Nevena Adžemović

Nevena Adžemović (Serbian Cyrillic: Невена Аџемовић, born December 4, 1982) is a Serbian model, singer, and former politician. She was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the New Serbia party.

Early life and career

Adžemović was born in Belgrade, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] She became a public figure in Serbia as part of the group Models.[2]

Parliamentarian

The New Serbia party contested the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Let's Get Serbia Moving alliance led by Tomislav Nikolić. Adžemović received the seventy-fifth position on the alliance's electoral list and, as the list won seventy-three mandates, was not initially declared elected to the assembly.[3] After New Serbia leader Velimir Ilić resigned from parliament to take a cabinet position, however, she was able to take his vacated position. Her tenure in the assembly began on July 30, 2012.[4] For the next two years, she served as a parliamentary supporter of Ivica Dačić's coalition government, of which New Serbia was a member.

The Serbian media noted that some parliamentarians had reservations about Adžemović's qualifications for the assembly, due in part to her previous career as a model. She received support from Ilić, who cited her training as an economist and described her critics as prejudiced.[5]

Following her election to parliament, Adžemović indicated that she had joined the Beogradski fond za političku izuzetnost (Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence) led by Sonja Licht.[6] She identified children's rights and gender equality as her primary areas of interest.[7] Adžemović was a member of the Serbian parliamentary friendship groups for Australia, France, Mexico, Morocco, and Turkey.[8] She was dropped from New Serbia's electoral list in early 2014 and subsequently announced her departure from politics.[9]

References
  1. Nevena Adžemović, Otvoreni Parlament (version captured on the Internet Archive, 17 May 2016), accessed 14 July 2017.
  2. "Modelsica dočekana na nož", B92, accessed 23 April 2013.
  3. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  4. NEVENA ADZEMOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 23 April 2013. A version of this page from 2 April 2015, is available via the Internet Archive, accessed 26 January 2017. Serbia's 2011 electoral law stipulates that, in the event of the departure from the assembly of a member elected on a coalition list, the vacant mandate will fall to the next candidate on the list from the same party. See Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Article 92) made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
  5. Ilić: Nevena Adžemović je pametna, B92, accessed 23 April 2013.
  6. "Nevena Models stipendista Sonje Liht," Vesti Online, 18 October 2012, accessed 23 April 2013.
  7. "Modelsica dočekana na nož", B92, accessed 23 April 2013.
  8. NEVENA ADZEMOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 23 April 2013. A version of this page from 2 April 2015, is available via the Internet Archive, accessed 26 January 2017.
  9. "Modelsica: Politika gora od estrade", B92, 7 February 2014, accessed 17 April 2014.
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