Snežana Petrović (United Pensioners politician)

Snežana B. Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Снежана Б. Петровић; born 1972) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS).

Private career

Petrović is a politicologist based in New Belgrade, one of the municipalities in the city of Belgrade.[1] She has worked at Pošta Srbije for more over twenty-five years. She was head of cabinet in the Pošta Srbije executive from 2012 to 2016, when PUPS leader Milan Krkobabić was the agency's director, and has continued in this role under Krkobabić's replacement, fellow PUPS assembly member Mira Petrović.[2][3]

Political career

The PUPS contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Petrović received the eighty-seventh position on the alliance's electoral list and was elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates.[4] In July 2016, she was selected as chair of the assembly committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy.[5]

Petrović is also a member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee and the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.[6]

References
  1. SNEZANA B. PETROVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 1 June 2018.
  2. "Snežana Petrović from the PUPS chair of the Committee for Economy, Regional Development", Novosti (Source: Beta), 13 July 2016, accessed 1 June 2018.
  3. "Post Serbia - The organizational chart displays its 15 executives, including Mira Petrović and Vera Savatović," The Official Board, 7 May 2018.
  4. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. A different Snežana Petrović, of the Serbian People's Party, appeared in the eighty-sixth position.
  5. "Odbor za privredu vodi poslanica PUPS-a", Radio-Television of Serbia, 13 July 2016, accessed 1 June 2018.
  6. SNEZANA B. PETROVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 1 June 2018.
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