Biljana Jakovljević

Biljana Jakovljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Јаковљевић; born 1988), formerly known as Biljana Belić, is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Private career

Jakovljević has a master's degree in pedagogy. She lives in Čačak.[1]

Politician

Municipal politics

Jakovljević received the fifty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Čačak city assembly in the 2016 Serbian local elections. The list won thirty-five mandates, and she was not initially returned.[2][3] She was, however, awarded a mandate in September 2019 as the replacement for another party member.[4] During her time in the city assembly, she served as president of the youth council and was a member of the committee for public order and peace.[5] She did not seek re-election at the local level in 2020.

She is the chair of the Progressive Party's local board in the village of Ostra[6][7] and has been active with the party's Academy of Young Leaders program.[8]

She is not to be confused with a Social Democratic Party of Serbia politician from Čačak named Biljana Belić.

Member of the National Assembly

Jakovljević received the 123rd position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election[9] and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates. She is now a member of the assembly committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Lesotho; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[10]

References

1. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
2. ИЗБОРНА ЛИСТА КАНДИДАТА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА ЧАЧКА (Коалиција: Александар Вучић - Србија побеђује), Izbori 2016, City of Čačak.
3. Službeni List, Volume 50 Number 10 (25 April 2016), p. 2.
4. "Sednica Skupštine grada Čačka završena za dan", Info Press, 12 September 2019, accessed 9 August 2020.
5. Stalna radna tela, City of Čačak, accessed 9 August 2020.
6. "Čačanski SNS proslavio deseti rođendan, Ostoja se nije pojavio, bio s Partizanom (FOTO)", Morava info, 14 October 2018, accessed 9 August 2020.
7. "НОВА СЕРИЈА САСТАНАКА МЕСНИХ ОДБОРА", Serbian Progressive Party – Čačak, 13 October 2019, accessed 9 August 2020.
8. "Troje mladih Čačana prošli Akademiju mladih lidera", Epicentar Press, 26 February 2020, accessed 9 August 2020.
9. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
10. BILjANA JAKOVLjEVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 20 January 2021.