Sanja Žigić (Serbian Cyrillic: Сања Жигић; born 11 October 1970) is a politician in Serbia. She served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020 and is now the president (i.e., speaker) of the municipal assembly of Vrbas. Žigić is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Early life and private career edit
Žigić was born in Vrbas, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She majored in business management at Union University in Belgrade.[1]
Politician edit
Žigić received the ninth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Vrbas municipal assembly in the 2013 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won eighteen out of thirty-six mandates.[2][3] She resigned from the assembly on 7 November 2013, after being appointed as chief of cabinet in the mayor's office.[4][5]
She was subsequently given the sixteenth position on the Progressive Party's list for the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 seats.[6] For the next four years, she served as part of the provincial government's majority in the assembly. She did not seek re-election at the provincial level in 2020.
Žigić was given the tenth position on Progressive list for Vrbas in the 2020 local elections and was elected to a second term at the local level when the list won a majority victory with twenty-two mandates.[7][8] She was chosen as speaker of the assembly on 21 August 2020.[9]
References edit
- ^ СКУПШТИНА ОПШТИНЕ ВРБАС (Сања Жигић), Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 10 February 2021.
- ^ ИЗБОРИ 2013. - ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Збирна изборна листа кандидата за одборнике Скупштине општине Врбас), Opština Vrbas Izbori, Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 10 February 2021.
- ^ ИЗБОРИ 2013. - РЕЗУЛТАТИ (Додељени мандати), Opština Vrbas Izbori, Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 10 February 2021.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 48 Number 14 (7 November 2013), p. 44.
- ^ СКУПШТИНА ОПШТИНЕ ВРБАС (Сања Жигић), Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 10 February 2021. See also Општина Врбас - ПРЕДСЕДНИК ОПШТИНЕ Archived 2014-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 11 February 2021.
- ^ 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. For clarification that Žigić is a member of the Progressive Party, see "ZOBЕNICA: SNS OFORMIO TIM MLADIH I OBRAZOVANIH LJUDI", Serbian Progressive Party – Vrbas, accessed 10 February 2021.
- ^ Изборне листе - Избори 2020, Opština Vrbas Izbori, Municipality of Vrbas, accessed 10 February 2021.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 54 Number 16 (22 June 2020), p. 3.
- ^ Službeni List (Opštine Vrbas), Volume 54 Number 24 (21 August 2020), p. 8.