Mira Petrović

Mira Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мира Петровић; born 30 May 1956) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).

Private career

Petrović is a retired economist based in Belgrade.[1] She worked for several years in the banking sector.[2]

Political career

Parliamentarian

The PUPS contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, and Petrović received the 208th position (out of 250) on their combined electoral list.[3] The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order.[4] Petrović's low position would not have necessarily prevented her from receiving a mandate, but the list's failure to cross the threshold rendered the matter moot.) The United Pensioners subsequently formed a new electoral alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Petrović received the eighth position on the Socialist Party-led electoral lists for 2012 and 2014 elections and was elected when the alliance won forty-four seats on both occasions.[5][6] The PUPS was included in government from 2012 to 2014 and provided outside support from 2014 to 2016; Petrović served as part of the government's parliamentary majority. She was appointed to the Radio Television of Serbia radio programming board in late 2012.[7]

For the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, the United Pensioners joined the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Petrović received the forty-fifth position on their list and was re-elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[8] In September 2016, she replaced PUPS leader Milan Krkobabić as the acting director of Pošta Srbije.[9][10] Workers at the state-owned corporation threatened to take strike action in November 2017; one of their demands was Petrović's dismissal as director.[11] This notwithstanding, she remains acting director as of 2020.[12]

During the 2016–20 parliament, Petrović was a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly and its parliamentary friendship groups with China, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.[13]

She received the sixty-first position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[14] and was elected to a fourth term in the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now the deputy leader of the PUPS parliamentary group, a member of the culture and information committee and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues, and a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee. She continues to serve in Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union and is a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with China, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.[15]

City politics in Belgrade

Petrović was awarded the thirteenth position on the Socialist Party's list in the 2014 Belgrade City Assembly election[16] and was elected when the list won sixteen mandates. She resigned her mandate on 28 May 2014.[17]

References
  1. MIRA PETROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 24 May 2018.
  2. Direktor, Pošta Srbije, accessed 22 July 2020.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) - Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) - Др Небојша Човић) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  4. Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  5. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)") Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  6. 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 17 February 2017.
  7. MIRA PETROVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 24 May 2018.
  8. 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.
  9. Mirjana N. Stevanović, "Mira Petrović: Krkobabićeva naslednica", Danas, 15 September 2016, accessed 24 May 2018.
  10. Mirjana Čekerevac, "Mira Petrović dobila saglasnost da bude v. d. direktora „Pošte”", Politika, 30 September 2016, accessed 24 May 2018.
  11. "Serbia: Poste Srbije's workers threaten with strike," Esmerk Eastern European News, 13 November 2017.
  12. Direktor, Pošta Srbije, accessed 22 July 2020.
  13. MIRA PETROVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 24 May 2018.
  14. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  15. MIRA PETROVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 December 2020.
  16. Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 58 Number 15 (5 March 2014), p. 5.
  17. Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 58 Number 44 (28 May 2014), p. 1.
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