Kiro Gligorov
| Kiro Gligorov Киро Глигоров |
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| 1st President of Macedonia | |
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In office January 27, 1991 – November 19, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Vladimir Mitkov (as President of SR Macedonia) |
| Succeeded by | Boris Trajkovski |
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May 3, 1917 Štip, Kingdom of Serbia (then controlled by Kingdom of Bulgaria) |
| Died | January 1, 2012 (aged 94) Skopje, Macedonia |
| Nationality | Yugoslav/Macedonian |
| Political party | LCM/SDUM |
| Spouse(s) | Nada Misheva (died in 2009) |
Kiro Gligorov (Macedonian: Киро Глигоров, pronounced [ˈkirɔ ˈɡliɡɔrɔf]), May 3, 1917 – January 1, 2012) was the first President of the Republic of Macedonia, serving from 1991 to 1999. He held various high positions in the political establishment of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including as Secretary of State for Finance in the Federal Executive Council, a member of the Yugoslav Presidency, as well as President of the Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from May 15, 1974 to May 15, 1978.
Born in Štip, Kingdom of Serbia (then under Bulgarian control), Gligorov later graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School. After the defeat of Yugoslavia in 1941, he returned to Skopje, where Gligorov worked as a lawyer until 1943. Afterwards he participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia as a secretary of the Initiative committee for the organization of the Antifascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) and a finance commissioner in the Presidium of ASNOM. He served as Finance Minister of Yugoslavia from 1962 to 1967.
After the promotion of parliamentary democracy in the country in 1990, he became the first democratically elected president of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia on January 27, 1991. On April 16, 1991, the parliament adopted the constitutional amendment for removing the "Socialist" adjective from the official name of the country, and on June 7 the same year, the new name Republic of Macedonia was officially established, hence Gligorov continued his presidency as the President of the Republic of Macedonia.
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