Gordana Pop Lazić

[1] Serbian and Yugoslavian politics in the 1990s were dominated by the Socialist Party of Serbia under the authoritarian rule of Slobodan Milošević.

On 24 March 1998, during the early period of the Kosovo War, the Socialists formed a coalition government in Serbia that also included the Radicals and the Yugoslav Left.

Pop Lazić was appointed to cabinet as a representative of the Radical Party, serving for two-and-a-half years as minister of public administration and local self-government in the government of Mirko Marjanović.

Pop Lazić was promoted to the symbolically significant fourth position on the Radical Party's list in the 2003 parliamentary election.

[12][13] While the results of the 2008 election were initially inconclusive, the For a European Serbia alliance ultimately formed a new coalition government with the Socialists, and the Radicals again served in opposition.

[14] In November 2009, she attracted some notoriety by throwing a shoe at Democratic Party parliamentarian Gordana Čomić, who was then chairing a legislative debate.

The Radicals won a plurality victory with twenty-six out of fifty-seven seats, and Pop Lazić was subsequently chosen as mayor with support from the Socialists and the Strength of Serbia Movement.