Marjana Maraš
Marjana Maraš (Serbian Cyrillic: Марјана Мараш; born 1970) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia.
Early life and private career[edit]
Maraš was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She has a degree from the University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Medicine and is currently a graduate student at the same institution.[1]
Municipal and provincial politics[edit]
Maraš has served on the municipal assembly and the municipal council of Vrbas at different times and has been president of the assembly since the 2009 local elections.[2][3]
She received the twenty-fifth position on the Socialist Party's electoral list in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election and the thirtieth position in the 2012 provincial election.[4][5] The party won three and nine seats by proportional representation in these elections, respectively, and she did not receive a mandate in the Assembly of Vojvodina on either occasion.
Maraš is a member of the Socialist Party's provincial committee for Vojvodina and secretary of the party's executive committee in Vrbas.[6]
Member of the National Assembly[edit]
Maraš first ran for the National Assembly in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, in which she received the eighty-first position on the Socialist Party's list. The list won forty-four mandates, and she did not receive a seat.[7]
She was promoted to the twelfth position on the Socialist list in the 2014 election and was elected when, for the second consecutive time, the list won forty-four mandates.[8] She was elected to a second term in the 2016 election, when she received the eleventh position and the list won twenty-nine mandates.[9] The Socialist Party has been a part of Serbia's coalition government throughout Maraš's time in the assembly, and she has served as part of its parliamentary majority.
Maraš is currently a member of the assembly committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; a member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a member of the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; a deputy member of the health and family committee and the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Argentina, Cuba, Malta, Montenegro, Russia, and the United States of America.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ MARJANA MARAŠ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 15 November 2017.
- ^ СКУПШТИНА ОПШТИНЕ ВРБАС, Општини Врбас, accessed 15 November 2017.
- ^ П. Копривица, "СНС и СПС формирају власт у Врбасу", Politika, 30 October 2013, accessed 15 November 2017.
- ^ Изборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне Покрајине Војводине 11. мај 2008. године (Изборна листа 5 - “СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС)-ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС) ” - Душан Бајатовић), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 26 February 2017.
- ^ Кандидати за посланике (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ-СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС), СОЦИЈАЛДЕМОКРАТСКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СДП Србије) (2012), Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 15 November 2017.
- ^ MARJANA MARAŠ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 15 November 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ИВИЦА ДАЧИЋ - "СОЦИЈАЛИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА СРБИЈЕ (СПС), ПАРТИЈА УЈЕДИЊЕНИХ ПЕНЗИОНЕРА СРБИЈЕ (ПУПС), ЈЕДИНСТВЕНА СРБИЈА (ЈС)") Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ 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 17 February 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ MARJANA MARAS, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 15 November 2017.