Nemanja Zavišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Завишић; born 4 May 1992) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party and is currently a deputy speaker of the assembly.

Private career edit

Zavišić was born in Vrbas, Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, in what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (which had been proclaimed seven days earlier). He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (2016) and a Master of Laws degree (2017) from the University of Novi Sad. He interned in Novi Sad after graduation and returned to work at a law office in Vrbas from 2016 to 2019. He is also a graduate of the two-semester "politiKAS" program.[1]

Politician edit

Municipal politics edit

Zavišić received the thirteenth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for Vrbas in the 2017 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with seventeen out of thirty-six mandates.[2][3] He served as president of the assembly's mandate and immunity commission and did not seek re-election at the local level in 2020.[4]

Assembly of Vojvodina edit

Zavišić received the thirty-seventh position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with seventy-six out of 120 mandates.[5] He was chosen as a deputy speaker of the assembly in July 2020[6][7] and also serves as a member of the committee on regulations and the committee on issues of the constitutional and legal status of the province.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ Vice-President Nemanja Zavišić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 30 March 2021.
  2. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 51 Number 15 (10 April 2017), p. 2.
  3. ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 51 Number 19 (24 April 2017), p. 3.
  4. ^ Vice-President Nemanja Zavišić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 30 March 2021.
  5. ^ Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021.
  6. ^ Nataša Kovačev, "Konstituisana Skupština Vojvodine, Pastor ponovo predsednik", N1, 31 July 2020, accessed 30 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Немања Завишић: Покрајинска влада велики ослонац локалним самоуправама", Dnevnik, 17 August 2020, accessed 30 March 2021.
  8. ^ Nemanja Zavišić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 30 March 2021.