Filip Vujanović
Filip Vujanović [ ˈfilip vuˈjanɔvitɕ ] ( Montenegrin - Cyrillic Филип Вујановић ; born September 1, 1954 in Belgrade , Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia ) is a Montenegrin politician and was the President of the Republic of Montenegro from May 22, 2003 to May 20, 2018 .
education
Filip Vujanović graduated from Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1978 . From March 1978 to November 1980 he worked as a court secretary at the Titograd District Court . From January 1982 to March 1993 he worked as a lawyer.
Career
From 1993 onwards, the trained lawyer was initially Minister of Justice for two years and then Minister of the Interior of Montenegro for almost three years . As Milo Đukanović's successor , he held the post of Prime Minister from 1998 to 2002 . After an agreed exchange of the two state-highest offices Vujanović was on 25 November 2002, initially only on an interim basis, President . This was followed by two unsuccessful rounds of elections on December 22, 2002 and February 9, 2003, which failed because of the low turnout of less than 50% after large sections of the opposition called for a boycott of the elections. After a change in the electoral law with the abolition of the minimum voter turnout, Vujanović was elected the new president on May 11, 2003 with 64.2% of the votes and a turnout of 48.2%. The swearing-in took place on May 22nd. Just like his mentor Đukanović, he sought the separation of his country from the state union of Serbia and Montenegro , which took place on June 3, 2006.
On April 6, 2008, Vujanović ran again in the presidential election, the main challengers were Andrija Mandić and Nebojša Medojević . Vujanović achieved an absolute majority in the first ballot - Mandić and Medojević each achieved less than 20%. He was sworn in for the second time on May 21, 2008. For the third time, he was re-elected on April 7, 2013 and sworn in on May 21, 2013.
literature
- Filip Vujanović , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 52/2012 from December 25, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
Web links
- Website of the Montenegrin President (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vujanovic declares himself the election winner in Montenegro ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Momir Bulatović (1990-1998) | Milo Đukanović (1998–2002) | Filip Vujanović (2002–2018) | Milo Đukanović (since 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vujanović, Filip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вујановић, Филип |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Montenegrin politician, President of the Republic of Montenegro |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belgrade , People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |