Vojislav Koštunica
| Vojislav Koštunica | |
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| 8th Prime Minister of Serbia | |
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In office 3 March 2004 – 7 July 2008 |
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| President |
Dragan Maršićanin (Acting) Vojislav Mihailović (Acting) Predrag Marković (Acting) Boris Tadić |
| Deputy |
Miroljub Labus Ivana Dulić-Marković Božidar Đelić |
| Preceded by | Zoran Živković |
| Succeeded by | Mirko Cvetković |
| 4th President of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 7 October 2000 – 7 March 2003 |
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| Prime Minister |
Momir Bulatović Zoran Žižić Dragiša Pešić |
| Preceded by | Slobodan Milošević |
| Succeeded by | Svetozar Marović (Serbia and Montenegro) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 March 1944 Belgrade, German-occupied Serbia |
| Political party |
Democratic Party (1990–1992) Democratic Party of Serbia (1992–2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Zorica Radović |
| Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodoxy |
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Vojislav Koštunica (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Коштуница, pronounced [ʋǒjislaʋ koʃtǔnit͡sa]; born 24 March 1944) is a former Serbian politician. He was the last president of Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003, and the prime minister of Serbia in two terms (from 2004 to 2007, and from 2007 to 2008).
He was one of the founders and the first president of the Democratic Party of Serbia since its creation in 1992 until 19 March 2014, when he resigned as party president and retired from active politics after his party failed to reach 5% threshold to enter the Parliament on March 16 elections for the first time in its history. In October 2014, he left the party after disagreements with new party leadership over what he saw as their abandonment of the policy of political neutrality.
In November 2014, he was one of the founders of Statehood Movement of Serbia.
Koštunica was born on 24 March 1944 in his family home in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. As a youth he went by the nickname 'Voja'. He was educated in Belgrade, where he finished elementary school, and graduated from the Second Belgrade High School in 1962. Koštunica enrolled in the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law the same year, graduating in 1966. He earned his master's degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1974 with his thesis "Institutionalized Opposition in the Political System of Capitalism".
Koštunica was an assistant at the faculty from 1970 until 1974, when he left due to a political purge at the university for criticising the communist regime of Josip Broz Tito. After his expulsion, Koštunica worked at the Institute of Social Sciences, and from 1981 at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, where he engaged in the protection of human rights, specifically in the defence of freedom of thought and expression.
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