Milan Knežević (Montenegrin politician)
Milan Knežević Милан Кнежевић | |
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| Born | 24 March 1980 Titograd, SFR Yugoslavia (now Podgorica, Montenegro) |
| Political party | Democratic People's Party (President) |
| Alma mater | University of Montenegro |
| Profession | politician and writer |
Milan Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Кнежевић; born 24 March 1980) is a Montenegrin politician and poet who is the founder and current president of the right-wing Democratic People's Party, a member of presidency of the opposition Democratic Front alliance and current Мember of the Parliament of Montenegro as well as the President of the Parliamentary Board for Defence and Security.[1][2]
Biography
Milan Knežević is a Montenegrin writer and politician. He is the President of the Democratic People’s Party of Montenegro (DPP), a parliamentary party in the Parliament of Montenegro. He was born on 24 March 1980 in Podgorica. He lives and works in his hometown. He completed his primary and secondary school in Podgorica. He graduated in Serbian Language and South Slavic Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Nikšić. He speaks Russian and English.
https://www.skupstina.me/me/clanovi-parlamenta/milan-knezevic https://www.biografija.org/politika/milan-knezevic/
Literary work
He has been involved in literature since high school, when he started writing poems. He was declared the best young poet in 1997 by Radio Montenegro and the Library "Radosav Ljumović" Podgorica.
He published six collections of poems and the novel "Obala nesanice". He has been awarded many times for his rich literary work.
He published his first collection of poems “Deponija snova“ in 2007, and then: “Avlija bivših” (2011), “Dnevnik sitnih grehova” (2014), “Elektronska identifikacija birača” (2016), “Nijemi dijalozi” (2017) and “Robijaški refreni” (2020).
He published his first novel "Obala nesanice" in 2021. He moved the plot from Montenegro and satirically portrayed the political and social reality of the country where he lives in. The Association of Writers of Serbia awarded him the "Radoje Domanović" award for the most successful satirical novel published in 2021.
He also worked as a theatre director. He is a member of the Association of Writers of Montenegro.
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Political career
He founded the Democratic People's Party of Montenegro on 30 November 2014. At the founding assembly, he was elected as the first President.
He got involved in the political life of Montenegro during his student days. Until 2012, he was an active member of the Socialist People's Party (SNP). He was elected as a member of the Parliament of Montenegro for the first time in 2009 when he was only 29 years old. In each subsequent election, he managed to win a parliamentary mandate.
Before the 2012 parliamentary elections, he joined the Democratic Front political alliance. He participated in the elections within this coalition as the "Group of Voters - Milan Knežević". The Democratic Front won 20 parliamentary mandates.
Two years later, on 30 November 2014, the Democratic People's Party (DPP) was formed, whose President he has been since its foundation until today.
The Democratic People's Party was on the list of the Democratic Front in the 2016 parliamentary elections. They won a total of 18 mandates.
MPs from opposition parties started boycotting the Parliament because they believed that the elections were not held in a fair and democratic atmosphere.
After that, the leaders of the Democratic Front, Milan Knežević and Andrija Mandić, were accused of attempting a "coup d'état" on the day of the parliamentary elections on 16 October 2016.
The Democratic Front led a broad coalition in the parliamentary elections on 30 August 2020. The joint list "For the Future of Montenegro" won 27 parliamentary mandates out of the 81 that the Parliament has. With the coalitions "Peace is Our Nation" and "In Black and White", a parliamentary majority was formed, sending the Democratic Party of Socialists with the leader Milo Đukanović into opposition after their rule for thirty years.
Knežević was entrusted with the leadership of the Parliamentary Security and Defence Committee.
In the early parliamentary elections on 11 June 2023, Knežević was the holder of the "For the Future of Montenegro" list, composed of the Democratic People's Party, of which he is the leader and the New Serbian Democracy. The coalition won 13 mandates. He was awarded the fifth consecutive parliamentary mandate.
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President of the Parliamentary Security Committee
As the Chairperson of the Parilametary Security and Defence Committee, and a member of the National Security Council, he showed a high degree of responsibility and was very active. Responding to current events in the security sector, he scheduled meetings of the Committee with the assessment, that Montenegro's security and socio-political context is dramatic and does not inspire confidence that there is enough capacity for the state to deal with organised crime and cigarettes and drugs smuggling.
Due to the seriousness of the situation in the security sector caused by the arrest of high-ranking police officers on the charge of being collaborators of criminal clans, the Security Committee decided on 13 April 2023 to interrogate the Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, Minister of Internal Affairs Filip Adžić, Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović, Head of the Special Police Department Predrag Šuković, director of the Police Administration Zoran Brđanin and director of the National Security Agency, Boris Milić.
As a writer, politician and leader of the Democratic People's Party, he perseveres on his honourable path of fighting for the identity of Montenegro, with the respect of all its peoples, as a country for all people of good faith and intention, for the good of Montenegro.
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References
- ^ Predsjednik, DNP official web site
- ^ "LOŠE VESTI ZA DPS: Milan Knežević dobio važnu funkciju u Crnoj Gori". NOVOSTI (in Serbian). Retrieved 2020-12-18.