Danijela Veljović () is a politician in Serbia. She served in the Kragujevac municipal assembly from 2012 to 2020 and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 parliamentary election. Veljović is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia.
Private career Veljović has a master of laws degree and is based in Kragujevac.DANIJELA VELJOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 1 January 2021.
Politician Municipal politics Veljović was first elected to the Kragujevac municipal assembly in the 2012 Serbian local elections. The SDPS contested this election in an alliance with the Democratic Party; Veljović received the twelfth position on the latter's Choice for a Better Life electoral list and was elected when the list won exactly twelve mandates out of eighty-seven, finishing in third place."РЕШЕЊЕ О УТВРЂИВАЊУ ЗБИРНЕ ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ ЗА ИЗБОР ОДБОРНИКА СКУПШТИНЕ ГРАДА КРАГУЈЕВЦА", Izbori 2012, City of Kragujevac, p. 3.Službeni List, Volume 22 Number 24 (25 May 2012), City of Kragujevac, p. 12. The SDPS subsequently aligned itself with the Serbian Progressive Party at both the republic and the local level. Veljović received the twenty-fourth position on the Progressive list in the 2016 local elections and was elected for a second term when the list won forty mandates."АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ," Izbori 2016, City of Kragujevac.Službeni List, Volume 26 Number 19 (10 June 2016), City of Kragujevac, p. 12.
She received the seventy-eighth position on the Progressive list in the 2020 local elections.Изборне листе (1. АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.) , City Election Commission, City of Kragujevac, accessed 24 July 2020. This was too low a position for re-election to be a realistic prospect, and indeed she was not re-elected when the list won a majority victory with forty-six mandates. Her low position on the list was presumably due to her candidacy for the national assembly.
Parliamentarian Veljović received the 243rd position out of 250 on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. The list won a majority victory with 131 seats and she was not elected. She was promoted to the seventieth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 election"Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020. and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now the deputy chair of the committee on Kosovo-Metohija; a member of the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Guatemala; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Argentina, Austria, Ecuador, Mauritius, Morocco, Paraguay, Slovenia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.DANIJELA VELjOVIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 1 January 2021.
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