Mira Petrović


Mira Petrović is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2012 as a member of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia.

Private career

Petrović is a retired economist based in Belgrade. She worked for several years in the banking sector.

Political career

The PUPS contested the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Social Democratic Party, and Petrović received the 208th position on their combined electoral list. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. The United Pensioners subsequently formed a new electoral alliance with the Socialist Party of Serbia.
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Petrović received the eighth position on the Socialist Party-led electoral lists for 2012 and 2014 elections and was returned when the alliance won forty-four seats on both occasions. The PUPS was included in government from 2012 to 2014 and provided outside support from 2014 to 2016; Petrović served as part of the government's parliamentary majority. She was also appointed to the Radio Television of Serbia radio programming board in late 2012.
For the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election, the United Pensioners joined the Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Petrović received the forty-fifth position on their list and was re-elected when the list a won a landslide victory with 131 out of 250 mandates. In September 2016, she replaced PUPS leader Milan Krkobabić as the acting director of Pošta Srbije. Workers at the state-owned corporation threatened to take strike action in November 2017; one of their demands was Petrović's dismissal as director. This notwithstanding, she remains acting director as of 2020.
During the 2016–20 parliament, Petrović was a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly and its parliamentary friendship groups with China, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
She received the sixty-first position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children coalition list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected to a fourth term in the assembly when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.