Lav Grigorije Pajkić (; born 25 October 1995) is a

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n politician,

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and

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and

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. He is 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 ...

(SNS) and is currently serving as the state secretary in the ministry of labour, employment, veteran and social policy since 16 December 2022. Prior to this, he was a member of the

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from 2020 to 2022.

Early life and career

Pajkić was born on 25 October 1995 in

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. His father,

Nebojša Pajkić Nebojša Pajkić ( sr-cyr, Небојша Пајкић; born 25 November 1951) is a Serbian screenwriter. He is a professor of film dramaturgy, writer, director and film critic. Biography In 1971, Pajkić moved to Belgrade for university studies ...

, is a screenwriter while his late mother, Isidora Bjelica, was a writer. His grandfather is a Serbian

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, Dimitrije Bjelica. He is a student at the

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. At the age of 20, he was appointed director of the non-profit Serbian Scientific Television, and a year later he was admitted to the

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, making him the youngest member of that organization in

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, if not in the world. In 2017, Pajkić received his own late-night talk and

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television program on the pro-government

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called "Kontravizija" He has been criticised for promoting the

and its president

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as well as for deceiving the public and faking surveys. Pajkić is a fierce critic of the opposition politicians, often insulting them and marking them as traitors. In one of his episodes, he compared another Serbian talk show host, Ivan Ivanović to human faeces.

Political career

Pajkić was the president of the youth organization of the Serbian People's Party (SNP), led by Nenad Popović. He is currently a member of the

and was given the 148th position on the Progressive Party's ''

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 ...

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for the

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. The list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates out of 250, and Pajkić was sworn in as a member of the

on 3 August 2020. He was a member of the foreign affairs committee and the culture and information committee, a deputy member of the committee on constitutional and legislative issues, the leader of Serbia's parliamentary friendship group with

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, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with

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, and the

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. He was reelected again In 2022 parliamentary elections but resigned in November of 2022 as he was appointed as state secretary in the ministry of labour, employment, veteran and social policy, and could not hold both positions.

Personal life

Pajkić is religious and is a member of the

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. In 2017, he announced on Facebook that he had become a

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with the blessing of

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References

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