Milan Pančevski

Milan Pančevski (born May 16, 1935 in Debar , Macedonia , † January 9, 2019 ) was a Yugoslav politician and the last chairman of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia (BdKJ).

Life

Pančevski, who came from Macedonia, studied at the University of Political Sciences in Belgrade after attending school and became a member of the BdKJ in 1957. After completing his studies, he first became head of the water authority in his hometown and in this also chairman of the Communist Youth Association. Later he was also president of the city committee of the Socialist Alliance of Working People (SSRNJ), the largest and most influential mass organization in Yugoslavia, and political secretary of the BdKJ city committee as well as a member of the executive committee of the Conference of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia .

He was also a member of the Control Commission of the Central Committee of the Federation of Communists of Macedonia and a member of the Federal Council, the Chamber of the Federal Assembly, which was composed of the delegates of the self-governing organizations and socio-political organizations.

Since the 1980s he was a member of the Presidium of the BdKJ. In addition, he was from May 5, 1984 to June 1986 secretary of the Central Committee (ZK) of the BdKJ of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and thus Macedonian party leader. Already in this function he supported the efforts of the Socialist Republic of Serbia to reassign the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo , which was mainly inhabited by Albanians and was created in 1974, to the area of ​​responsibility of Serbia.

On May 17, 1989 he was elected by the presidium of the BdKJ in tornus as the successor to Stipe Šuvar as president and thus as Yugoslav party leader. In the election he received 17 votes and was able to prevail clearly against his opponent and Macedonian compatriot Vasil Tupurkovski , who only got five votes. Šuvar in turn became a member of the Presidium of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , the collective head of state of the SFRY.

During his activity as President of the BdKJ, the 14th Congress of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia took place in Belgrade from January 20-22, 1990 . Eventually, due to the disputes between the constituent republics, Pančevski stopped the work of Congress and said he would continue the work, but it never happened. On January 22, 1990, after 45 years, the rule of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia came to an end.

Web links

• rulers.org

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• Fischer Weltalmanach , 1990, ISBN 3-596-19090-8 , column 638