Vesna Marković

Marković is an economist living in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun.[1]

Marković received the thirty-ninth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won seventy-three mandates.[2] The Progressive Party subsequently formed a coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and other parties, and Marković served as part of its parliamentary majority. She was given the forty-eighth position on the party's successor Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list in the 2014 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 seats.[3] During the following sitting of parliament, she served as a member of the parliamentary committees on foreign affairs and European integration and was a member of Serbia's parliamentary delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative.[4][5]

Marković was granted the fifty-fourth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning list in the 2016 election and was elected to a third term when the list won a second consecutive majority with 131 seats.[6] During the 2016–20 parliament, she continued to serve on the European integration committee, and was a member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues; a member of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA); the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Germany; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, and the United States of America.[7]

In October 2017, she wrote an opinion piece in Danas highlighting the importance of Serbia's co-operation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Among other things, this article referenced Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's apology to Serbian noncombatant victims of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[8] She subsequently delivered a speech at the OSCE PA in February 2020 that accused authorities in Montenegro of discriminating against Serbian people, speakers of the Serbian language, and believers of the Serbian Orthodox Church.[9]

Marković received the 119th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election[10] and was elected to a fourth term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She is now the deputy chair of the foreign affairs committee; continues to serve on the European integration committee and the stabilization and association committee, as well as leading Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Germany; leads Serbia's delegation to the OSCE PA; and is a member of the friendship groups with Cyprus, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.[11]