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Jelena Žarić Kovačević
Jelena Žarić Kovačević ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Жарић Ковачевић; born 2 May 1981) is a Serbian politician who has served as minister of family welfare and demography since 2025. She previously served as minister of public administration and local self-government from 2024 to 2025. She previously served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2024 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Early life and career Žarić Kovačević was born in Niš on 2 May 1981, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She was raised in the city and has both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Niš Faculty of Law. She is a law professor and worked as a lawyer until 2012, when she became deputy secretary of the Niš city assembly. Furthermore, she served in this role until March 2016, when she became president of the city's election commission; she resigned from the latter ...
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Ministry Of Family Welfare And Demography (Serbia)
The Ministry of Family Welfare and Demography ( sr-Cyrl, Министарство за бригу о породици и демографију, Ministarstvo za brigu o porodici i demografiju) is a ministry in the Government of Serbia, created by a vote of the National Assembly of Serbia on 26 October 2020. Before that, similar Ministry of Family Welfare has existed between 1998 and 2001. At the time of the ministry's re-creation in 2020, it was noted that its purpose was to address issues relating to "family protection, marriage, population policy, family planning, the promotion and development of demographic policy, birth rate, and quality and life expectancy." Ratko Dmitrović was appointed as minister two days later when Ana Brnabić's Second cabinet of Ana Brnabić, second cabinet was constituted. After his appointment as minister, Dmitrović said that Serbia's low birth rate should be targeted by both material incentives and by what he described as promoting "the cult of th ...
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