Ivana Popović

This article is about the Serbian politician. For the Australian tennis player, see Ivana Popovic.
Ivana Popović
Ивана Поповић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
In office
26 October 2022 – 28 November 2022
In office
3 August 2020 – 1 August 2022
Personal details
Born (1989-02-20) 20 February 1989 (age 35)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partySNS
ProfessionEntrepreneur

Ivana Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Поповић; born 20 February 1989) is a Serbian publisher, entrepreneur, and politician. She has served two terms in the Serbian national assembly and is now a state secretary in the ministry of agriculture, forestry, and water management. Popović is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Early life and private career

Popović was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree as an economist and has been the marketing manager of the journals Ona and Černogorija.[1] After the start of her professional career, she moved to her family's farm at Kržava in the Krupanj municipality and founded the Džemara company, which specializes in jams and also produces sauces, spices, and other food products.[2][3] She was awarded the cup for innovation in agribusiness at the 86th Annual Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad in 2019.[4]

Politician

Parliamentarian and state secretary

Popović was given the fifth position on the Progressive Party's For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[5] This was tantamount to election, and she was indeed elected when the list won a landslide majority victory with 188 out of 250 mandates. During the campaign, she said that her priorities would be small entrepreneurs, youth issues, and ensuring youth have a reason to remain in Serbia.[6]

In her first parliamentary term, Popović was a member of the economy committee[a] and the culture and information committee, a deputy member of the agriculture committee,[b] a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with South Korea, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[7]

Popović received the 129th position on the SNS's Together We Can Do Everything list in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election.[8] The list won a plurality victory with 120 seats, and she was not immediately re-elected. She briefly returned to the assembly in October 2022 as a replacement delegate before standing down the following month.[9][10]

Popović was appointed as a state secretary in Serbia's ministry of agriculture, forestry, and water management in late 2022.[11] In the term that followed, she represented the ministry at various events throughout Serbia, including the "Taste of the South" event in Vlasotince and the fifteenth agricultural fair in Kruševac.[12][13] She was appointed to a second term as state secretary after Serbia's new administration was formed in May 2024.[14]

Municipal politics

Popović received the fifth position the Progressive Party's list for the Krupanj municipal assembly in the 2020 Serbian local elections (held concurrently with that year's parliamentary election) and was elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-five out of thirty-five seats.[15][16] Her term ended on 30 October 2023 when the assembly was dissolved for early elections.[17]

Notes

  1. ^ Formally known as the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy.
  2. ^ Formally known as the Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management Committee.

References

  1. ^ Ivana Popović, Ona, accessed 27 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Ивана Поповић- предузетница из Крупња, пета на листи СНС", krupanj-info.rs, 8 March 2020, accessed 27 June 2018.
  3. ^ Ivana Popović, Džemara Krupanj – dobitnica pehara za inovaciju godine u agrobiznisu Ivana Popović, "Ivana Popović, osnivač i idejni tvorac novog brenda „Džemara“: Moderni začin na srpski način", Ona, 16 December 2018, accessed 27 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Džemara Krupanj – dobitnica pehara za inovaciju godine u agrobiznisu", Ona Magazin, 19 May 2019, accessed 27 June 2020.
  5. ^ "KANDIDAT ZA POSLANIKA IVANA POPOVIĆ IZ KRUPNJA", Srpska Naprenda Stranka (Krupanj), accessed 27 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Young SNS leaders: We will fight for young people to stay in Serbia", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 12 June 2020, accessed 28 June 2020.
  7. ^ ИВАНА ПОПОВИЋ, Archived 2021-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 31 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Ko su kandidati SNS za narodne poslanike?", Danas, 17 February 2022, accessed 17 April 2022.
  9. ^ 1 August 2022 legislature, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 17 October 2024.
  10. ^ "RIK doneo rešenje o dodeli mandata novim poslanicima", Radio Television of Serbia, 7 December 2022, accessed 13 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Sotirovski razgovarala sa ambasadorom Češke o potencijalnim investicijama i projektima u Nišu", Tanjug, 14 December 2022, accessed 23 July 2023.
  12. ^ Saša Stanković, "Peti po redu “Ukusi juga” okupili Vlasotinčane svih uzrsta, a naročito decu", Jugmedia, 30 September 2023, accessed 3 June 2024.
  13. ^ "U Kruševcu održan 15. Poljoprivredni sajam", Radio Televizija Kruševac, 30 September 2023, accessed 3 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Državna sekretarka u Ministarstvu poljoprivrede obišla Topolu nakon nepogoda", Tanjug, 26 June 2024, accessed 9 September 2024.
  15. ^ zbirna izborna lista, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Krupanj, accessed 4 December 2020.
  16. ^ zapisnik o radu-rezultati izbori, Izbori 2020, Municipality of Krupanj, accessed 4 December 2020.
  17. ^ odl.o prestanku mandata odbornika SO Krupanj.pdf, Archived 2023-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, Izbori 2023, Municipality of Krupanj, accessed 8 April 2024.