Boris Tadić

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Boris Tadić

Boris Tadić ( Cyrillic  Борис Тадић , pronunciation ? / I ; born January 15, 1958 in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia ) was Serbian President from July 2004 to May 2012 . The psychologist was the chairman of the Demokratska Stranka (Democratic Party) until 2014 . The first time Tadić was elected President of Serbia on June 27, 2004, he took the oath of office on July 11 of the same year. On February 3, 2008, he was re-elected for a second, five-year term, and on February 15, he swore the oath. Before the presidency, Tadić was Minister of Telecommunications in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Minister of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro . Audio file / audio sample

Tadić is considered “ liberal ” and, like Zoran Đinđić before him, stands for far-reaching internal reforms in the country. He is in favor of Serbia joining the European Union , but only with Kosovo as part of Serbia. He is considered pro-Western and has good relations with the Russian Federation as well as the United States of America and the European Union.

On April 4, 2012, he announced his early resignation in order to pave the way for the new election of the president parallel to the parliamentary elections on May 6, 2012 . He was defeated in the election by his rival Tomislav Nikolić , whom he had beaten in the last two elections, and was replaced as chairman of the Democratic Party by Dragan Đilas in November 2012 . He then resigned from the Democratic Party and founded a new party, the Nova demokratska stranka (New Democratic Party), which was later renamed Socijaldemokratska stranka (SDS, Social Democratic Party).

Life

Early life

Boris Tadić was born in Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina , a republic at the time in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . His father Ljubomir was a philosopher and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . His mother Nevenka is a psychologist. Boris's grandparents were killed by the Ustaša during World War II .

His parents often moved to different cities. From Sarajevo they moved to Paris , where they pursued their doctoral theses just before Boris was born. When Boris was three years old, the Tadić family moved to Belgrade , where his father got a job with the Liberation newspaper .

Boris Tadić studied social psychology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade . He was the founder and first director of the "Center for the Development of Democracy and Political Skills".

Political career

Tadić has been a member of the Democratic Party since 1990, which he has also chaired since 2004. In 2002 he was Minister of Telecommunications in the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Minister of Defense in the Government of Serbia and Montenegro .

On June 27, 2004 he won in the second round the election against Tomislav Nikolić from the nationalist Radical Party with 53.24 percent of the vote and a voter turnout of 47.7 percent. Previously, the minimum participation clause for 50 percent of eligible voters, which had caused previous election attempts to fail several times, was repealed by a government reform of the electoral law.

On December 6, 2004, Tadić was the first Serbian president to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina since the Bosnian War in 1995 . He apologized for the human rights violations committed by Serbs during this war. However, he emphasized that the Serbs deserved such an apology from the Bosniaks .

In the presidential elections in February 2008, Tadić was able to prevail against his challenger Tomislav Nikolić in the second ballot, as in 2004. His Democratic Party scored a surprise success against the Radical Party in the 2008 parliamentary elections .

On October 3rd, 2008 he was awarded the Quadriga Prize . On a ranking of the most influential European politicians published by Telewizja Polska in January 2009, Boris Tadić ranks 10th.

In the presidential election in Serbia in 2012 he was defeated in the second ballot on May 20 by his challenger Tomislav Nikolić , who had meanwhile founded the much more moderate Serbian Progressive Party . The fundamental difference to the Serbian Radical Party was its emphatically pro-European positioning.

After he announced on November 5, 2012 that he would no longer be available for the chairmanship of the Democratic Party, he was replaced by Dragan Đilas on November 21 .

Private life

Boris Tadić is married to Tatjana Tadić (birth name Rodić) with whom he has two children. Before that he was married to Veselinka Zastavniković, but they divorced childless . Tadić has a sister who is a well-known psychologist. In addition to his mother tongue , Tadić speaks English and French .

literature

Web links

Commons : Boris Tadić  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tadić: Niko da se ne meša u izbore - B92 (April 9, 2008) (Serbian)
  2. ^ Tadic suits everyone but problems remain - RIA Novosti (April 2, 2008) (English)
  3. Tadic Victory Could Topple Fragile Coalition in Serbia - Spiegel Online International (April 2, 2008) (English)
  4. Pro-Western Tadic wins Serbia's presidential election - CBC News (February 3, 2008) (English)
  5. Pro-Western Tadic wins new term in Serbia runoff - CNN (February 3, 2008) (English)
  6. Spiegel.de
  7. a b Belgrade mayor is the new leader of the opposition DS. B92.net, November 26, 2012.
  8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7394339.stm
  9. Blic Online : Tadić na listi najuticajnijih Evropljana ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blic.rs
  10. Serbian ex-president resigns
  11. Zaredila se bivša žena Borisa Tadića - Pincom.info (October 27, 2007) ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Serbian language) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pincom.info
  12. Ko je ovaj čovek? - Glas Javnosti (September 11, 2000) (Serbian language)