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Filip Vujanović

Filip Vujanović
Филип Вујановић
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President of Montenegro
Assumed office
22 May 2003
Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Željko Šturanović
Milo Đukanović
Igor Lukšić
Milo Đukanović
Duško Marković
Preceded by Rifat Rastoder (Acting)
Dragan Kujović (Acting)
In office
25 November 2002 – 19 May 2003
Acting
Prime Minister Milo Đukanović
Preceded by Milo Đukanović
Succeeded by Rifat Rastoder (Acting)
Dragan Kujović (Acting)
Prime Minister of Montenegro
In office
5 February 1998 – 5 November 2002
President Milo Đukanović
Preceded by Milo Đukanović
Succeeded by Dragan Đurović (Acting)
Personal details
Born (1954-09-01) 1 September 1954 (age 62)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
(now Republic of Serbia)
Political party Democratic Party of Socialists (1993–present)
Spouse(s) Svetlana Vujanović (1985–present)
Children 3
Alma mater University of Belgrade
Website Official website

Filip Vujanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Вујановић, pronounced [fîlip ʋǔjanɔʋit͡ɕ]) (born 1 September 1954) is the President of Montenegro since 2003. He is the country's first President since its independence in June 2006. He claimed a landslide victory in the April 2008 presidential election, and he was narrowly re-elected in 2013.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Vujanović graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. Between 1978 and 1981 he worked in one of the city's Municipal Courts, and later also as an assistant at the Belgrade District Court. In 1981, aged 27, he moved to Titograd. Following a short stint as secretary at Titograd's District Court, he worked as a lawyer until entering politics in March 1993.

Vujanović joined the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in 1993 upon the invitation of Montenegrin federal President Momir Bulatović following the creation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Montenegro and Serbia) in the wake of the break-up of the previous Yugoslavia.

He was Minister of Justice in Milo Đukanović's pro-Slobodan Milošević government (1993–1996), and then Interior Minister from 1996 to 1998 after Đukanović switched loyalty and turned against Milošević. During the 1997 DPSM leadership conflict, Vujanović initially declared neutrality. He eventually sided with Milo Đukanović after Đukanović won the presidential election. Đukanović then appointed Vujanović as the first Prime Minister of Montenegro; Vujanović served in that post from 5 February 1998 until 8 January 2003.


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