Saša Levnajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Саша Левнајић; born 11 April 1980) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career edit

Levnajić graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 2003 and works as a lawyer. He lives in Pančevo, Vojvodina.[1]

Politician edit

Municipal politics edit

Levnajić first sought election to the Pančevo city assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections, receiving the twentieth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list.[2] The list won eighteen seats, and he was not immediately returned.[3] He received a mandate on 9 May 2013 as the replacement for another party member.[4] Levnajić was appointed as the city's deputy mayor on 19 June 2015 and held the position for the following year.[5]

He was promoted to the eighth position on the Progressive list for the 2016 local elections and was elected when the list won a majority victory with thirty-nine of seventy seats.[6][7] For the 2020 local elections, he was given the second position and was re-elected when the list won forty-seven seats.[8][9] As of 2020, he is the Progressive Party's commissioner in Pančevo.[10]

Provincial politics edit

Levnajić was given the sixteenth position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected to the provincial assembly when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 seats.[11] In the sitting of parliament that followed, he was the chair of the assembly committee on regulations.[12]

He received the fourteenth position on the party's list in the 2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won seventy-six seats.[13] He was selected for a second term as chair of the committee on regulations in October 2020.[14] He is also the deputy president of the Progressive Party group in the assembly, a member of the committee on the constitutional and legal status of the province, and a member of the committee on establishing equal authenticity of provincial legislation in languages in official use.[15]

References edit

  1. ^ Damir Zobenica, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 5 January 2021.
  2. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 5 Number 11 (25 April 2012), p. 18.
  3. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 5 Number 12 (7 May 2012), p. 2.
  4. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 6 Number 4 (9 May 2013), p. 38.
  5. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 7 Number 15 (25 June 2015), p. 6.
  6. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 9 Number 8 (13 April 2016), p. 3.
  7. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 9 Number 10 (25 April 2016), p. 17.
  8. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 12 Number 34 (10 June 2020), p. 1.
  9. ^ Službeni List (Grada Pančeva), Volume 12 Number 36 (23 June 2020), p. 1.
  10. ^ "SNS Pančevo: Vandalizam i nasilje u pravnoj državi neće proći, pristojna Srbija će pobediti", Radio Television of Vojvodina Pančevo, 9 July 2020, accessed 2 February 2021.
  11. ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020.
  12. ^ Većinsko 'ne' za Srpsko-ruski centar u Vojvodini, B92, 8 May 2018, accessed 2 February 2020.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Čanak jedini poslanik opozicije koji je predsednik skupštinskog odbora, pogledajte ko su ostali", 021.rs, 4 November 2020, accessed 2 February 2021.
  15. ^ Saša Levnajić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 2 February 2021.