Aleksandar Farkaš ( sr-cyr, Александар Фаркаш; born 07.05.1976) is a politician in

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. He has served in the

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since 2016 as a member of the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...

Private career

Farkaš holds a

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degree and lives in

Zrenjanin Zrenjanin ( sr-Cyrl, Зрењанин, ; ; ; ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Central Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The city urban area has a population of 67,129 inh ...

. He is not to be confused with a different Aleksandar Farkaš from

Pančevo Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; ; ; ; ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located on the shores of rivers Timiș (ri ...

who is also active with the Progressive Party.

Politician

Farkaš received the thirty-ninth position on the Progressive Party's

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in the

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and was elected when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. During his first term, he promoted a project for the construction of a new sports center in the

Mužlja Mužlja ( sr-cyr, Мужља; ) is a neighborhood of the Zrenjanin city in Serbia. Formerly, it had been a separate village that joined with Zrenjanin in 1981. Name In Serbian language, Serbian the neighborhood is known as ''Mužlja'' or Му� ...

area of Zrenjanin. He received the forty-first position on the Progressive-led ''

Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop (, AV–SNSDS), commonly shortened to just Serbia Must Not Stop, is a parliamentary group in the National Assembly of Serbia, led by the Serbian Progressive Party. SNS gained its parliamentary status ...

'' list in the 2020 provincial election and was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six mandates. He is a member of the assembly committee on national equality and the committee on establishing the equal authenticity of provincial legislation in the languages in official use. In recent years, Farkaš has been involved in an internal party rivalry with

Goran Knežević Goran Knežević ( sr-cyr, Горан Кнежевић, ; born 12 May 1957) is a Serbian politician and former professional basketball player. His father is Vuksan Knežević (b. 1931), former Yugoslav political dissident and writer who was sent t ...

, a dominant figure in the Progressive Party's organization in Zrenjanin."Zbog unutrašnjih sukoba i slabe izlaznosti na izborima, raspušten gradski odbor SNS u Zrenjaninu; SNS: Nisu smene, nego samo postavljanje novog koordinatora"
''Nova srpska politička misao'', 30 June 2020, accessed 2 April 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Farkas, Aleksandar 1976 births Living people Politicians from Zrenjanin Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina Serbian Progressive Party politicians