Vesna Nikolić Vukajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Николић Вукајловић; born September 3, 1962) is a politician in Serbia. She is currently serving her second term in the National Assembly of Serbia as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party.
Early life and career edit
Nikolić Vukajlović was born in Aleksandrovac, then part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and has operated a private business since 1999. She is now based in Kraljevo.[1]
Political career edit
Nikolić Vukajlović received the 224th position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] The party won eighty-one seats, and Nikolić Vukajlović was subsequently chosen as part of the party's assembly delegation.[3] (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates. It was common practice for mandates to be awarded out of numerical order; Nikolić Vukajlović's low position on the list did not prevent her from receiving a mandate.)[4] She served as an opposition member of the assembly for the next year. She received the sixtieth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2008 parliamentary election but was not selected for the party's delegation in the sitting of the assembly that followed.[5][6]
Nikolić Vukajlović served as deputy mayor of Kraljevo following the 2008 local elections, when the Radicals formed a local coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and others. She remained in the position until March 2009, when a new local coalition was formed by the Socialists and the For a European Serbia alliance. A report in Politika indicates that Nikolić Vukajlović resisted the transfer of power and was detained by police.[7] She was later expelled from the municipal Radical Party in June 2010,[8] although she was subsequently reinstated.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Nikolić Vukajlović received the fifteenth position on the Radical Party's election list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was elected when the party won twenty-two mandates.[9] She once again serves as an opposition deputy and is a member of the assembly's committee on constitutional and legal issues and the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction. She is a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Greece, Kazakhstan, and Spain.[10]
In the aftermath of the 2017 Serbian presidential election, in which the Radical Party fared poorly, Nikolić Vukajlović was reported as having been critical of the party's central campaign.[11]
References edit
- ^ VESNA NIKOLIĆ-VUKAJLOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 3 May 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Српска радикална странка - др Војислав Шешељ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 14 February 2007 legislature National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 3 May 2018.
- ^ Serbia's Law on the Election of Representatives (2000) stipulated that parliamentary mandates would be awarded to electoral lists (Article 80) that crossed the electoral threshold (Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА - Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 11 June 2008 legislature, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 3 May 2017.
- ^ M. Dugalić, "Tuča tokom primopredaje vlasti u Kraljevu", Politika, 20 March 2009, accessed 3 May 2018.
- ^ D. Stojić, "Stranka ukida fotelju", Novosti, 22 June 2010, accessed 3 May 2018.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (Др ВОЈИСЛАВ ШЕШЕЉ - СРПСКА РАДИКАЛНА СТРАНКА), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 2 March 2017.
- ^ VESNA NIKOLIC VUKAJLOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Šešelj dobio poverenje i odbranio Radetu", Novosti, 14 May 2017, accessed 3 May 2018.