Gordana Kozlovački ( sr-cyr, Гордана Козловачки; born 21 March 1958) is a politician, medical doctor, and administrator in

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. She served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the Democratic Party (''Demokratska stranka'', DS).

Early life and private career

Kozlovački was born in

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; ; ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 67,129 inh ...

, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She studied medicine at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it me ...

and the University of Novi Sad, becoming a medical doctor in 1984, a specialist in internal medicine in 1996, a specialist in nephrology in 2000, and a master manager in the health care system in 2013. She served as director of Zrenjanin's General Hospital ''"Dr Đordje Joanović"'' from 2009 to 2016.

Politician

Municipal politics

Kozlovački received the forty-seventh position on the DS's '' For a European Serbia''

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in Zrenjanin for the

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. The list won twenty-six seats, and she did not take a mandate. She was later given the thirty-sixth position on the DS list in the 2012 local elections and was not elected when the list won fifteen seats. She led the DS's list for Zrenjanin in the 2016 local elections and was elected when the list won four mandates. Her term in the local assembly was brief; she resigned on 12 July 2016.

Provincial politics

Kozlovački appeared in the sixth position on the DS's electoral list in the 2016 Vojvodina provincial election and was elected when the list won ten mandates. The

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...

(''Srpska napredna stranka'', SNS) and its allies won an outright majority, and the DS served in opposition. Kozlovački was appointed to the assembly committees on health and local self-government.''Službeni List (Autonomne Pokrajine Vojvodine)'', Volume 72 Number 38 (20 June 2016), p. 5. The Democratic Party began boycotting Serbia's legislative bodies in 2019, charging that the SNS was undermining democracy in the country. The DS ultimately boycotted the 2020 Vojvodina provincial election, bringing Kozlovački's term in the assembly to an end.

References

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