Milanka Jevtović Vukojičić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миланка Јевтовић Вукојичић; born 29 January 1960) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career
editJevtović Vukojičić is a social worker and has worked for many years as supervisor of the centre for social work in Priboj.[1][2][3]
Politician
editMunicipal politics
editJevtović Vukojičić has served in the municipal assembly of Priboj. She was given the third position on the Progressive Party's electoral list in the 2012 Serbian local elections[4] and was returned when the list won seven mandates.[5] She did not seek re-election in 2016.
Parliamentarian
editJevtović Vukojičić received the seventy-eighth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[6] The list won seventy-three mandates, and the Progressive Party subsequently formed a new coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and other parties. Although Jevtović Vukojičić narrowly missed direct election, she was able to take her seat in the assembly on 25 July 2012, following the resignation of party members further up the list to take positions in the new administration.[7]
She was promoted to the forty-second position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was returned when the list won a majority victory with 158 out of 250 seats.[8] She was elected for a third term in the 2016 election on the successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list, which won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[9]
During the 2016–20 parliament, Jevtović Vukojičić was the chair of the parliamentary committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality and the committee on the rights of the child; the chair of a working group on the political empowerment of persons with disabilities; a member of the commission for the control of the execution of criminal sanctions; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process parliamentary assembly; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Bolivia, Canada, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[10] In September 2016, she took part in an inter-parliamentary workshop in Bucharest, Romania, entitled, "European Parliamentarians Fighting Modern Slavery."[11]
She received the 110th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 election[12] and was elected to a fourth term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now the deputy chair of the labour committee, a member of the committee on the rights of the child, a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with China, India, Italy, and Russia.[13]
References
edit- ^ MILANKA JEVTOVIĆ VUKOJIČIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Bezbrižno detinjstvo i ljubav u pribojskim porodicama", Radio Television of Serbia, 12 March 2017, accessed 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Како живети и преживети у Прибоју", Politika, 9 December 2011, accessed 25 July 2017.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Priboj), Volume 15 Number 3 (25 April 2012), p. 4.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Priboj), Volume 15 Number 4 (8 May 2012), p. 1.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2018-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 25. јула 2012. године) Archived 2018-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 25 July 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ On this occasion, she received the ninety-third position on the list. See 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.
- ^ MILANKA JEVTOVIC VUKOJICIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 July 2020.
- ^ "National Assembly Delegation Takes Part in Interparliamentary Workshop 'European Parliamentarians Fighting Modern Slavery'", National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, 29 September 2016, accessed 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ MILANKA JEVTOVIC VUKOJICIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 13 January 2021.