Biljana Dragić

Biljana Dragić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Драгић; born 1984) is a Serbian politician. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2022. Elected as a member of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS), she is now an independent.

Biljana Dragić
Биљана Драгић
Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Assumed office
1 August 2022
Personal details
Born1984
Political party

Private career

Dragić is from the village of Kljajićevo in Sombor. She holds a bachelor's degree in general chemistry.[1]

Politician

Dragić appeared in the 235th position out of 250 on the POKS's For the Kingdom of Serbia electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[2] Election from this position was not a realistic prospect, and in any event the list failed to cross the electoral threshold for representation in the national assembly.

The POKS split in late 2021, and for a period of several months two separate organizations claimed to be the legitimately constituted party. These were respectively led by Vojislav Mihailović and Žika Gojković. Dragić sided with Gojković's group.

Parliamentarian

Gojković's political organization held the legal right to use the POKS name in the 2022 parliamentary election, which it contested in an alliance with Dveri. Dragić received the fourth position on their combined list and was elected when the list won ten mandates.[3] Gojković's group won four seats in total; shortly after the election, it lost the rights to the POKS name when Mihailović was legally recognized as the party's leader.[4]

In August 2022, Gojković and two of his allies in the former POKS group, including Dragić, voted for Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) candidate Vladimir Orlić to become the new president of the national assembly. The fourth ex-POKS member, Miloš Parandilović, voted against Orlić and left Gojković's group entirely.[5] Parandilović later accused Dragić of breaking a promise to resign after the first session of parliament to permit another candidate to enter the assembly in her place.[6]

Dragić is a member of the assembly committee on the rights of the child and the parliamentary friendship groups with Canada, Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia. Along with Gojković, she sits in a parliamentary group with members of the Justice and Reconciliation Party (SPP), the United Peasant Party (USS), and the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV).[7]

References
  1. BILJANA DRAGIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 July 2023.
  2. "Ko je na listi koalicije Za Kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 14 March 2020, accessed 18 August 2020.
  3. Vojin Radovanović, "Ko su kandidati za poslanike na listi Patriotskog bloka za kraljevinu Srbiju?", Danas, 23 March 2022, accessed 23 March 2022.
  4. "Vojislav Mihailović dobio ekskluzivno pravo na korišćenje imena POKS - Politika - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 1 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  5. Čekerevac, Mirjana. "Glasanje o Orliću podelilo bivšu frakciju POKS-a". Politika Online. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  6. ""Žika Gojković iz osvete prepustio stranku": Parandilović (POKS) o novom raskolu među obnoviteljima monarhije - Politika - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022. Serbia's electoral system requires that two out of every five positions on valid electoral lists be reserved for female candidates. Parandilović's contention is that Dragić was given a high position on the Dveri–POKS to ensure compliance with this regulation, on the understanding that she would resign shortly after parliament convened.
  7. BILJANA DRAGIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 22 July 2023.
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