Tatjana Marković Topalović

Marković Topalović became president of Serbia Centre's city board for Šabac in June 2023.^[2] In October of the same year, she was chosen as a party vice-president.^[3]

Serbia Centre contested the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election as part of the Serbia Against Violence (SPN) coalition. Marković Topalović appeared in the twenty-sixth position on the SPN list and was elected when the list won sixty-five mandates.^[4] The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and its allies won a majority government, and she now serves in opposition with Serbia Centre's assembly group.

Marković Topalović is a member of the spatial planning committee^[a] and the environmental protection committee; a deputy member of the economy committee,^[b] the committee on the rights of the child, and the committee on human and minority rights and gender equality; and a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the parliamentary dimension of the Central European Initiative.^[5]

Marković Topalović sought to become the list holder for the local Šabac Against Violence coalition in the 2023 local elections, which took place concurrently with the parliamentary election. She was rejected in favour of former mayor Nebojša Zelenović, the leader of Serbia's Together (Zajedno) party.^[6] Due to ongoing divisions among Šabac's opposition parties, Serbia Centre ultimately left Šabac Against Violence and contested the local election on a separate list with the People's Movement of Serbia (NPS) and the New Face of Serbia (NLS). Marković Topalović appeared in the lead position and was elected to the city assembly when the list won two mandates.^[7][8]

The SNS and its allies won a majority victory in Šabac. Zelenović's coalition later announced a boycott of the assembly, charging that the election had been stolen.^[9] Serbia Centre opposes the boycott, and Marković Topalović has participated in the assembly as an opposition member.^[10] These events have led to further acrimony among the city's opposition parties and in particular between Marković Topalović and Zelenović.^[11]