Ana Čarapić

Čarapić was born in Kuršumlija, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She holds a bachelor's degree as an economist.^[1]

Čarapić received the 141st position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.^[2] The list won 131 out of 250 mandates, and Čarapić was not initially elected; she was able to take a seat in the assembly on 21 September 2017 as a replacement for Aleksandra Đurović, who had resigned to take a diplomatic position.^[3] During this sitting of the assembly, Čarapić was a member of the committee on the economy, regional development, trade, tourism, and energy; a deputy member of the environmental protection committee; the head of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Bolivia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.^[4]

She was given the 174th position on the successor Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was elected to a second term when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.^[5] She is now a member of the committee on finance, state budget, and control of public spending; a member of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction; a deputy member of the committee on spatial planning, transport, infrastructure, and telecommunications; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Bolivia; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, and Spain.^[6]