Dragoljub Mićunović
Dragoljub Mićunović | |
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Драгољуб Мићуновић | |
President of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro | |
In office 3 March 2003 – 4 March 2004 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Zoran Šami |
President of the Democratic Party | |
In office 3 February 1990 – 25 January 1994 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Zoran Đinđić |
Personal details | |
Born | Merdare, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 14 July 1930
Nationality | Serbian |
Political party | |
Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
Occupation |
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Dragoljub Mićunović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Мићуновић Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [ˈdrǎɡɔʎub miˈt͜ɕǔːnɔʋit͜ɕ]; born 14 July 1930) is a Serbian politician and philosopher. As one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he served as its leader from 1990 to 1994, and as the president of the parliament of Serbia and Montenegro from 2000 to 2004.
Early life
Mićunović was born on 14 July 1930 in
After his release, he became an assistant at the
Political career
Mićunović was one of the members of
At the first multi-party elections in Serbia in 1990, he was elected a Member of
He remained the party's president until 1994, when he was squeezed out from the top spot by Zoran Đinđić.[3] Mićunović resigned and with a group of prominent intellectuals, founded the Center for Democracy Fund, a non-governmental organization for the development of civil society and the non-governmental sector, civil education and preparation of political and social reforms.[2]
In 1996, Dragoljub Mićunović founded a new political party, Democratic Centre, of which he was elected president.[3]
At the federal elections in 2000, as one of the leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) coalition, Mićunović was again elected a Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly. After the victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia in October 2000, he was elected President of the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly on November 3, 2000.[2] When the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was established, in March 2003, Dragoljub Mićunović was elected President of the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro on March 3 that year.[5] He held this position to March 3, 2004.[5]
Mićunović was a candidate at the 2003 Serbian presidential election, winning 35.42% of the popular vote, but the election was canceled due to low turnout (the turnout was 38.8%, considerably less than the 50% of eligible voters threshold required by Serbian law).
Dragoljub Mićunović's Democratic Centre party merged into the Democratic Party in 2004,[3] and he was one of the leading candidates on the Democratic Party list in the Serbian Parliamentary elections held on January 21, 2007.
Dragoljub Mićunović is the winner of the first award for tolerance awarded by the Ministry for Human Rights,
References
- ^ "Dragoljub Mićunović: Demokrata". Danas (in Serbian). 16 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Dragoljub Mićunović". ds.org.rs. Demokratska Stranka Srbija.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-78533-891-5.
- ^ Secor, Laura (14 June 2018). "Testaments Betrayed". Jacobin magazine.
- ^ ISBN 978-953-57313-2-0.
- ^ Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
- ^ "Mićunović: Bojkot izbora je besmislen". B92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-10-21.
External links
- Interview with Mr. Mićunović in English
- Memoirs of Mićunović [1] [2] [3] (in Serbian)