Vlado Buckovski
| Vlado Bučkovski Владо Бучковски |
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| 5th Prime Minister of Macedonia | |
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In office December 15, 2004 – August 27, 2006 |
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| President | Branko Crvenkovski |
| Preceded by | Hari Kostov |
| Succeeded by | Nikola Gruevski |
| Minister of Defence of Macedonia | |
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In office 1 November 2002 – 17 December 2004 |
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| President |
Boris Trajkovski Ljupčo Jordanovski (acting) Branko Crvenkovski |
| Preceded by | Vlado Popovski |
| Succeeded by | Jovan Manasievski |
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In office 13 May 2001 – 26 November 2001 |
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| President | Boris Trajkovski |
| Preceded by | Ljuben Paunovski |
| Succeeded by | Vlado Popovski |
| Personal details | |
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2 December 1962 Skopje, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | Social Democratic Union of Macedonia |
| Religion | Macedonian Orthodoxy |
Vlado Bučkovski (Macedonian: Владо Бучковски) (born December 2, 1962) is a former prime minister of the Republic of Macedonia, elected by parliament on December 15, 2004. He was previously the defense minister of Macedonia from May 2001 to November 2001 and from November 2002 to December 2004. He was president of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. After the 2006 election defeat by the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE, Radmila Šekerinska took over the party's leadership.
On December 9, 2008, Bučkovski was found guilty of abuse of power while serving as defence minister during an armed conflict in 2001 and sentenced to three and a half years in jail.
Vlado Bučkovski was born on December 2, 1962, in Skopje, Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Republic of Macedonia).
Bučkovski graduated from the Faculty of Law in Skopje in 1986, while he took his M.A. degree in 1992 at the Faculty of Law in Skopje. He took his Ph.D. degree at the Faculty of Law in Skopje in 1998, on topic "Roman and Contemporary Obligation Law".
From 1987 to 1988 Bučkovski worked as an expert collaborator in the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, then part of Yugoslavia. In the period from 1988 to 2002 he worked as a lecturer, collaborator, junior assistant and as an assistant at the Faculty of Law in Skopje, while in 2003 he worked as an associate professor at the same faculty.
In the period from 1998 to 2000 Bučkovski was a member of the State Election Commission; while in 2000-2001 he was a Chairman of Skopje City Council. In the period from May 13 until November 26, 2001 he performed the function of a Minister of Defense in the wide coalition Government. From November 1, 2002 until December 2004, Bučkovski was a member of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in which he performed the function of a Minister of Defense.
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