Serbian Constitutional Court gets new president

NEWS 27.12.201912:13
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The deputy head of the Serbian Constitutional Court, Snezana Markovic has been promoted to President of that court, Belgrade daily Politika said on Friday.

The daily said that she was elected to the post unanimously at a Constitutional Court session on Thursday, December 26 and will take the post on January 26 when the term in office of the current Constitutional Court President Vesna Ilic Prelic expires.  

Under the law, the Constitutional Court President is elected by the majority of the judges of that court in a secret ballot. The term in office is three years and the president can be re-elected.  

Markovic was born in 1959 in Kragujevac and graduated from that city’s University Law School. She was a judge in the Kragujevac District Court and was elected deputy Public Prosecutor in 2002 and to the Constitutional Court in 2016.