Bogić Bogićević

Bogić Bogićević
6th Bosnian member of the Yugoslav Presidency
In office May 16, 1989 – April 27, 1991
Preceded by	Raif Dizdarević
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Personal details
Born	Ugljevik
Nationality	Serb
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bogić Bogićević (Богић Богићевић) is a Bosnian statesman of Bosnian Serb ethnicity, born in Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (present day Bosnia and Herzegovina). He was a politician of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a statesman of leftist political orientation.

Bogić Bogićević was the first office-holder in Second Yugoslavia at the federal level to be democratically elected, as the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991.

Bogićević is famous for having defied fellow Serb colleagues from Serbia on a vote in the presidency which would have imposed martial law in Yugoslavia and allow the Yugoslav army to remove recently elected secessionist governments, particularly in Croatia and Slovenia, as well as in Macedonia and his native Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bogićević rejected the proposal, and thus by one vote, the Yugoslav collective presidency voted against enacting martial law.

Wartime period 1992 to 1995 he spent in Sarajevo under the siege. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and vice president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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