Ana Čarapić
Ana Čarapić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Чарапић; born 1985) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2017 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and career
[edit]Čarapić was born in Kuršumlija, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree as an economist.[1]
Parliamentarian
[edit]Čarapić received the 141st position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The list won 131 out of 250 mandates, and Čarapić was not initially elected; she was able to take a seat in the assembly on 21 September 2017 as a replacement for Aleksandra Đurović, who had resigned to take a diplomatic position.[3] During this sitting of the assembly, Čarapić was a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the environmental protection committee; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Bolivia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.[4]
She was given the 174th position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.[5] She is now a member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Bolivia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Spain.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ ANA ČARAPIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 23 September 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ "I Šešeljev sin postao poslanik", B92, 21 September 2017, accessed 23 September 2017. The parliamentary mandate was initially offered to Milan Novaković (No. 139 on the Progressive-led list) and Vladica Dimitrov (No. 140), both of whom declined.
- ^ Ana Carapic, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ ANA CARAPIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.