Tanja Tomašević Damnjanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Тања Томашевић Дамњановић; born 1982) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career
Tomašević Damnjanović has a Bachelor of Laws degree. She lives in Vršac, Vojvodina.
Political career
Tomašević Damnjanović received the 123rd position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In electoral list for the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates. During her first term in parliament, she was the deputy chair of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government, and was a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (where Serbia has observer status). She also participated in a regional forum on judicial reform held in Budva, Montenegro, in June 2015, in which she advocated for Serbia's national strategy for improving the independence of the judiciary. She was promoted to the seventy-fifth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Serbia is winning list for the 2016 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won 131 mandates.
She is currently a member of the assembly's committee on Kosovo-Metohija; a deputy member of the European integration committee, the environmental protection committee, and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States of America.
References
- TANJA TOMAŠEVIĆ DAMNJANOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 9 July 2018.
- Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- Mirjana R. Milenković, "Đilasovi i Tadićevi traže posebno ministarstvo za ekologiju", Danas, 24 April 2014, accessed 9 July 2018.
- "Tanja u Budvi govorila o reformi srpskog pravosuđa", http://evrsac.rs/, 26 June 2018, accessed 9 July 2018.
- Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- TANJA TOMASEVIC DAMNJANOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 9 July 2018.