Ana Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Пешић; born 1987) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

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Pešić was born in Ćićevac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] She has a degree in philology, focusing on English language and literature.[2]

Politician

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Municipal politics

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Pešić received the fifth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Ćićevac municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local elections[3] and was elected when the list won eight out of twenty-five mandates.[4] This election was won by a local political alliance, and the Progressives served in opposition.[5] She was promoted to the fourth position on the party's list in the 2020 local elections[6] and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with eleven mandates.[7]

Member of the National Assembly

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Pešić received the 140th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[8] and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. She is now a member of the assembly's European integration committee; a deputy member of the foreign affairs committee and the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Sierra Leone; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with China, Germany, Greece, Japan, Malta, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.[9]

References

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  1. ^ ANA PEŠIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 25 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  3. ^ Službeni List, Volume 36 Number 9 (14 April 2016), Municipality of Ćićevac, p. 2.
  4. ^ Službeni List, Volume 36 Number 10 (25 April 2016), Municipality of Ćićevac, p. 1.
  5. ^ "Zlatan Krkić četvrti put izabran za predsednika opštine Ćićevac", Blic, 13 May 2016, accessed 22 August 2020.
  6. ^ Документа (Zbirna Lista opstine Cicevac.pdf), Izbori 2020, Municipality of Ćićevac, accessed 22 August 2020.
  7. ^ Документа (Odluka o mandatima i izvestaj OIK), Izbori 2020, Municipality of Ćićevac, accessed 22 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  9. ^ ANA PESIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.