 On 4 March 2016, it was confirmed that he was a member of the electoral list of ministers to the National Assembly of Serbia as member of a group of independents in the coalition led by Aleksandar Vučić and the Serbian Progressive Party.Lazanski became a member of the Board on Defense and Internal Affairs, as chosen by the National Assembly by 22 June 2016.He resigned from the assembly on 25 September 2019 after being appointed as Serbia's ambassador to Russia.