Gorica Gajić () is a Serbian politician who has served three terms in the National Assembly of Serbia. She is a member of the New Democratic Party of Serbia (NDSS), which was known until May 2022 as the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS).

Private life Gajić lives in Svilajnac and is a graduated economist."Ko je sve na listi „Metla 2020“ za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 14 May 2020, accessed 26 January 2021.

Politician Gajić joined the DSS on its formation in 1992.Miloš Đošić, "Dan sa poslanicom Goricom Gajić", Danas, 29 February 2020, accessed 18 August 2022.

Member of the Federal Assembly (2004–06) Gajić received the 119th position on the DSS's electoral list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 28. децембра 2003. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The list won fifty-three seats, and she was not afterward included in the party's national assembly delegation."Skupština čeka demokrate", Glas javnosti, 13 January 2004, accessed 29 December 2021. (From 2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.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 7 April 2024. Gajić could have been given a mandate despite her list position, though ultimately she was not.)

By virtue of its performance in the 2003 parliamentary election, the DSS had the right to appoint twenty delegates to the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro in early 2004. Gajić was included in her party's delegation and served on the federal assembly's committee for internal economic affairs and finance."Izbor poslanika u Skupštinu SCG" , Glas javnosti, 12 February 2004, accessed 27 January 2021. The assembly ceased to exist in 2006, when Montenegro declared independence.

Member of the National Assembly (three terms between 2012 and 2024) The DSS contested the 2007 and 2008 Serbian parliamentary elections in an alliance with New Serbia (NS). Gajić was included both times on the coalition's electoral list but was not chosen for a mandate on either occasion.Gajić received the sixty-fourth position in 2007 and the thirty-first position in 2008. See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Демократска странка Србије - Нова Србија - др Војислав Коштуница), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024; Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Демократска Странка Србије - Нова Србија - Војислав Коштуница), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.

Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that all parliamentary mandates were awarded to candidates on successful lists in numerical order. Gajić received the twenty-fourth position on the DSS's list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was not immediately elected when the party won twenty-one seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (6 ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - ВОЈИСЛАВ КОШТУНИЦА), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. After the resignation of other candidates further up the list, she received a mandate on 26 July 2012.Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 25. јула 2012. године, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 28 April 2017. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won the election and afterward formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and other parties, while the DSS served in opposition. During her first term in the national assembly, Gajić was a member of the spatial planning committee, a deputy member of the labour committee, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France and Hungary.GORICA GAJIĆ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 August 2022.

She was promoted to the fifteenth position on the DSS's list for the 2014 election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (3 Демократска странка Србије - Војислав Коштуница), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. On this occasion, the list did not cross the electoral threshold for assembly representation. Gajić was elected to the DSS presidency in October 2014."Umesto jednog četiri DSS?", B92, 20 October 2014, accessed 28 April 2017.

The DSS contested the 2016 parliamentary election in alliance with Dveri. Gajić received the eighth position on their combined list and was elected to a second term when the list won thirteen seats.Избори за народне посланике 2016. године – Изборне листе (5 ДВЕРИ - ДЕМОКРАТСКА СТРАНКА СРБИЈЕ - САНДА РАШКОВИЋ ИВИЋ - БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The SNS and its allies won a majority victory, and the DSS again served in opposition. In the 2016–20 parliament, Gajić was a member of the economy committee and the labour committee, a deputy member of the finance committee and the committee on the rights of the child, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with France, Greece, and Russia.GORICA GAJIĆ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 18 August 2022.

The DSS experienced a serious split in late 2016, after which Gajić, Milan Lapčević, and Dejan Šulkić were the only assembly members who remained with the party.M. R. Milenković, "Ujedinjenjem do veće minutaže", Danas, 7 November 2016, accessed 28 April 2017. See "Poslanik Milan Lapčević napustio DSS" , N1, 11 April 2018, accessed 18 April 2018. Lapčević subsequently left the party as well. In 2019, Gajić criticized the parties of the opposition Alliance for Serbia for boycotting the assembly, describing their decision as rushed and ultimately counterproductive.Miloš Đošić, "Dan sa poslanicom Goricom Gajić", Danas, 19 February 2020, accessed 12 September 2022.

The DSS created a new alliance called METLA 2020 for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, and Gajić appeared in the third position on its list."Ko je sve na listi „Metla 2020“ za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 14 May 2020, accessed 26 January 2021. The list did not cross the electoral threshold. The following year, the DSS and the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) formed a coalition called the National Democratic Alternative (NADA). Gajić received the fourth position on the coalition's list in the 2022 parliamentary election and was elected to a third term when the list won fifteen seats."Ko su kandidati koalicije NADA na parlamentarnim izborima?", Danas, 20 February 2022, accessed 18 August 2022. The Progressives and their allies once again won the election, and the DSS (renamed as the NDSS after the election) remained in opposition.

In her third assembly term, Gajić was a member of the labour committee and a deputy member of the education committee, the health and family committee, and the committee on the rights of the child.GORICA GAJIC, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 May 2024.

She appeared in the twenty-first position on the NADA coalition's list in the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election and was not re-elected when the list fell to thirteen seats. Her term ended when the new assembly convened in February 2024. She is currently the fourth NDSS-endorsed candidate in sequence with the right to enter the assembly as a replacement delegate in the event of a vacancy."Pogledajte ko su kandidati na listi koalicije NADA – Novi DSS i POKS", Danas, 7 November 2023, accessed 25 April 2024.Current Legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 9 May 2024.

Local politics Gajić has served a number of terms in the Svilajnac municipal assembly. She was the DSS's candidate for mayor in the 2004 Serbian local elections, in which mayors were directly elected.Lokalni izbori 2004 - Za gradonačelnika Svilajnca, www.svilajnac001.co.rs, accessed 27 January 2021. Although unsuccessful in that contest, she was chosen afterward as the municipality's deputy mayor and served in this role for the next four years.See "Nisam dobila opštinski stan", Glas javnosti, 6 April 2005, accessed 21 January 2021.

Gajić appeared in the lead position on the DSS's list for Svilajnac in the 2012 Serbian local elections and was re-elected when the list won three mandates.Službeni glasnik (Opštine Svilajnac), 21 April 2012, p. 8.Službeni glasnik (Opštine Svilajnac), 7 May 2012, p. 1. She later led a DSS–Dveri list in the 2016 local elections; this list did not cross the threshold.Р Е Ш Е Њ Е О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ, Municipality of Svilajnac, 13 April 2016, accessed 27 January 2021.И З В Е Ш Т А Ј О УТВРЂИВАЊУ РЕЗУЛТАТА ИЗБОРА ЗА ОДБОРНИКЕ СКУПШТИНЕ ОПШТИНЕ СВИЛАЈНАЦ КОЈИ СУ ОДРЖАНИ 24. АПРИЛА 2016. ГОДИНЕ И РАСПОДЕЛИ МАНДАТА, Municipality of Svilajnac, 25 April 2016, accessed 27 January 2021. In the 2020 Serbian local elections, she was re-elected to the municipal assembly on the list of an alliance called "Only Forward Svilajnac," which won two seats.ЗАЈЕДНИЧКИ ИНФОРМАТОР О РАДУ , Municipality of Svilajnac, December 2020, accessed 27 January 2021.

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