Olivera Karić Nedeljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Карић Недељковић; born 22 April 1959) is a politician and entrepreneur in Serbia. She is the younger sister of Bogoljub Karić and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in 2020 as a member of the latter's Strength of Serbia Movement.[1]
Early life and private career
editNedeljković was born in Peć, Kosovo and Mehotija, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She co-founded Kosovouniverzum with her brothers in Peć in 1979 and worked with the company until 1987. She subsequently co-founded Karić Turist in Belgrade in 1989 and served as a director on its board. Nedeljković has also been active with her family's Braća Karić foundation and has worked in the private sector.[2]
She pursued higher education as a mature student at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Commerce, attaining the title of Doctor of Economics. She has written academic works, including co-authoring the chapter, "Employing women in the western Balkans," in the volume, Women and Sustainability in Business: A Global Perspective (2017).[3] She is also a painter and has had her work exhibited in cities such as Belgrade and Niš; her works feature themes related to spirituality and the Serbian Orthodox Church.[4]
Politician
editEarly candidacies
editNedeljković joined her brother Boguljub Karić's Strength of Serbia Movement on its founding in 2004 and appeared on the party's electoral list for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the 2004 Serbian local elections. [5] The list won five mandates,[6] and she was not selected for its delegation.[7] She later appeared on the Strength of Serbia Movement's electoral lists for the 2007 and 2008 parliamentary elections..[8] In both instances, the list failed to cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly.
The Strength of Serbia Movement subsequently joined an alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party, and its candidates have appeared on the Progressive Party's electoral lists since then.
Municipal politics
editNedeljković appeared in the twenty-third position on the Progressive Party's coalition list for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the 2018 city election and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-four mandates.[9]
Parliamentarian
editNedeljković received the forty-eighth position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election[10] and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 188 out of 250 mandates. She serves with her brother Dragomir Karić, who has been a Strength of Serbia member of the national assembly since 2012.
She is a member of the assembly committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the culture and information committee and the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Kazakhstan; and a member of the friendship groups with Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Venezuela.[11]
References
edit- ^ АКТИВНОСТИ РЕПУБЛИЧКЕ ИЗБОРНЕ КОМИСИЈЕ, ИНФОРМАЦИЈЕ О ОДРЖАНИМ СЕДНИЦАМА (178. електронска седница Републичке изборне комисије 27. јул 2020.), Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 30 July 2020.
- ^ Kiymet Çaliyurt, ed., Women and sustainability in business : a global perspective, (London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group), 2017, p. xvii.
- ^ Women and sustainability in business : a global perspective / edited by Kiymet Çaliyurt., University of Toronto Libraries – Library Catalogue, accessed 16 July 2020.
- ^ "Izložba „Zlatni zraci“ Olivere Karić Nedeljković, posvećena nedavno preminulom Sretenu J. Kariću, biće otvorena specijalnim programom 9.marta u Oficirskom domu u Nišu.", Niške Vesti, 3 March 2018, accessed 16 July 2020.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 24 (8 September 2004), p. 19.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 27 (20 September 2004), p. 1.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Beograda), Volume 48 Number 34 (29 November 2004), p. 1. Her numerical position on the list was irrelevant to her chances of election. From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian elections were assigned to successful parties or alliances rather than to individual candidates, and it was a common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order.
- ^ See Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 21. јануара и 8. фебрауара 2007. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Покрет снага Србије - Богољуб Карић) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 25 August 2017; and Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 11. маја 2008. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (Покрет СНАГА СРБИЈЕ - Богољуб Карић) Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 25 August 2017. She received the 194th position on the list in 2007 and the 199th position in 2008.
- ^ Изборне листе (Изборна листа 1. АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ – Зато што волимо Београд!), Градска изборна комисија (Локални избори 2018), www.beograd.rs, accessed 8 May 2018. Nedeljković received an endorsement from the Progressive Party, since the Strength of Serbia Movement did not have a formal coalition agreement with the Progressives for this election.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ OLIVERA NEDELjKOVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 25 December 2020.