Lav Pajkić
Лав Пајкић
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
3 August 2020
Personal details
Born (1995-10-25) 25 October 1995
Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Political partySerbian Progressive Party
Serbian People's Party
Parents
Alma materFaculty of Dramatic Arts
ProfessionProducer, politician

Lav Grigorije Pajkić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лав Григорије Пајкић; born 25 October 1995) is a Serbian film and television producer as well as a television presenter. He is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and is currently serving as a member of the National Assembly.[1][2]

Early life and career

Pajkić was born on 25 October 1995 in Belgrade.[3] His father, Nebojša Pajkić, is a screenwriter while his late mother, Isidora Bjelica, was a writer.[4] His grandfather is a Serbian chess FIDE Master, Dimitrije Bjelica.

He is a student at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.[5]

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 Trilateral Commission, making him the youngest member of that organization in Europe, if not in the world.[2]

In 2017, Pajkić received his own late-night talk and news satire television program on the pro-government TV Pink called "Kontravizija"[6] He has been criticised for promoting the Serbian Progressive Party and its president Aleksandar Vučić as well as for deceiving the public and faking surveys.[7] Pajkić is a fierce critic of the opposition politicians, often insulting them and marking them as traitors.[8][9] In one of his episodes, he compared another Serbian talk show host, Ivan Ivanović to human faeces.[9]

Political career

Pajkić was the president of the youth organization of the Serbian People's Party (SNP), led by Nenad Popović.[3] He is currently a member of the Serbian Progressive Party and was given the 148th position on the Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list for the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.[10] The list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates out of 250, and Pajkić was sworn in as a member of the National Assembly on 3 August 2020.[11][2] He is now 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 Burundi, and a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with Egypt, Germany, Israel, Morocco, Turkey, and the United States of America.[12]

Personal life

Pajkić is religious and is a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church. In 2017, he announced on Facebook that he had become a pilgrim with the blessing of Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Počela je Skupština i imamo nove poslanike zbog kojih ćemo menjati kanal". Noizz.rs (in Serbian (Latin script)). 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  2. 1 2 3 "Otvoreni Parlament". otvoreniparlament.rs. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  3. 1 2 3 Stojanović, Piše: Marija. "Lav Grigorije Pajkić: "Njuzovac" sa hadžilukom". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  4. ↑ "ONAJ KO JE RUŽNIJI, GLUPLJI TREBA DA BUDE IZVRGNUT RUGLU: Ovako otac Lava Pajkića pravda njegov humor (VIDEO)". espreso.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  5. ↑ "DIREKTOR, MENADŽER, PREDSEDNIK, SVE SA 22! Ovo su sve funkcije Lava Pajkića o kome danas bruji cela zemlja! (VIDEO)". espreso.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  6. ↑ "POČELA JE KONTRAVIZIJA: Pripremite se za nekontrolisani smeh i mnogo bisera! (FOTO)". Pink.rs | Najbrži portal u Srbiji (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  7. ↑ Živanović, Piše: K. "Ekipa "Kontravizije" ponovo obmanjuje javnost". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  8. ↑ urednika, Lana AvakumovićZamenica glavnog (2018-10-01). "Gde je granica slobode izražavanja? Pravna odgovornost za izjavu Lava Pajkića o Janku Baljku". Talas.rs. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  9. 1 2 Petrović, Piše: Dragoljub. "Kako preživeti "Kontraviziju"?". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  10. ↑ "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  11. ↑ M.R.M, Piše (2020-08-03). "Konstituisan 12. saziv Skupštine Srbije, izbor predsednika možda u ponedeljak (FOTO)". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  12. ↑ LAV-GRIGORIJE PAJKIC, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, accessed 25 January 2021.
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