Slobodan Milošević | |
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Milošević at the signing of the Dayton Agreement in 1995
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3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
In office 23 July 1997 – 7 October 2000 |
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Prime Minister |
Radoje Kontić Momir Bulatović |
Preceded by | Zoran Lilić |
Succeeded by | Vojislav Koštunica |
1st President of Serbia | |
In office 11 January 1991 – 23 July 1997 |
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Prime Minister |
Dragutin Zelenović Radoman Božović Nikola Šainović Mirko Marjanović |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by |
Dragan Tomić (Acting) Milan Milutinović |
14th President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Serbia | |
In office 8 May 1989 – 11 January 1991 |
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Prime Minister | Desimir Jevtić Stanko Radmilović |
Preceded by |
Petar Gračanin Ljubiša Igić (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born |
Požarevac, Nazi-occupied Serbia |
20 August 1941
Died | 11 March 2006 The Hague, Netherlands |
(aged 64)
Nationality | Serbian |
Political party |
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1959–1990) Socialist Party of Serbia (1990–2006) |
Spouse(s) | Mirjana Marković (1971–2006) |
Children | Marko and Marija |
Alma mater | University of Belgrade Faculty of Law |
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a. ^ Became "President of the Presidency" of the Socialist Republic of Serbia (a constituent country of SFR Yugoslavia) on 8 May 1989. After SFR Yugoslavia collapsed, he continued as the first President of the Republic of Serbia (a constituent of the newly formed FR Yugoslavia) from 11 January 1991. |
Slobodan Milošević (pronounced [slobǒdan milǒːʃeʋitɕ]; Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. He rose to power as Serbian President after he and his supporters claimed the need to reform the 1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia due to both the marginalization of Serbia and its political incapacity to deter Albanian separatist unrest in the province of Kosovo.
His presidency of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was marked by several major reforms to Serbia's constitution in the 1980s to the 1990s that reduced the powers of the autonomous provinces in Serbia and in 1990 transitioned Serbia from a Marxist–Leninist one-party system to a multi-party system, attempted reforms to the 1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia, the breakup of Yugoslavia and the outbreak of the subsequent wars, the founding of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by the former SFRY republics of Serbia and Montenegro, negotiating the Dayton Agreement on behalf of the Bosnian Serbs that ended the Bosnian War in 1995, and his overthrow in 2000.