Nevenka Kostadinova (Serbian Cyrillic: Невенка Костадинова; born 1972) is a politician in Serbia from the country's Bulgarian community. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since October 2019 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career edit
Kostadinova has a bachelor's degree in chemistry. She lives in Bosilegrad, a predominantly Bulgarian community in Serbia's southeastern corner.[1]
Politician edit
Municipal politics and the Bulgarian National Council edit
Kostadinova was elected to the Bosilegrad municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections at the head of a combined electoral list of the United Regions of Serbia (URS) and Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS). This list won four mandates, and she subsequently led the alliance's group in the local assembly.[2] She also received the 116th position on the URS list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election;[3] the list won sixteen mandates, and she was not elected.
The URS ceased to exist after the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, and Kostadinova joined the Progressive Party. She was re-elected to the Bosilegrad assembly at the head of the party's list in the 2016 Serbian local elections. The Progressives won ten mandates, emerging as the only opposition in the assembly to an independent group led by mayor Vladimir Zahariev.[4]
Kostadinova was also elected to Serbia's Bulgarian National Council in 2014 on an electoral list headed by Zahariev.[5] This notwithstanding, she emerged as a prominent local opponent of Zahariev after the 2016 municipal election, charging him with responsibility for the withdrawal of proposed investment in the municipality by the Bulgarian company Kalinel.[6] She received the third position on a rival list led by Stefan Kostov in the 2018 national council election and narrowly missed re-election when the list won only two mandates.[7][8]
Zahariev subsequently aligned himself with the Progressive Party. Kostadinova was not a candidate for re-election at the local level in 2020.
Parliamentarian edit
Kostadinova was awarded the 150th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was not initially elected when the list won a majority victory with 131 seats. Following the departure of other elected members further up the list, she was awarded a mandate on 7 October 2019.[9]
She received the 131st position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[10] and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now a member of the environmental protection committee; a deputy member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; a member of Serbia's delegation to the South-East European Cooperation Process parliamentary assembly; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Israel, Japan, Jordan, North Macedonia, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.[11]
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Službeni glasnik (Grada Vranja), Volume 19 Number 18 (29 May 2012).
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. маj 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (УЈЕДИЊЕНИ РЕГИОНИ СРБИЈЕ - МЛАЂАН ДИНКИЋ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 January 2020.
- ^ Službeni glasnik (Grada Vranja), Volume 23 Number 16 (17 May 2016).
- ^ Kostadinova received the fourth position on Zahariev's list, which won a narrow majority with ten of the council's nineteen seats. See Избори за чланове националног савета бугарске националне мањине, одржани 26. октобра 2014. године (непосредни избори), ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ("Будућност у коју верујемо" - др Владица Димитров / "Бдеше в което вЯрваме" - д-р Владица Димитров) and РЕЗУЛТАТИ ИЗБОРА (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора за чланове Националног савета бугарске националне мањине), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 January 2020.
- ^ Александър Димитров, "Изтеглянето на българският „Калинел“ – главна тема на пресконференцията на СНС в Босилеград", Glas Press, 18 October 2017, accessed 2 January 2020.
- ^ Проглашене изборне листе (Изборна листа „ДА ВРАТИМО ДОСТОЈАНСТВО НАРОДУ“ - СТЕФАН КОСТОВ / Решење о проглашењу Изборне листе „ДА ВРАТИМО ДОСТОЈАНСТВО НАРОДУ“ - СТЕФАН КОСТОВ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 January 2020.
- ^ Национални савет БУГАРСКЕ националне мањине, Укупни резултати избора за националне савете националних мањина (Извештај о укупним резултатима избора), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Невенка Костадинова, нов депутат в Народното събрание на Р. Сърбия", TV Info Bosilegrad, 7 October 2019, accessed 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ NEVENKA KOSTADINOVA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 23 January 2021.