Background
Pantelic was born in Rotterdam, her parents are immigrants from former Yoguslavia.
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Irena Pantelic
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She was raised in Capelle aan den IJssel and attended the Nationale Hogeschool voor Toerisme en Verkeer in Breda.
Career
She was Mission Nederland in 2001. In 2001 she first became Mission Zuid-Holland and later went on to become Mission Netherlands. In 2002 she became a candidate for the Dutch Parliament for the Lijst Pim Fortuyn.
This letter however, was leaked to the press and Irena Pantelic and Antonia Viljac were degraded on the candidate list.
She was not elected in the elections of 2002, which took place only days after the assassination of the party"s controversial leader Pim Fortuyn. She never returned to politics.
After her internship she started working as a model again, mainly in Lebanon and South Africa. Since 2007, she has given birth to three children.
In 2009 she began working as a model again.
In 2012 she became the licence holder for Mission Zuid Holland, the local pageant for pre-selection of candidates for Mission Netherlands. In 2013 she was awarded the Campaign Award at the Dutch Model Awards.
Achievements
Membership
Prior to the 2002 elections, turmoil erupted in the party, because Irena Pantelic and Antonia Viljac accused two other party members of sexual harassment in a letter to the party board.
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