Zagorka Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Загорка Алексић; born 28 March 1987) is a Serbian author and politician. She has served in the Serbian parliament since 2020 and was a member of the Belgrade city assembly on an almost uninterrupted basis from 2014 to 2023. Aleksić is a member of United Serbia (JS).
Zagorka Aleksić | |
|---|---|
| Загорка Алексић | |
| Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia | |
| Assumed office 3 August 2020 | |
| Member of the City Assembly of Belgrade | |
| In office 20 June 2022 – 30 October 2023 | |
| In office 14 March 2014 – 11 June 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 March 1987 Titograd, SR Montenegro, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | JS (2009–present) |
Early life and career
editAleksić was born in Podgorica (then known as Titograd) in what was then the Socialist Republic of Montenegro in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She was raised in Vranje in the south of Serbia and later moved to Belgrade.[1] She is a graduated politicologist.[2]
She published her first novel, Naši Ljudi (English: Our People), in 2024.[3]
Politician
editAleksić joined United Serbia in 2009 after meeting party leader Dragan Marković.[4] United Serbia has participated in every parliamentary election since 2008 as part of an alliance led by the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and has also cooperated with the SPS at the local level in several cities, including Belgrade.
While still a student, Aleksić received the third position on the SPS's coalition electoral list in the 2014 Belgrade city assembly election and was elected when the list won sixteen mandates.[5] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won a majority victory and afterward formed a coalition government that included the Socialists, and Aleksić served as part of the government's assembly majority.
She again received the third position on the SPS list in the 2018 Belgrade city election and was re-elected when the list won eight seats.[6] On this occasion, she was the only JS member elected to the city assembly. The SNS won another majority victory and continued to govern in a coalition including the Socialists, with United Serbia providing outside support.
Parliamentarian
editAleksić was given the tenth position on the SPS's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to the national assembly when the list won thirty-two seats.[7] The SNS coalition won a landslide majority victory in the face of an opposition boycott and, as in Belgrade, governed in a coalition including the Socialists. In her first parliamentary term, Aleksić was a member of the health and family committee and the committee on the rights of the child (and the latter's working group for initiatives, petitions, and proposals), a deputy member of the spatial planning committee[a] and the European integration committee, a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain, and Turkey.[8]
She appeared in the thirtieth position on the SPS's list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won thirty-one seats.[9] In the term that followed, she was a member of the European integration committee and the committee on the rights of the child, a deputy member of the health and family committee, again a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, and a member of twenty-four friendship groups.[b][10]
Aleksić also appeared in the ninth position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2022 Belgrade city assembly election, which took place concurrently with the parliamentary vote.[11] The list won eight seats; she was not immediately elected but received a mandate on 20 June 2022 as a replacement for fellow party member Rade Basta.[12] Her third city assembly term lasted until 30 October 2023, when the assembly was dissolved for early elections.[13]
Aleksić received the seventeenth position on the SPS's list in the 2023 parliamentary election and was re-elected even as the list fell to eighteen seats overall.[14] She is now deputy chair of the committee on the rights of the child, a member of the finance committee,[c] a deputy member of the spatial planning committee and the European integration committee, a member of the Republic of Serbia–Republika Srpska parliamentary forum, a member of the working group for the improvement of the electoral process, and a member of the friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Nicaragua, North Korea, Norway, Romania, Russia, and Sweden.[15]
She was also given the twenty-eighth position on the SPS's list in the 2023 Belgrade city election, which once again took place concurrently with the parliamentary vote, and was not re-elected to the city assembly when the list fell to only five seats.[16]
In October 2024, Aleksić wrote an opinion piece in the journal Politika that supported the government's natalist policy and criticized what she described as the idea of the "supremacy of the self-sufficient individual."[17]
Notes
edit- ^ Formally known as the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure, and Telecommunications.
- ^ She was a member of the friendship groups with Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, Palestine, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
- ^ Formally known as the Committee on Finance, State Budget, and Control of Public Spending.
References
edit- ^ "Ja, Zagorka Aleksić", Kazaljka, 22 May 2024, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ ZAGORKA ALEKSIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ Slavica Stuparušić, "Podržava bliske ljude glasno", Politika Magazin, 7 August 2024, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ Slavica Stuparušić, "Podržava bliske ljude glasno", Politika Magazin, 7 August 2024, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 15 (5 March 2014), p. 5.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 62 Number 17 (21 February 2018), p. 5.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SPS-JS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 7 March 2020, accessed 30 April 2021.
- ^ ZAGORKA ALEKSIC, Archived 2022-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ "Ko su kandidati liste SPS-JS-ZS 'Ivica Dačić – Premijer Srbije' za poslanike", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 28 April 2022.
- ^ ZAGORKA ALEKSIC, Archived 2023-02-03 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 56 Number 35 (18 March 2022), p. 3.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 56 Number 64 (20 June 2022), p. 2.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 67 Number 86 (30 October 2023), p. 6.
- ^ "Lista SPS-JS-Zeleni Srbije bez iznenađenja- osim Marka Miloševića sve provereni kadrovi", Danas, 4 November 2023, accessed 28 March 2024.
- ^ ZAGORKA ALEKSIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 November 2024.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 67 Number 98 (1 December 2023), p. 4.
- ^ Zagorka Aleksić, "Porodica i samodovoljni pojedinac", Politika, 29 October 2024, accessed 9 November 2024.