Bojana Božanić

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Bojana Božanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бојана Божанић; born 11 November 1981) is a politician in Serbia. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (Demokratska stranka Srbije, DSS). Božanić is now a member of Healthy Serbia (Zdrava Srbija, ZS).

Private career[]

Božanić is a graduate of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, with a degree in English. She lives in Čajetina.[1]

Politician[]

Municipal politics[]

Božanić has been elected to the Čajetina municipal assembly at least three times, although she has only served for brief periods. She was given the seventh position on the DSS's electoral list for Čajetina in the 2008 Serbian local elections.[2] Under the leadership of Milan Stamatović, the party won a majority victory with eighteen out of thirty-one mandates.[3] Prior to an electoral reform in 2011, mandates were awarded at the decision of successful parties or coalitions, and it was common practice for them to be assigned out of numerical order. Božanić does not appear to have been awarded a mandate and is not on a list of assembly members from 2010.[4] She instead served as an assistant to Stamanović in the latter's capacity as mayor.[5]

Following the 2011 electoral reform, mandates in Serbian elections were awarded in numerical order. Božanić was given the third position on the DSS's list in the 2012 local elections and was elected when the list won sixteen mandates.[6] She does not appear to have taken her mandate, however, and instead served another term as assistant to the mayor.[7] In 2016, she was appointed as director of the public company "Gold Gondola Zlatibor."

The DSS experienced a split in 2014, and Stamanović and Božanić both became founding members of a breakaway group called the Serbian People's Party (Srpska narodna partija, SNP).[8] In the 2016 Serbian local elections, the SNP, DSS, and Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) ran a combined electoral list in Čajetina. Božanić received the third position on the list and was again elected when the alliance won twenty-one mandates.[9][10] She resigned from the assembly on 9 May 2016 to continue serving as director of Gold Gondola Zlatibor.[11]

In 2017, Stamanović left the SNP to form a new political party called Healthy Serbia. Božanić was selected as one of the new party's inaugural vice-presidents.[12] The ZS and DSS ran a combined list in Čajetina for the 2020 local elections; Božanić appeared in the fourth position and was elected for a third time when the list won twenty seats.[13][14] She again appears to have declined her mandate, and on 1 October 2020 she was appointed to a new four-year team at Gold Gondola Zlatibor.[15]

Parliamentarian[]

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.[16] A coalition government was formed after the election by the Serbian Progressive Party, the Socialist Party of Serbia, and other parties, and the DSS served in opposition for the next two years. One of the youngest members in the assembly,[17] Božanić was a member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee for spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the committee for environmental protection; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Norway, and the United Kingdom.[18] She was a member of the informal green parliamentary group.[19]

She was promoted to the twelfth position on the DSS list in the 2014 parliamentary election.[20] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly, and she subsequently left the party.

Healthy Serbia contested the 2020 parliamentary election in an alliance with Better Serbia, and Božanić received the fourth position on their combined list.[21] This list, as well, failed to cross the electoral threshold.

References[]

  1. ^ BOJANA BOŽANIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 6 February 2021.
  2. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 3 Number 4 (30 April 2008), p. 3.
  3. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 3 Number 6 (14 May 2008), p. 4.
  4. ^ SO Čajetina, Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Čajetina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  5. ^ Predsednik Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Čajetina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 7 Number 4 (10 May 2012), p. 5.
  7. ^ Predsednik, Archived 2012-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Čajetina, accessed 6 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Potpisana inicijativa za osnivanje Srpske narodne partije", Novosti, 21 September 2014, accessed 6 February 2021.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 11 Number 3 (12 April 2016), p. 2.
  10. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 11 Number 5 (25 April 2016), p. 4.
  11. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 11 Number 7 (14 June 2016), p. 3.
  12. ^ "Zdrava Srbija Čajetina Zlatibor", zlatibor.rs, 6 June 2017, accessed 6 February 2021.
  13. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 14 Number 8 (10 June 2020), p. 3.
  14. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 14 Number 9 (22 June 2020), p. 4.
  15. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Čajetina), Volume 14 Number 15 (1 October 2020), p. 192.
  16. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА) Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Bojana Božanić, opština Čajetina, jedna od četiri najmlađa poslanika Skupštine Srbije", zlatibor.rs, 1 June 2012, accessed 6 February 2021.
  18. ^ BOJANA BOŽANIĆ, Archived 2013-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 6 February 2021.
  19. ^ Bojana Božanić, Zeleni Dijalog, accessed 6 February 2021.
  20. ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница) Archived 2020-10-08 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 6 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Ko je sve na listi Milana Stamatovića i Dragana Jovanovića za poslanike?", Danas, 22 May 2020, accessed 14 February 2021.
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