Radomir Lazović
Serbian politician and activist (born 1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radomir Lazović (Serbian Cyrillic: Радомир Лазовић; born 1980) is a Serbian activist, politician, and designer. A co-president of the Green–Left Front (ZLF), he has served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2022.
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Радомир Лазовић | |
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Born | 1980 (age 43–44) Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia |
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Profession | Designer |
Nickname | Mika |
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Born in Belgrade, he studied at the Ninth Belgrade Gymnasium and the University of Belgrade. As a designer, art and technical director, Lazović was involved in the art and civil society scene from 2010 to 2018. He co-founded and led initiatives such as Street Gallery, with whom he organised art exhibitions, and Ministry of Space, where he dealt with urban and cultural policies of Belgrade. A member of the board of directors of the Association of the Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia from 2013 to 2015, he served as its president from 2015 to 2017.
Lazović formally entered politics in 2014, as an activist of the Do not let Belgrade drown (NDB) initiative, which was opposed to the Belgrade Waterfront project and organised several protests against it, beginning in 2015. After the demolition of private property in Savamala, he participated in mass protests from May to October 2016. He was a candidate in the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election, although NDB failed to win any seats. NDB boycotted the 2020 parliamentary election, claiming that the election would not be fair, and later that year, he was elected a member of the Minor Council of NDB. He later took part in the environmental protests in 2021 and early 2022, becoming one of the main figures of the protests. Lazović was the candidate of the We Must alliance for the 2022 parliamentary election. He campaigned on environmentalist, anti-corruption, and anti-economic inequality policies. He was successfully elected, becoming a member of the National Assembly on 1 August and the president of the NDB parliamentary group. NDB was transformed into ZLF, a political party, in July 2023. He was re-elected to the National Assembly in the 2023 parliamentary election.
A critic of Aleksandar Vučić and Serbian Progressive Party's approach towards the environment, Lazović has denounced the far-right, criticised neoliberalism, the Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto, and has supported workers rights. On foreign policy, he supports the accession of Serbia to the European Union, aligning Serbia's foreign policies with the European Union, and implementing sanctions against Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. He co-wrote a book named Dnevnik borbe za naš grad in 2020.