Ljibuška Lakatoš

Ljibuška Lakatoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Љибушка Лакатош; born 1972) is a politician in Serbia. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2014 to 2018 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Since December 2018, she has served as the leader of Serbia's Slovak National Council.

Private career

Lakatoš is a professor of physical education and is the head of the municipality of Stara Pazova's department for sports, youth, and culture.[1][2]

Political career

Lakatoš contested the 2012 Stara Pazova municipal election as a candidate of the United Regions of Serbia party.[3]

She received the 126th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[4] She was promoted to the 105th position on the Progressive Party's successor Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in 2016 and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.[5]

During her second term, Lakatoš was a member of the parliamentary committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Slovakia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Russia, and Tunisia.[6]

Lakatoš headed a list called Matica Slovakia in Serbia in the 2018 elections for Serbia's Slovak National Council[7] and was elected when the list won fourteen out of twenty-nine available seats.[8] She was chosen as leader of the council on 4 December 2018[9] and resigned from the National Assembly on 25 December.[10]

References
  1. LJIBUŠKA LAKATOŠ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 26 October 2017.
  2. S. Bosiljčić, "Tablet računari za najbolje učenike", Danas, 3 September 2013.
  3. LJIBUŠKA LAKATOŠ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 26 October 2017.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. LjIBUSKA LAKATOS, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 26 October 2017.
  7. Проглашене изборне листе; Национални савет СЛОВАЧКЕ националне мањине (Изборна листа МАТИЦА СЛОВАЧКА У СРБИЈИ – ЉИБУШКА ЛАКАТОШ MATICA SLOVENSKÁ V SRBSKU – LIBUŠKA LAKATOŠOVÁ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 15 February 2019.
  8. Укупни резултати избора за националне савете националних мањина; Национални савет СЛОВАЧКЕ националне мањине (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 15 February 2019.
  9. Ljibuška Lakatoš na čelu Nacionalnog saveta slovačke nacionalne manjine, Radio Television Stara Pazova, 5 December 2018, accessed 15 February 2019.
  10. Current Legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 15 February 2019.
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