Nada Lazić
Nada Lazić () is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014 as a member of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina ("Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine", LSV). Early life and career. Lazić was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She completed elementary school and high school in Novi Sad and graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Novi Sad in 1974. She was later a  chemistry professor and university assistant, and for twenty-two years she worked in water protection and related fields for the city of Novi Sad. In 2002, she became an assistant to the Provincial Secretary for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development in the government of Vojvodina. Lazić retired in 2012. Political career. Municipal and provincial. Lazić joined the LSV in 1997, was president of its Women's Forum from 2000 to 2005, and was elected as a party vice-president in 2005 and 2008. She was a member of the Novi Sad council from 2004 to 2008, serving as part of  an LSV-led coalition called "Together for Vojvodina." She appeared on the LSV's "Together for Vojvodina – Nenad Čanak" electoral list in the 2008 Vojvodina provincial election and on the electoral list of another LSV-led coalition in the 2016 election. She did not, on either occasion, serve in the Assembly of Vojvodina afterwards. Member of the National Assembly. In the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, Lazić appeared in the 122nd position on a combined electoral list of the LSV, the Liberal Democratic Party, and other parties. The list won fifteen seats, and she was not selected for a mandate. (From  2000 to 2011, Serbian parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be awarded out of numerical order. Lazić could have been awarded a mandate despite her low position on the list – which was in any event mostly alphabetical – though in fact she was not.) Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. The LSV contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election as part of a coalition led by former Serbian president  Boris Tadić. Lazić received the eighteenth position on the coalition's list and was elected when this list won eighteen mandates. She was re-elected in the 2016 election after receiving the third position on Tadić's Alliance for a Better Serbia coalition list, which again included the LSV and which won thirteen mandates. Lazić has served as a member of the opposition throughout her time in the assembly. The LSV delegates initially served in caucus with the Green Party after the 2016 election. They later served with the Liberal Democratic Party and the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak . At the end of the 2016–20 parliament, they served in a group called Vojvodina Front–Serbia 21. In the 2016–20 parliament, she was a member of the parliamentary agriculture, forestry, and water committee; a member of the environmental protection committee and the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of two other committees; a member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Dimension of the Central European Initiative; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Sweden, and Turkey. She is also a member of an informal parliamentary "Green Group" and often speaks  on pension issues. Lazić is seeking re-election in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election, appearing in the thirty-fifth position on the "United Democratic Serbia" coalition list.