Zoran Lilić

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Zoran Lilić
Зоран Лилић
2nd
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
In office
25 June 1993 – 25 June 1997
Prime MinisterRadoje Kontić
Preceded byDobrica Ćosić
Succeeded bySlobodan Milošević
3rd President of the National Assembly of Serbia
In office
25 January 1993 – 29 June 1993
Preceded byAleksandar Bakočević
Succeeded byZoran Aranđelović
Personal details
Born (1953-08-27) 27 August 1953 (age 70)
Brza Palanka, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partySocialist Party of Serbia (1990–2000)
SpouseLjubica Brković Lilić (m. 1980)[1]
ChildrenDarko Lilić
Parents
  • Sokol Lilić (father)
  • Dobrila Lilić (mother)

Zoran Lilić (

President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
from 1993 to 1997.

Biography

He was born to a Serb father and a

Romanian mother.[citation needed] He finished primary and secondary school in his native village. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Technology and worked in the rubber factory "Rekord" in Rakovica
. After twelve years of performing various duties, he was appointed director general.

He was an MP of the

Third Yugoslavia until 1997, though it was generally understood he was a puppet for Serbian president Slobodan Milošević
.

In 1994, Lilić called on the "extreme fractions in RS and RSK to stop holding the entire Serbian people hostage."

In 1997, Milošević was termed out of the Serbian presidency, and was elected to the federal presidency. Lilić became the SPS candidate to succeed Milošević as president of Serbia. After the unsuccessful second round with Vojislav Šešelj he became vice president of the Federal Government in the cabinet of Momir Bulatović, and he remained on this duty until April 1999. year when he was appointed advisor to the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević for economic relations with Croatia. At that time he performed the functions of chairman of Jugotransport and the president of Chess Association of Yugoslavia. He left SPS in 2000 founded the Serbian Socialdemocratic Party, which he claims to be following the idea of Svetozar Marković. His party did not have success in election.

Lilić involved himself in attempting to sort out the HIV trial in Libya, where four Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for allegedly infecting Libyan babies with the HIV virus. Lilić reportedly falsely posed as an envoy or messenger of the Bulgarian president, Georgi Parvanov.[3]

References

Political offices
Preceded by
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1993–1997
Succeeded by