Fahrudin Radončić

Fahrudin Radončić

Fahrudin Radončić (born May 24, 1957 in Berane , Yugoslavia , now Montenegro ) is a Bosnian media entrepreneur and politician .

Life

Radončić, a Bosniak, comes from the Montenegrin part of the Sandžak region. He started his career as a journalist in Bosnia. During the Bosnian War he was press spokesman for the Bosnian army.

After the war , he founded the Dnevni Avaz ( Daily Voice ), which he made the largest daily newspaper in the country and controlled by the “ Stranka Demokratske Akcije ” (SDA) of Alija Izetbegović , the dominant party in Bosnia, at the end of 1995 after the war Editor he is. The publishing house is based in the Avaz Twist Tower , the tallest building in the Balkans . In addition, he also owns the only printing house in the Bosnian capital that also prints competing newspapers, so Radončić also indirectly controls the other media.

Today Radončić is considered the richest man in his country and is also known as "Bosnia's Donald Trump ".

In 2009 he founded the party "Federation for a Better Future" (Savez za bolju budućnost Bosne i Hercegovine - SBB BiH) and is its party leader. In the election on October 3, 2010, he managed to secure second place in the election for the Bosniak member of the state presidency with just under 31 percent of the vote.

Publications

• Adem Demaçi. Deset tisuca dana robije ( Confession. One Thousand Days of Imprisonment ), Danas Verlag, Zagreb 1990
• Bosna ce opstati ( Bosnia will be preserved ), Danas Verlag, Zagreb 1991
• Goodbye, Bosnia , Danas Verlag, Zagreb 1991

Web links

• References in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Biography on the website of SBB BiH (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Erich Rathfelder : Intersection Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina ten years after Dayton , page 19, Verlag Hans Schiler, 2006, ISBN 3899301080 [1]
2. ↑ Erich Rathfelder: Hot Summer in Sarajevo , in: taz from August 26, 2003 [2]