Ljiljana Mihajlović
Ljiljana Mihajlović (; ; born 5 September 1965) is a Serbian politician. She served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party ("Srpska radikalna stranka", SRS). Early life and private career. Mihajlović was born in Zagreb, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Croatia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She is an economist in private life. She left Croatia at the start of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991 and moved to Belgrade. She lives in Zemun, one of Belgrade's constituent municipalities, and is married  to Ognjen Mihajlović, who is also a prominent figure in the Radical Party. Mihajlović joined the Radical Party in 1993. She was chief of staff for party leader Vojislav Šešelj from 1996 until 2002, when Šešelj went to The Hague to face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. After his departure, she acted in the same capacity for deputy leader Tomislav Nikolić. In 1997, Mihajlović was awarded the lease for a Zemun apartment that had previously belonged to an ethnic Croatian family. The family had resided in the apartment since 1966 and only discovered  they had lost their lease after returning from a vacation. This situation occurred during Vojislav Šešelj's tenure as mayor of Zemun; Šešelj presented it to the public as a "victory over the Ustaše." Many understood it as a provocation, intended to stoke existing inter-communal tensions. Mihajlović's lease agreement has been the subject of a protracted legal battle. Politician. Mihajlović ran for the Zemun municipal assembly in the 2000 Serbian local elections, appearing as the SRS's candidate in the municipality's fourth division. She was not elected. She received the 189th position on the Radical Party's  electoral list in the subsequent 2000 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won twenty-two mandates, and she was not included in its assembly delegation. (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 mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Mihajlović could have been awarded a mandate despite her low position on the list, though in the event she was not.) She appeared in the twenty-fifth position on the Radical Party's electoral list for the City Assembly of Belgrade in the  2004 Serbian local elections. The list won twenty-seven mandates; while she was not automatically elected under the electoral law in effect at the time, she was included in her party's assembly delegation all the same. The Democratic Party ("Demokratska stranka", DS) and its allies won the election, and Mihajlović served in opposition. Mihajlović was given the twenty-eighth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2008 parliamentary election and the fifth position on the party's list for Belgrade in the concurrent 2008 local elections. She was not given a mandate at either level. The Radical  Party experienced a serious split later in 2008, with several prominent members joining the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party ("Srpska napredna stranka", SNS) under the leadership of Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Mihajlović remained with the Radicals. Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Mihajlović received the ninth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was promoted to the third position in 2014. The party did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly on either occasion. She  was again given the third position on the party's list for the 2016 election and was this time elected when the party won twenty-two mandates. The SNS and its allies won a majority victory, and Mihajlović again served in opposition for the next four years. During her term in the assembly, Mihajlović was a member of the assembly committee on the Serbian diaspora and Serbs in the region, a deputy member of the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Armenia, Belarus, China, and Venezuela. She appeared  in the third position on the Radical Party's list once again in the 2020 parliamentary election. As in 2012 and 2014, the list failed to cross the electoral threshold.