Slobodan Alavanja (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Алавања; born 22 February 1985) is a politician in Serbia. He was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. Alavanja is a member of the Serbian People's Party (Srpska narodna partija; SNP).

Private career edit

Alavanja lives in the Novi Sad municipality of Petrovaradin, in the province of Vojvodina. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sports and Tourism (2012) and a master's degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Security (2014). He has been a fitness trainer, worked for Novi Sad's city administration from sports and youth in 2012–13, and now works at the Provincial Institute for Sports and Sports Medicine.[1] In 2017, he represented the institute on a mission to Russia.[2]

Politician edit

The SNP contested the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election in an alliance with the Serbian Progressive Party. Alavanja received the eighty-sixth position on the party's electoral list[3] and campaigned with party leader Nenad Popović and other SNP members during the election.[4] He was elected when the list won a landslide majority with 188 mandates. He is now a member of the committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region; a deputy member of the committee on education, science, technological development, and the information society; a member of the subcommittee on youth and sports; and a member of Serbia's parliamentary friendship groups with Australia, China, and Russia.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ Слободан Алавања, помоћник директора, Provincial Institute for Sports and Sports Medicine, accessed 27 July 2020.
  2. ^ Слободан Алавања у Русији, 9 October 2017, Provincial Institute for Sports and Sports Medicine, accessed 27 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  4. ^ "МИНИСТАР НЕНАД ПОПОВИЋ ПОСЕТО ВРЊАЧКУ БАЊУ", Vrnjačke Novine, 5 June 2020, accessed 27 July 2020.
  5. ^ SLOBODAN ALAVANjA, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 8 January 2021.