Stojanka Lekić (; born 1960) is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the Assembly of Vojvodina since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private life and career Lekić is from Zrenjanin and holds a bachelor's degree in economics.Stojanka Lekić, Zelena poslanička grupa, accessed 23 January 2021.
Politician Lekić was given the ninth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial electionИзборна листа 5 - ПОКРЕНИМО ВОЈВОДИНУ-ТОМИСЛАВ НИКОЛИЋ:СРПСКА НАПРЕДНА СТРАНКА, НОВА СРБИЈА, ПОКРЕТ СОЦИЈАЛИСТА, ПОКРЕТ СНАГА СРБИЈЕ-БК - кандидати за посланике, Избори 2012, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 January 2021. and was elected when the list won fourteen mandates. The Democratic Party and its allies won the election, and the Progressives served for the next four years in opposition. During this term, Lekić was chair of the gender equality committee; a member of the committee for education, science, culture, youth, and sports; and a member of the province's council of national communities. She was also the founder and first co-ordinator of the women's parliamentary network in the Vojvodina assembly and a member of the informal green parliamentary group, and she served as a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Chamber of Regions in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.Stojanka Lekić, Zelena poslanička grupa, accessed 23 January 2021."Sastanak komiteta za upravu i tekuće poslove Kongresa regionalnih i lokalnih vlasti Saveta Evrope", Stalna konferencija gradova i opština, 20 July 2015, accessed 23 January 2021.
Vojvodina adopted a system of full proportional representation prior to the 2016 provincial election. Lekić was promoted to the seventh position on the Progressive listИзборне листе за изборе за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (Изборна листа 1 - АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ Изборна листа), Избори 2016, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 7 July 2020. and was re-elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. During the 2016–20 term, she chaired the assembly's youth and sports committee."SNS: SARADNJA POKRAJINE I GRADA BIĆE MNOGO KVALITETNIJA", Zrenjaninski, 23 June 2016, accessed 23 January 2021. She was also given Vojvodina's annual award in the field of gender equality in 2018."Stojanka Lekić a primit recunoștință în domeniul egalității în drepturi", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 5 February 2018, accessed 23 January 2021.
Lekić was elected to a third term in the 2020 provincial election; she received the thirteen position on the Progressive list and was re-elected when it won seventy-six seats.Изборне листе кандидата за посланике у Скупштину Аутономне покрајине Војводине (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – ЗА НАШУ ДЕЦУ.), Izbori 2020, Provincial Election Commission, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 1 January 2021. She was once again chosen as leader of the women's parliamentary network in Vojvodina after the election,"Zrenjaninke na čelu Ženske parlamentarne mreže u Skupštini Vojvodine", Zrenjaninski, 17 December 2020, accessed 23 January 2021. and she is a member of the committee on youth and sports and the committee on gender equality.Stojanka Lekić, Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, accessed 23 January 2021.
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