{"id":204648,"date":"2026-03-18T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=204648"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:04:58","slug":"serbian-woman-wins-congressional-primary-in-chicago-melisa-luburic-bin-will-fight-for-washington-in-november-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbian-woman-wins-congressional-primary-in-chicago-melisa-luburic-bin-will-fight-for-washington-in-november-video\/","title":{"rendered":"SERBIAN WOMAN WINS CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY IN CHICAGO! Melisa Luburi\u0107 Bin will fight for Washington in November! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serbian-born Melisa Luburi\u0107 Bin won today in the primary elections in the 8th congressional district in Illinois, and will represent the Democratic Party in November, where she will try to secure a seat in the U.S. Congress in Washington in a race against the Republican candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms. Luburi\u0107 Bin is the second Serbian woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, and she has done so three times, making her the most successful woman of our origin in American politics. She spent six years in the House of Representatives, between 2005 and 2011, after which she withdrew from politics and devoted herself to her family and business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After today\u2019s victory, she issued the following statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was an honor to be your voice in Congress before, and I am deeply moved that you have once again placed your trust in me as your candidate for Illinois\u2019s 8th district in the United States Congress. The voters have spoken, and tonight we begin the work necessary to take our democracy back into our own hands,\u201d said Melisa Luburi\u0107 Bin, adding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur victory tonight is just another step toward the recovery of our country \u2014 rebuilding the \u2018American Dream,\u2019 restoring our American values and Constitution, and doing the real work so that everyone in this country has the opportunity for the future they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Serbian Times reporter recently had the opportunity to attend a reception organized by the politician of Serbian origin. On that occasion, we enjoyed homemade zeljanica and sirnica that she prepared for her guests, and also conducted an exclusive interview with her, which you can watch at the link below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SRPKINJA IZ \u010cIKAGA OPET KANDIDAT ZA KONGRES:Kako je moja zeljanica kreirala ameri\u010dku visoku politiku\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IY6z2BvW1gs?start=5&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/talented-twins-decided-to-play-for-serbia-jug-and-vid-grew-up-in-germany-they-train-at-werder-and-here-is-why-they-chose-the-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TALENTED TWINS DECIDED TO PLAY FOR SERBIA: Jug and Vid grew up in Germany, they train at Werder, and here is why they chose the Eagles!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/bravo-novak-serbian-wunderkind-who-stacked-up-medals-at-olympiads-is-today-a-student-of-the-most-prestigious-college-at-the-famous-cambridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">BRAVO, NOVAK! 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Ms. Luburi\u0107 Bin is the second Serbian woman to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":202559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11779,492,2014,11780,11458,788],"class_list":["post-204648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora","tag-8-kongresni-distrikt","tag-izbori","tag-kongres","tag-malisa-luburic-bin","tag-melissa-luburich-bean","tag-pobeda","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204670,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204648\/revisions\/204670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}