Zoran Žižić
4th Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zoran Žižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Жижић; 4 March 1951 – 4 January 2013) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996,[2] and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000.[3]
Zoran Žižić | |
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Зоран Жижић | |
4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
In office 4 November 2000 – 24 July 2001 | |
President | Vojislav Koštunica |
Preceded by | Momir Bulatović |
Succeeded by | Dragiša Pešić |
Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro | |
In office 15 February 1991 – 24 December 1996 | |
Prime Minister | Milo Đukanović |
Personal details | |
Born | (1951-03-04)4 March 1951 Titograd, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia |
Died | 4 January 2013(2013-01-04) (aged 61) Podgorica, Montenegro |
Nationality | Serb[1] |
Political party | Democratic Party of Socialists (1991–1998) Socialist People's Party of Montenegro (1998–2005) Democratic Party of Unity (2006–2013) |
Žižić resigned from the position of Prime Minister in protest over the extradition of Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY in June 2001.[4] He was part of the hard-line Serbian nationalist wing of the Socialist People's Party and was expelled in 2005 following disagreements with its moderate leader Predrag Bulatović.[5]