Biljana Pantić Pilja
Biljana Pantić Pilja (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Пантић Пиља; born May 11, 1983), formerly known as Biljana Pantić, is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.
Private career
[edit]Pantić Pilja has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law. She is a lawyer by profession and has worked with the firm Vučević since 2011.[1] She lives in Novi Sad.[2]
Politician
[edit]Municipal politics
[edit]Pantić Pilja received the forty-sixth position on the electoral list of the far-right Serbian Radical Party for the Novi Sad municipal assembly in the 2008 Serbian local elections.[3] The party won twenty-six out of seventy-eight mandates,[4] and Pantić Pilja did not serve in its assembly delegation.[5]
The Radical Party experienced a serious split later in 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Pantić Pilja sided with the Progressives.
Parliamentarian
[edit]Pantić Pilja was given the sixtieth position on the Progressive Party's Let's Get Serbia Moving electoral list in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[6] The list won seventy-three mandates, and she was accordingly elected. After the election, the Progressive Party formed a new coalition government with the Socialist Party of Serbia and other parties; Pantić Pilja served as part of its parliamentary majority. She was promoted to the thirty-sixth position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In list for the 2014 parliamentary election and was re-elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates.[7] In the 2016, she received the eighteenth position on the Progressive Party's list and was re-elected when it won a second consecutive majority with 131 mandates.[8]
During the 2016–20 parliament, Pantić Pilja was the deputy chair of the assembly committee on the judiciary, public administration, and local self-government; a member of the European integration committee; a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; the head of the parliamentary friendship group with Cyprus; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Azerbaijan, China, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States of America.[9]
Pantić Pilja is also a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; she was first appointed as a substitute member in 2014 and was promoted to a full member in 2016. She sits with the European People's Party group; is a member of the committee on equality and non-discrimination and the committee on migration, refugees, and displaced persons; and is an alternate member of the committee on the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights.[10] In January 2020, she was appointed as vice-chair of the latter committee.[11] She was also appointed to the sub-committee on refugee and migrant children and young people in March 2019 and has served as a member of the sub-committee on gender equality on two occasions.[12]
She received the forty-second position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election[13] and was elected to a fourth term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. She remains deputy chair of the judiciary committee, a member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, and the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Cyprus. She is a member of the friendship groups with Azerbaijan, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ R. Balać, "Ko je Biljana Pantić Pilja, poslanica SNS koja je oplela po nezavisnim televizijama", Danas, 4 December 2020, accessed 21 December 2020.
- ^ BILJANA PANTIĆ PILJA, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 11 May 2018.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 16 (30 April 2008), p. 295.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 19 (20 May 2008), p. 333.
- ^ Službeni List (Grada Novog Sada), Volume 27 Number 23 (17 June 2008), pp. 361-362.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине, 6. мај 2012. године, ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (POKRENIMO SRBIJU - TOMISLAV NIKOLIĆ) Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године; ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ - BUDUĆNOST U KOJU VERUJEMO) Archived 2018-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
- ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
- ^ BILJANA PANTIC PILJA, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 14 July 2020.
- ^ Biljana PANTIĆ PILJA, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 11 May 2018.
- ^ "Елвира Ковач и Биљана Пантић Пиља изабране у ПССЕ", Dnevnik, 29 January 2020, accessed 14 July 2020.
- ^ Ms Biljana PANTIĆ PILJA, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, accessed 14 July 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ BILJANA PANTIC PILJA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 21 December 2020.