Ivana Popović

Ivana Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Поповић; born 20 February 1989) is a Serbian publisher, entrepreneur, and politician. She was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 parliamentary election as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

This article is about politician. For the Australian tennis player, see Ivana Popovic.

Early life and private career

Popović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree as an economist and has been the marketing manager of the journals Ona and Černogorija.[1] She is now based at her family's property in Kržava, in the Krupanj municipality, and is the founder of the Džemara company, which specializes in jams and produces sauces, spices, and other food products.[2][3] She was awarded the cup for innovation in agribusiness at the 86th Annual Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad in 2019.[4]

Politician

Parliamentarian

Popović was given the fifth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] This was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates. During the campaign, she said that her priorities would be small entrepreneurs, youth issues, and ensuring youth have a reason to remain in Serbia.[6]

Popović is a member of the assembly committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the culture and information committee and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with South Korea; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[7]

Municipal politics

Popović received the fifth position the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Krupanj municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections[8] and was elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-five out of thirty-five mandates.[9]

References
  1. Ivana Popović, Ona, accessed 27 June 2020.
  2. "Ивана Поповић- предузетница из Крупња, пета на листи СНС", krupanj-info.rs, 8 March 2020, accessed 27 June 2018.
  3. Ivana Popović, Džemara Krupanj – dobitnica pehara za inovaciju godine u agrobiznisu Ivana Popović, "Ivana Popović, osnivač i idejni tvorac novog brenda „Džemara“: Moderni začin na srpski način", Ona, 16 December 2018, accessed 27 June 2020.
  4. "Džemara Krupanj – dobitnica pehara za inovaciju godine u agrobiznisu", Ona Magazin, 19 May 2019, accessed 27 June 2020.
  5. "KANDIDAT ZA POSLANIKA IVANA POPOVIĆ IZ KRUPNJA", Srpska Naprenda Stranka (Krupanj), accessed 27 June 2020.
  6. "Young SNS leaders: We will fight for young people to stay in Serbia", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 12 June 2020, accessed 28 June 2020.
  7. IVANA POPOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 3 December 2020.
  8. zbirna izborna lista, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Krupanj, accessed 4 December 2020.
  9. zapisnik o radu-rezultati izbori, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Krupanj, accessed 4 December 2020.
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