Snežana Paunović

Snežana Paunović (Serbian Cyrillic: Снежана Пауновић; born January 1, 1975) is a politician in Serbia. She is currently serving her second term in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Early life and career

Paunović was born to a Serb family in Peć, Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She continues to reside in the city, in the now-disputed territory recognized by Serbia as the province of Kosovo and Metohija. Paunović is a graduate economist and has served on the supervisory board of the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, a position that she left in 2015.[1][2]

Political career

Paunović is a member of the main board of the Socialist Party of Serbia and the presidency of its women's forum.[3]

She received the 180th position on the party's electoral list for the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election. The party won sixteen seats, and she was not subsequently chosen to serve in its assembly delegation. (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. Paunović could have received a mandate despite her low position on the list – which was mostly alphabetical – but, in the event, she did not.)[4]

In June 2010, Paunović was appointed by the Serbian government as coordinator for the Serb community in the municipality of Dečani.[5] In 2012, she and other Kosovo Serb officials took part in negotiations with Serbian president Tomislav Nikolić on the future of the disputed territory and the status of its Serb community.[6]

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Paunović received the fifty-seventh position on the Socialist Party's list and, as the list won forty-four mandates, was not immediately elected.[7] She was, however, awarded a mandate on October 24, 2013, as a replacement for Neđo Jovanović, who had resigned to take a government position.[8] The Socialist Party formed a coalition government with the Serbian Progressive Party after the 2012 election, and Paunović served as part of its parliamentary majority during her brief first term in office. The assembly was dissolved in early 2014, and she was not a candidate in the 2014 election.

Paunović received the twenty-first position on the Socialist Party's electoral list in the 2016 parliamentary election as was returned for a second term when the list won twenty-nine mandates.[9] The Socialists continued their alliance with the Progressive Party and remained in government after the election. Paunović is currently a member of the assembly's culture and information committee; a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region, the committee on Kosovo-Metohija, and the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.[10]

References
  1. SNEŽANA PAUNOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 May 2018.
  2. "Serbia: Nikola Tesla Airport announces new appointments," Esmerk Eastern European News, 13 February 2015.
  3. SNEŽANA PAUNOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 16 May 2018.
  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. "Serbian [sic] appoints coordinators for relocated Kosovo municipal administrations," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 28 June 2010 (Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 0909gmt 28 Jun 10).
  6. "Kosovo Serb representatives said satisfied after meeting with Serbian president," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 23 December 2018 (Source: Radio B92 text website, Belgrade, in English 0000 gmt 21 Dec 12).
  7. 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)"), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
  8. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. маj 2012. године, ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 24. октобра 2013. године), accessed 16 May 2018.
  9. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
  10. SNEZANA PAUNOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 16 May 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.