Nikola Lazić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Лазић; born 26 May 1999) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2020 to 2022 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Twenty-one years old at the time of his inauguration, he is currently the youngest member of the Serbian parliament.[1] On May 1, 2024, he was elected again as a deputy in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, after the withdrawal of the previous deputies, as 132 on the list "Aleksandar Vučić - Serbia must not stop".
Nikola Lazić | |
|---|---|
Никола Лазић | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 3 August 2020 – 1 August 2022 | |
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 26, 1999 Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Political party | Serbian Progressive Party |
Private career
editLazić lives in Belgrade.[2] He was recognized as a physiotherapeutic technician after graduating from a specialized high school program[3] and is a student at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Megatrend University. His mother, Verica Lazić, has been an advisor to Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić on social and health issues since 2017.[4] Nikola also founded the largest festival for young people, the Balkan Youth Fest, which took place in Belgrade in August 2023 and gathered over 20,000 young people.[5]
Politician
editLazić received the 160th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 out of 250 mandates.[6] He is now a member of the assembly committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; a member of the subcommittee on youth and sports; the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with Uganda; and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Cuba, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Spain, and Turkey.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Лазић: Велика одговорност бити најмлађи народни посланик", Radio Television of Vojvodina, 2 August 2020, accessed 15 September 2020.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ Најмлађи српски посланик је студент 'Мегатренда', srbin.info, 4 August 2020, accessed 15 September 2020.
- ^ Miloš D. Miljković, "Nova lica sa liste vladajuće SNS u Narodnoj skupštini", Danas, 6 August 2020, accessed 15 September 2020.
- ^ "Nikola Lazić: "Belgrade Youth Fest" biće najveći festival za mlade u regionu". Tanjug.rs. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
- ^ NIKOLA LAZIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.