25 Facts About Vjerica Radeta

Vjerica Radeta is a prominent figure in the far-right Serbian Radical Party and has served several terms in the Serbian parliament.

Vjerica Radeta was secretary of the Zemun municipal assembly in the late 1990s, when the Radicals governed the municipality.

Vjerica Radeta was given the fifth and final position on the Radical Party's electoral list for New Belgrade in the 2000 Yugoslavian Chamber of Citizens election.

Vjerica Radeta ran for the Belgrade city assembly in the concurrent 2000 Serbian local elections and lost to a candidate of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia in Zemun's eleventh division.

Serbia held a new parliamentary election in December 2000, and Vjerica Radeta appeared in the forty-second position on the Radical Party's list.

Vjerica Radeta could have been included in the SRS delegation at the start of parliament despite her low position on the list, but she was not.

Vjerica Radeta received a mandate on 25 March 2003 as the replacement for another SRS member who had resigned.

Vjerica Radeta was given the thirty-fifth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election and was awarded a mandate for a second term when the list won eighty-two seats.

Vjerica Radeta was included in the twelfth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2007 parliamentary election and was given a mandate for a third term when the party won eighty-one seats.

Vjerica Radeta served as deputy chair of the legislative committee and as a member of the judiciary committee and the constitutional affairs committee; she was a member of Serbia's republic election commission during this time.

Vjerica Radeta appeared in the eighth position on the SRS list in the 2008 parliamentary election and was again included in her party's delegation when the list won seventy-eight seats.

In July 2008, Vjerica Radeta took part in a Belgrade rally against the Serbian government's decision to extradite former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague for crimes committed during the Bosnian War.

Vjerica Radeta remained with the Radicals and was considered a leading figure in the party's hardline wing.

Vjerica Radeta received the sixth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2012 parliamentary election and was given the same position in the 2014 election.

Vjerica Radeta became the deputy leader of the SRS assembly group and was elected as one of the assembly's six deputy speakers.

Vjerica Radeta was a member of the committee on constitutional and legal issues, the committee on the rights of the child, and the judiciary committee; a deputy member of the administrative committee; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Belarus, Russia, and Venezuela.

Vjerica Radeta insulted Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina leader Tomislav Zigmanov in May 2018, calling him an Ustasha.

Vjerica Radeta deleted her Twitter account in the aftermath of the controversy.

Seselj contended that Vjerica Radeta's tweet had been "clumsily" expressed and its meaning misunderstood; Vjerica Radeta, he said, had meant to imply that Mehmedovic's husband and sons had faked their deaths and were still alive in exile under assumed names.

Vjerica Radeta was given the fifth position on the SRS list in the 2020 parliamentary election and was promoted to the fourth position for the 2022 and 2023 elections.

Vjerica Radeta appeared in the fifth position on the SRS list for the Zemun municipal assembly in the 2004 Serbian local elections and was elected when the list won a plurality victory with twenty-six out of fifty-seven mandates.

Vjerica Radeta did not seek re-election at the municipal level in 2008.

Vjerica Radeta was appointed as a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 25 June 2007 and continued in this role until 1 November 2012.

An indictment was later filed against Seselj and four other Radical Party officials in August 2023; Vjerica Radeta was not included in the indictment.

Notwithstanding her own arrest warrant, Vjerica Radeta was appointed as leader of Seselj's defense team.