Blaža Knežević () 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 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.BLAŽA KNEŽEVIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 20 September 2017.
Political career Knežević began his political career at the municipal level, serving at one time as leader of the Progressive group on the Šabac municipal council.S. Bečejić, "SNS: Vlast u Šapcu je odgovorna za izlivanje kanala u Gornjoj Vranjskoj," Blic, 5 April 2015, accessed 20 September 2017. 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."Прекинута седница шабачке скупштине", Radio Television of Serbia, 14 October 2015, accessed 20 September 2017.
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.Избори за народне посланике 2016. године » Изборне листе (АЛЕКСАНДАР ВУЧИЋ - СРБИЈА ПОБЕЂУЈЕ) , Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 17 February 2017. 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.BLAZA KNEZEVIC, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 20 September 2017.
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