Tanja Radovanović (; born 31 March 1969) is a Serbian politician. She served in the Serbian national assembly from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). In 2015, she left the SNS and founded her own political movement.
Early life and private career Radovanović was born in Šabac, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a music teacher and has taught accordion at the "Mihailo Vukdragović" school in the city.TANJA RADOVANOVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 21 December 2024.
Politician Radovanović appeared in the eighty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. The list won seventy-three seats, and she was not immediately elected. The Progressives subsequently formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and other parties, and a number of delegates elected on the SNS list resigned to take government positions. Radovanović was given a replacement mandate on 29 August 2012 and took her seat in the assembly on 31 August.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године – ДОДЕЛА МАНДАТА НАРОДНИХ ПОСЛАНИКА (Одлука о додели мандата народних посланика ради попуне упражњених посланичких места у Народној скупштини од 29. августа 2012. године), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 December 2024. During her assembly term, she was a member of the education committee, a deputy member of the committee on culture and information and the spatial planning committee, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the United States of America.ТАЊА РАДОВАНОВИЋ, , National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 December 2024.
In 2013, the Progressive Party's city board for Šabac was temporarily dissolved amid serious internal divisions, and Radovanović was appointed to a three-member board of trustees."Sukobi među šabačkim naprednjacima", Podrinske, 31 August 2020, accessed 21 December 2024.
She was given the 207th position on the SNS's list for the 2014 parliamentary election and was not re-elected even as the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 seats.Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (1 ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO), , Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024. She subsequently left the SNS and was briefly a member of a local Šabac party called the Village–City Initiative. She launched her own political group called the Progressive Movement (Napredni pokret) in November 2015, indicating that it would be particularly focused on issues of gender equality."ZA SVE KOJIMA JE DOSTA POLITIKE", Glas Podrinja, 5 November 2015, accessed 21 December 2024.
The Progressive Movement contested the 2016 Serbian local elections in Šabac and fell below the electoral threshold for assembly representation.FINAL RESULTS: ELECTIONS FOR DEPUTY MEMBERS OF THE CITY ASSEMBLY OF ŠAPC HELD ON APRIL 24, 2016, "Official Gazette of the City of Šabac and Municipalities: Bogatić, Vladimirci and Koceljeva", No. 9/2016., accessed 14 December 2024. Radovanović has not sought a return to political life since this time.
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