a coalition with Boris Tadić and his Democratic Party independently of the People's Party, she and other such members were expelled from the URS. The party is now defunct and she is a member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party. In the 2004 Serbian local election she was elected Mayor of Novi Sad, for the first time by popular vote, beating then mayor Borislav Novaković. She thus became the first woman to perform mayoral duties in Novi Sad's history. She was elected President of the National Assembly of Serbia on 23 April 2014. In 2018, Freedom House reported that Gojković conducted parliamentary proceedings in an extremely partisan way, with a huge number of interruptions and penalties handed to opposition MPs. In addition, she was criticized for suggesting to MPs from ruling coalition to vote for initiatives and proposals by ringing a bell. On 27 June 2020, Gojković was hospitalized with COVID-19. References 1963 births Living people Presidents of the National Assembly (Serbia) Serbian Radical Party politicians People's Party (Serbia, 2008) politicians Serbian Progressive Party politicians Politicians of Vojvodina 20th-century Serbian lawyers Serbian women lawyers Mayors of Novi Sad Women mayors of places in Serbia University of Novi Sad alumni Deputy Prime Ministers of Serbia Government ministers of Serbia Women government ministers of Serbia Women members of the National Assembly (Serbia)