Ivan Stambolić
| Ivan Stambolić Иван Стамболић |
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| President of the Presidency of Serbia | |
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In office 5 May 1986 – 14 December 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Dušan Čkrebić |
| Succeeded by | Petar Gračanin |
| President of the Executive Council of Serbia | |
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In office 6 May 1978 – 5 May 1982 |
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| Preceded by | Dušan Čkrebić |
| Succeeded by | Branislav Ikonić |
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5 November 1936 Brezova, Ivanjica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | 25 August 2000 (aged 63) Fruška Gora, FR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Political party | SKJ |
| Spouse(s) | Kaća Stambolić |
Ivan Stambolić (Serbian: Иван Стамболић; 5 November 1936 – 25 August 2000) was a Communist Party of Yugoslavia official and the President of the Presidency of Serbia in the 1980s who was later victim of an assassination.
His uncle was the politician Petar Stambolić.
Stambolić graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. In spring 1986, he became the President of the Presidency of Serbia. He was a mentor and a close personal friend to Slobodan Milošević, and supported him in the elections for the new leader of the League of Communists of Serbia, to the dismay of the other leaders in the party. Stambolić spent three days advocating Milošević's election and finally managed to secure him a tight victory, the tightest ever in the history of Serbian Communist Party internal elections.
Stambolic and Milošević held similar views on the autonomous provinces of Serbia, Kosovo and Vojvodina, both feeling that constitutional changes were necessary to sort out their relationship with the centre. Stambolic managed to win over the League of Communists of Yugoslavia to his position on this matter at the Thirteenth Congress of the LCY, held in 1986, and then set up a commission to work out the details of the constitutional reforms that were eventually passed in 1989. He also wanted to protect the rights of Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo, insisting as early as 1982 that he would speak up for those rights even if his opponents labelled him a Greater Serbian nationalist. Where Milošević and he differed on these matters was Milošević's demand for greater rapidity and his stronger sympathy for Serb demonstrators. It was the issue of speed that was to bring the two into conflict.
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