# 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

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. She lives in Novi Sad.

## Politician
### Municipal politics

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. The party won twenty-six out of seventy-eight mandates, and Pantić Pilja did not serve in its assembly delegation.
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

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. 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. 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.
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.
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. In January 2020, she was appointed as vice-chair of the latter committee. 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.
She received the forty-second position on the Progressive Party's list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election 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.