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Blaža Knežević

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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

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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

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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]

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