Biljana Rubaković ( sr-Cyrl, Биљана Рубаковић; born 1960) is a

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n politician. She briefly served in the

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in 2016 as a member of the right-wing

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party.

Private career

Rubaković is a professor from

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Politician

Parliamentarian

Rubaković received the thirty-sixth position on Dveri's

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in the

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. During the campaign, she and other female Dveri candidates offered a view of women's rights based around traditional gender roles. The list did not cross the

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to win representation in the assembly. She received the fifth position on a combined Dveri–

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(DSS) list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won thirteen mandates. The

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(SNS) and its allies won a majority victory, and Dveri served in

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. Rubaković's departure from the national assembly was abrupt. On 21 June 2016, Dveri announced that Rubaković would serve as a member of the assembly's health and family committee and the committee for spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications. The following day, however, she resigned her mandate.

City politics in Čačak

Rubaković appeared in the sixth position on Dveri's list for the Čačak city assembly in the

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and was elected when the list won thirteen out of seventy-five mandates. She was promoted to the third position for the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won twenty-one seats, finishing second against the Progressive Party. In 2017, she and other Dveri representatives were cited for disorderly behaviour in the assembly. Dveri boycotted the 2020 elections at both the republic and local levels, and she was not a candidate in the 2020 local elections.

After 2020

Dveri contested the

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in an alliance with

Žika Gojković Žika Gojković ( sr-cyr, Жика Гојковић; born 9 November 1972) is a Serbian politician. He is currently serving his sixth term in Serbia's national assembly. At one time a leading figure in the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO), Gojkovi ...

's branch of the

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(POKS). Rubaković received the thirty-fifth position on their combined list and was not re-elected when the list won ten mandates. She is currently seeking re-election to the Čačak city assembly as the fourth candidate on Dveri's list in the

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.Изборне Листе (Локални 2024) – 3. ПРИМАРИЈУС ДР. МИЛАН РОГАНОВИЋ-СРПСКИ ПОКРЕТ ДВЕРИ-"БОШКО ОБРАДОВИЋ-РАДМИЛА ЖИВКОВИЋ-ДРАГАН ЋЕНДИЋ-БИЉАНА РУБАКОВИЋ"
Čačak City Election Commission, accessed 2 May 2024.

References

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