518:, Kovács was promoted to second place on the VMSZ list and was re-elected when the party won four seats. As in the previous parliament, she served as deputy chair of the European integration committee and was a member of the committee on human rights, the committee on the rights of the child, and the friendship groups with Germany and Slovakia. She was also deputy chair of the European Union–Serbia stabilization and association committee, a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues, a member of the working group for the political empowerment of persons with disabilities, and a member of the working group for national minority rights.
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490:(SNS) won the election and afterward formed a new coalition government with the SPS and other parties; the VMSZ declined an offer to join the government and instead served in a mostly nominal opposition role for the next two years. Kovács was a member of the committee on the rights of the child and the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality, a deputy member of the finance committee, and a member of the friendship groups with Germany and Slovakia. She was also briefly a member of Serbia's delegation to the
451:(SPS) after the election, and the VMSZ provided crucial support for the administration in the assembly. Kovács was a member of the labour committee, the committee on development and international economic relations, and the working group on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on agriculture, the committee on petitions and proposals, and the committee for local self-government; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with
418:, who had resigned. (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 assigned out of numerical order. Kovács's specific list position had no formal bearing on whether or when she received a mandate.) In her first term, she was a member of the committee for culture and information. The VMSZ served in
729:(Article 81), that mandates would be given to candidates appearing on the relevant lists (Article 83), and that the submitters of the lists were responsible for selecting their parliamentary delegations within ten days of the final results being published (Article 84). See Law on the Election of Representatives, Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia, No. 35/2000, made available via
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and was elected to a seventh term as the party fell back to five seats. In the 2022–24 term, she was again chosen as a deputy speaker of the assembly, chaired the
European integration committee, and was a member of the foreign affairs committee, the committee on the rights of the child, the
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integration committee, a member of the human rights committee and the committee on the rights of the child, and a deputy member of the labour committee and the health and family committee. She also continued her membership in the friendship groups with
Germany and Slovakia.
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and was re-elected when the list won six seats. Chosen afterward for a third term as deputy speaker, she holds the same committee responsibilities as in the previous parliament and is also a deputy member of the health and family committee.
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Kovács chaired the PACE committee on equality and non-discrimination from 2018 to 2020. She remains a full member of the committee and is also a member of the committee on honouring the obligations and commitments by member states of the
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and was elected to a fourth term when the list won six seats. The VMSZ began supporting Serbia's SNS-led government in the assembly after the election. In this parliament, Kovács was deputy chair of the
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962:Избори за народне посланике Народне скупштине одржани 16. и 23. марта 2014. године – ИЗБОРНЕ ЛИСТЕ (5 Vajdasagi Magyar Szovetseg - Pasztor Istvan - Савез војвођанских Мађара - Иштван Пастор)
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and won a record nine seats. Kovács, who once again appeared in the second list position, was elected to a sixth term. On 22 October 2020, she was chosen as a vice-president (i.e., deputy
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1178:"Elvira Kovač izabrana za potpredsednicu Parlamentarne skupštine Saveta Evrope"
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Hungarian Coalition's electoral list in Zrenjanin for the
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802:, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
716:, Republic Election Commission, Republic of Serbia, accessed 7 April 2024.
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in 2006 and worked in the health and social policy secretariat in the
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1076:, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 31 May 2022.
1032:, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 31 May 2022.
992:, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 May 2022.
940:, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 May 2022.
822:, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 May 2022.
782:, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 29 May 2022.
706:Информације о одржаним седницама 2007. године (18. јул 2007. године)
1122:"Predsednik opštine Sjenica smenjen glasovima koalicionih partnera"
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She again received the third position on the VMSZ list in the
676:, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 13 October 2017.
657:, Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians, accessed 13 October 2017.
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1162:"Kovač: Članstvo u EU strateški cilj Srbije"
858:, Volume 17 Number 18 (3 June 2008), p. 181.
846:, Volume 17 Number 14 (12 May 2008), p. 153.
750:ДЕТАЉИ О НАРОДНОМ ПОСЛАНИКУ: КОВАЧ, ЕЛВИРА,
1128:, 25 November 2023, accessed 17 April 2024.
478:Dačić and Vučić administrations (2012–2017)
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