Danica Bukvić

Danica Bukvić (Serbian Cyrillic: Даница Буквић; born October 22, 1951) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Early life and private career

Bukvić was born and raised in Lazarevac, Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She graduated from the medical faculty at the University of Belgrade in 1976 and began working at the Institute for Endemic Nephropathy in Lazarevac the following year, eventually becoming its director. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 and has authored and co-authored several texts in her field.[1]

Political career

Bukvić began her political career at the municipal level, becoming deputy leader of the Lazarevac municipal assembly in 2012.[2] She first sought election to the National Assembly in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, receiving the 107th position on a coalition electoral list led by the Socialist Party.[3] This was too low a position for election to be a realistic prospect and, indeed, she was not elected.

Bukvić was promoted to the twenty-sixth position on the Socialist-led list for the 2016 parliamentary election and was declared elected when the list won twenty-nine mandates.[4] She is currently a member of the parliamentary health and family committee; a deputy member of three other committees; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.[5] The Socialist Party is part of Serbia's coalition government, and Bukvić accordingly serves as a member of the government's parliamentary majority.

References
  1. VEĆU ZA NAUČNOISTRAŽIVAČKI RAD MEDICINSKOG FAKULTETA (Danica Bukvić) Archived 2011-12-15 at the Wayback Machine, University of Belgrade, 26 July 2004, accessed 22 March 2017.
  2. LAZAREVAC DOBIO NOVU OPŠTINSKU VLAST, Kolubara, 27 July 2012, accessed 22 March 2017.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)") Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
  4. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
  5. Danica Bukvic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 21 March 2017.
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