Blaža Knežević

Serbian politician

Blaža Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Блажа Кнежевић; born 1968) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

## Early life and career[edit]

Knežević was born in Šabac, then part of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is an economist by training.[1]

## Political career[edit]

Knežević began his political career at the municipal level, serving at one time as leader of the Progressive group on the Šabac municipal council.[2] In 2015, he urged that the council meet with a village representative from Mrđenovac who was conducting a hunger strike in protest against a decision to call new local elections.[3]

Knežević received the ninety-first position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list in the 2016 parliamentary election and was elected when the list won 131 mandates.[4] He is currently a member of the parliamentary committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups for Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Japan, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia, and Slovenia.[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ BLAŽA KNEŽEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 20 September 2017.
2. ^ S. Bečejić, "SNS: Vlast u Šapcu je odgovorna za izlivanje kanala u Gornjoj Vranjskoj," Blic, 5 April 2015, accessed 20 September 2017.
3. ^ "Прекинута седница шабачке скупштине", Radio Television of Serbia, 14 October 2015, accessed 20 September 2017.
4. ^ Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017.
5. ^ BLAZA KNEZEVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 20 September 2017.