIĆ, Archived 2013-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 February 2021.
  13. ^ Bojana Božanić, Zeleni Dijalog, accessed 6 February 2021.
  14. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 7 Number 4 (10 May 2012), p. 5.
  15. ^ Predsednik, Archived 2012-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Čajetina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  16. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2020-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Potpisana inicijativa za osnivanje Srpske narodne partije", Novosti, 21 September 2014, accessed 6 February 2021.
  18. ^ "ŠLEPERI IZ FRANCUSKE NA ZLATIBORU: Gradi se ogromna gondola koja će ići preko jezera", Srbija Danas, 8 February 2016.
  19. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 11 Number 3 (12 April 2016), p. 2.
  20. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 11 Number 5 (25 April 2016), p. 4.
  21. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 11 Number 7 (14 June 2016), p. 3.
  22. ^ "Zdrava Srbija Čajetina Zlatibor", zlatibor.rs, 6 June 2017, accessed 6 February 2021.
  23. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 14 Number 8 (10 June 2020), p. 3.
  24. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 14 Number 9 (22 June 2020), p. 4.
  25. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 14 Number 15 (1 October 2020), p. 192.
  26. ^ Bojana Božanić: Predsednica Saveta za rodnu ravnopravnost opštine Čajetina, zlata.rs, accessed 29 May 2024.
  27. ^ "Ko je sve na listi Milana Stamatovića i Dragana Jovanovića za poslanike?", Danas, 22 May 2020, accessed 14 February 2021.
  28. ^ "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Suverenista", Danas, 22 February 2022, accessed 27 December 2022.
  29. ^ 1. МИЛАН СТАМАТОВИЋ-ЗДРАВА СРБИЈА, Izbori 2024, Čajetina Municipal Election Commission, accessed 29 May 2024.
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