Jelena Vujić Obradović

Jelena Vujić Obradović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Вујић Обрадовић; born 1979), formerly known as Jelena Vujić, is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of United Serbia (Jedinstvena Srbija, JS).

Private career

Vujić Obradović is a graduate lawyer. She lives in Aleksandrovac.^[1]

Political career

United Serbia has been aligned with the Socialist Party of Serbia in every parliamentary election since 2008. Vujić Obradović received the 109th position on the Socialist-led electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election; the list won forty-four mandates, and she was not elected.^[2] She was promoted to the thirty-second position in the 2016 parliamentary election, in which the Socialist alliance won twenty-nine mandates.^[3] She was not initially elected but was awarded a mandate on 5 October 2016 as a replacement for Srđan Kružević, who had resigned.^[4]

Vujić Obradović is a deputy member of the assembly's foreign affairs committee; a deputy member of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a deputy member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United States of America.^[5] United Serbia provides outside support to the government of Serbia, and Vujić Obradović serves in the assembly as a supporter of the ministry.

References

1. JELENA VUJIC OBRADOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 July 2018.
2. Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС)") Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
3. Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ – „Социјалистичка партија Србије (СПС), Јединствена Србија (ЈС) – Драган Марковић Палма“) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 27 February 2017.
4. Додела мандата » Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 5. октобра 2016. године“) Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 4 July 2017. Serbia's 2011 electoral law stipulates that, in the event of the resignation of a member elected on a coalition list, the vacant mandate will fall to the next candidate on the list from the same party. See Law on the Election of Members of the Parliament (2000, as amended 2011) (Article 92) made available via LegislationOnline, accessed 28 February 2017.
5. JELENA VUJIC OBRADOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 18 July 2018.