Ilija Matejić (Serbian Cyrillic: Илија Матејић; born 23 January 1991) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2020 as a member of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Early life and private career

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Matejić was born in Kovačica, Vojvodina, in what was then the Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and is a lawyer by profession.[1] He lives in the village of Crepaja in Kovačica.[2]

Politician

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Matejić appeared in the twenty-fifth position on the Progressive Party's electoral list for the Kovačica municipal assembly in the 2016 Serbian local elections.[3] The list won twenty-one mandates.[4] He was not returned and does not appear to have received a mandate as a replacement delegate over the next four years.

He was given the 176th position on the party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates.[5] He is a member of the assembly committee on constitutional and legislative issues; a deputy member of the European integration committee and the agriculture, forestry, and water management committee; and a member of Serbia's delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.[6]

References

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  1. ^ ILIJA MATEJIĆ, Otvoreni Parlament, accessed 30 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  3. ^ Službeni List (Opština Kovačica), Volume 37 Number 9 (13 April 2016), p. 2.
  4. ^ Službeni List (Opština Kovačica), Volume 37 Number 12 (26 April 2016), p. 1.
  5. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  6. ^ ILIJA MATEJIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 30 November 2020.