Jelena Trivić

Jelena Trivić
Јелена Тривић
Trivić in 2021
Member of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska
In office
19 November 2018 – 15 November 2022
Personal details
Born (1983-08-08) 8 August 1983
Banja Luka, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalityBosnian Serb
PartyPeople's Front (2023–present)
Other political
affiliations		Party of Democratic Progress (until 2023)
SpouseDejan Trivić
Children2
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician, professor

Jelena Trivić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Тривић; born 8 August 1983) is a Bosnian Serb politician and professor who served as member of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska from 2018 to 2022. She was vice president of the Party of Democratic Progress, until she left it in 2023 to establish the People's Front.

Trivić has gained attention for espousing anti-Croat sentiment and for historical revisionism after denying Chetnik war crimes in World War II and the Srebrenica genocide.[1][2]

Early life and education

Trivić was born on 8 August 1983 in Banja Luka, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. She graduated at the Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka in 2006, obtained her master's degree from the University of Bologna in 2007 and gained her doctorate from the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade in 2013.[3]

Trivić is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Banja Luka.[3]

Political career

Trivić publicly supported the group "Justice for David" in the fight for the truth about the death of David Dragičević and strongly condemned the reactions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska who arrested the peaceful protestors in Krajina Square, including Dragičević's parents.[3]

Trivić was elected member of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska following the 2018 general election as a candidate of the Party of Democratic Progress (PDP).[3] She was a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Trade and Tourism and the Committee for Finance and Budget.[4]

Trivić was the joint candidate of the PDP and the Serb Democratic Party for president of Republika Srpska in the 2022 general election.[5][6][7] On election night, she claimed victory despite preliminary data from the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina showing that incumbent Milorad Dodik won with 48% of the vote and around 30,000 more votes than Trivić, alleging voter fraud.[8] After Trivić and Republika Srpska's opposition parties demanded a recount, Dodik's victory was confirmed by election officials weeks later, though Trivić still refused to concede.[9]

In March 2023, Trivić left the PDP and established her own political party, the People's Front.[10]

Political positions

Trivić is a critic of Milorad Dodik and his ruling Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), claiming that Dodik is an "agent of Croatian interests",[11] that he "cannot be trusted"[12] and that "corruption, crime, economic disaster and the SNSD will destroy Republika Srpska."[13]

Trivić has espoused anti-Croat sentiment on several occasions. She has also complained about the usage of the Croatian-language term in an official document of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska, calling it "disgraceful".[14] She also claimed that the leading Croat party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Croatian Democratic Union, aims for the abolishment of Republika Srpska and stated that she doesn't "care about the interests of Croats."[15]

Trivić has claimed that the Chetniks did not commit any mass war crimes during World War II.[1] In July 2021, regarding the Srebrenica genocide, Trivić stated that the "crime that happened in Srebrenica is not genocide, these are facts" and that "Serbs are not people who kneel before the occupier."[2]

Personal life

Jelena is married to Dejan Trivić and has two sons.[3] She also holds Serbian citizenship.[16] Besides her native Serbian, Trivić also speaks English and Italian.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Nadarević, Adis (31 May 2020). "Jesu li Jelena Trivić i Katolička crkva čuli za Krnjeušu?" [Have Jelena Trivić and the Catholic Church ever heard about Krnjeuša?]. Aljazeera Balkans (in Serbo-Croatian). Sarajevo. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Oslobođenje - Ona je budućnost RS-a / Jelena Trivić: Tužite me koliko hoćete, u Srebrenici nije bilo genocida". www.oslobodjenje.ba (in Bosnian). 23 July 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Jelena Trivić | Banjaluka.net" (in Serbian). Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. ^ Darko Trivic (22 November 2018). "Jelena Trivić". NSRS. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  5. ^ Krstojević, Radoš (5 August 2022). "CIK objavio kompletne liste: U trci za predsjednika RS 31 kandidat". Nezavisne novine (in Serbian). Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Jelena Trivić iz PDP-a kandidat opozicije za predsenika RS - Region - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). 14 May 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  7. ^ "OTPOČELA KAMPANjA SRPSKE DEMOKRATSKE STRANKE :: Semberija INFO ::". semberija.info. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Opposition In Bosnia's Republika Srpska Presses For Vote Recount Alleging Voter Fraud". RadioFreeEurope/RadioFreeLiberty. 6 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Bosnia's Dodik declared winner in disputed election". France24. Agence France-Presse. 27 October 2022.
  10. ^ D.Be. (26 March 2023). "Jelena Trivić potvrdila pisanje Klix.ba: Osniva stranku pod nazivom Narodni front" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Trivić za N1: Dodik je agent hrvatskih interesa i službi, pobijedit ću ga". N1 (in Bosnian). 1 September 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  12. ^ "Jelena Trivić: Bakir je kao Dodik, ne možete im vjerovati". N1 (in Bosnian). 16 October 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Trivić: Korupcija, kriminal, ekonomska propast i SNSD uništit će RS". Antikorupcija (in Bosnian). 16 November 2021. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  14. ^ Imamović, Adisa (1 February 2022). "Trivić: Zašto bi se mi borili za treći entitet? To je hrvatska greška iz '90" [Trivić: Why would we fight for the third entity? That is a Croatian mistake from the 1990s]. N1 (in Serbo-Croatian). Sarajevo. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
  15. ^ Tomić, Branko (11 November 2019). "Jelena Trivić: Hrvati su protiv entiteta, a vi kukate nad njihovim položajem u BiH" [Jelena Trivić: The Croats are against the entity and you lament about their situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina]. Srpska.info (in Serbian). Banja Luka. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
  16. ^ Colic, Nina (19 October 2018). "Poslanica Republike Srpske Vučiću: Gde su dokazi o mešanju zapadnih sila u izbore? - Politika - Dnevni list Danas" (in Serbian). Retrieved 15 September 2022.
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