Nela Kuburović
{{short description|Serbian lawyer and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Nela Kuburović
| native_name = {{nobold|Нела Кубуровић}}
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| image = Nela_Kuburović.png
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| caption = Kuburović in 2018
| office = Minister of Justice
| primeminister = Aleksandar Vučić
Ivica Dačić {{small|(Acting)}}
Ana Brnabić
| term_start = 11 August 2016
| term_end = 28 October 2020
| predecessor = Nikola Selaković
| successor = Maja Popović
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|04|07|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia
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| nationality = Serbian
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| occupation = Lawyer, politician
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| party = Serbian Progressive Party
| alma_mater = University of Belgrade
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Nela Kuburović ({{lang-sr-cyr|Нела Кубуровић}}, born 7 April 1982) is a Serbian lawyer and politician. She served as the Minister of Justice in the Government of Serbia from 2016 to 2020. Before the appointment, she was Deputy Minister of Justice in the Department of Justice.
Education and career
She finished primary and secondary school in Belgrade. In 2005, she graduated from the University of Belgrade, and passed the professional law exam in 2008.
From 2006, she worked as an assistant judge in the First Belgrade Court, and from 2008 until 2009 as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice. Then she moved to the High Council of Judiciary, as part of the Department of Legislation and from 2013 as part of the Department of The Status of Judges. In 2014, she became Deputy to Minister of Justice Nikola Selaković. In 2016, she became the Minister of Justice in the second cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić.{{cite news|title=Cabinet revealed; Assembly to elect it by end of week|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2016&mm=08&dd=08&nav_id=98841|accessdate=16 February 2017|work=.b92.net|date=8 August 2016|language=Serbian}}{{cite news|last1=Jelovac|first1=Bojana|title=Nela Kuburović za "Blic": Da je Vučić hteo mladu i lepu ministarku, mogao je da nađe i lepšu i mlađu|url=http://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/nela-kuburovic-za-blic-da-je-vucic-hteo-mladu-i-lepu-ministarku-mogao-je-da-nade-i/rj1zrbs|accessdate=16 February 2017|work=blic.rs|publisher=Blic|date=16 September 2016|language=Serbian}}
In February 2017, the Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić decided to run for the 2017 Serbian presidential elections.{{cite news|title=SNS: Jednoglasno - Vučić kandidat za predsednika|url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2017&mm=02&dd=14&nav_category=11&nav_id=1230658|accessdate=29 June 2017|work=b92.net|agency=Tanjug|date=14 February 2017|language=Serbian}} He won the elections in the first round and was sworn as the President of Serbia on 31 May 2017.{{cite news|title=Vucic Sworn in as Serbia's New President Amid Protests|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-05-31/vucic-sworn-in-as-serbias-new-president-amid-protests|accessdate=29 June 2017|work=usnews.com|date=31 May 2017}} Weeks later, he gave mandate to Ana Brnabić to form the governmental cabinet.{{cite news|title=Vučić: Kandidat za predsednika Vlade je Ana Brnabić|url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2017&mm=06&dd=15&nav_category=11&nav_id=1272498|accessdate=29 June 2017|work=b92.net|date=15 June 2017|language=Serbian}} On 29 June 2017, the cabinet of Ana Brnabić was formed,{{cite news|title=Kabinet Ane Brnabić položio zakletvu|url=http://www.danas.rs/politika.56.html?news_id=349757&title=Kabinet+Ane+Brnabi%C4%87+polo%C5%BEio+zakletvu|accessdate=29 June 2017|work=danas.rs|publisher=Danas Online|language=Serbian}}{{cite news|last1=Surk|first1=Barbara|title=Serbia Gets Its First Female, and First Openly Gay, Premier|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/europe/serbia-ana-brnabic-prime-minister.html|accessdate=29 June 2017|work=The New York Times}} with Kuburović keeping her office. In November 2017, she joined the Chairmanship Board of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).{{cite news |title=Ničić već stigao do Predsedništva, izabrani i Mali i Vesić |url=https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2017&mm=11&dd=18&nav_category=11&nav_id=1326844 |accessdate=29 June 2018 |work=b92.net |date=18 November 2017 |language=Serbian}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mpravde.gov.rs/minister.php Министар] at mpravde.gov.rs {{in lang|sr}}
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{{s-bef|before=Nikola Selaković}}
{{s-ttl|title=Minister of Justice of Serbia|years=2016–2020}}
{{s-aft|after=Maja Popović}}
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{{Cabinet of Aleksandar Vučić II}}
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Category:Politicians from Sarajevo
Category:Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Category:Government ministers of Serbia
Category:University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
Category:Women government ministers of Serbia
Category:Female justice ministers
Category:Justice ministers of Serbia
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