Sandra Božić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сандра Божић; born 15 October 1979) is a Serbian politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2018 and as the deputy leader of the For Our Children parliamentary group from 2020 to 2022. She has been a vice president of the National Assembly since 2022.
Sandra Božić | |
|---|---|
| Сандра Божић | |
| Vice President of the National Assembly of Serbia | |
| Assumed office 2 August 2022 | |
| President | Vladimir Orlić |
| Member of the National Assembly of Serbia | |
| Assumed office 6 March 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 October 1979 Pančevo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | SNS |
Early life and private career
editBožić was born in Pančevo, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[1] She holds a degree in political science and was the head of the public utility Grejanje from 2015 to 2018.[2][3]
Political career
editBožić received the 186th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list in the 2014 parliamentary election. The list won a majority victory with 158 out of 250 seats; Božić was not elected and did not serve in assembly that followed.[4] She received the 144th position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list in the 2016 election.[5] The list won 131 mandates and she was once again not immediately elected; she was, however, awarded a mandate on 6 March 2018, as a replacement for Vesna Rakonjac.[6]
During the 2016–20 parliament, Božić was a member of the assembly committee on the rights of the child and the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the defence and internal affairs committee, the health and family committee, and the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, and the United States of America.[7]
Božić and fellow Progressive Party parliamentarian Aleksandar Martinović went on a two-day hunger strike in May 2020, to protest the inaction of Serbia's prosecution and judiciary against what they described as the violent behaviour of Dveri leader Boško Obradović.[8] The strike ended after President Vučić urged the parliamentarians to call it off.[9]
She was promoted to the seventeenth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[10] and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates. After the election, she was chosen as deputy leader of the Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children parliamentary group. She is also the chair of the culture and information committee; a full member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a deputy member of the security services control committee; a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with the United Kingdom; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with China, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.[11]
References
edit- ^ SANDRA BOŽIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 22 March 2018.
- ^ Vladimir Đoković, "PANČEVO: Sandra Božić podnela ostavku – ko će na čelo Grejanja?", 013 Info, 7 March 2018, accessed 22 March 2018.
- ^ SANDRA BOŽIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 December 2020.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ PRVA SEDNICA PRVOG REDOVNOG ZASEDANJA , 06.03.2018, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 22 March 2018.
- ^ SANDRA BOZIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 1 July 2020.
- ^ SANDRA BOŽIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 5 December 2020.
- ^ "Sandra Božić prekinula štrajk glađu", Danas, 11 May 2020, accessed 5 December 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ SANDRA BOZIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 5 December 2020.