Momir Bulatović

Momir Bulatović (2006)

Momir Bulatović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Момир Булатовић ; born September 21, 1956 in Belgrade ; † June 30, 2019 in Kuči , Montenegro ) was a Yugoslav or Montenegrin politician . From 1990 to 1998 he was the first democratically elected president of Montenegro and 1998-2000 Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . He was also party chairman of the Union of Communists of Montenegro (1989-1990) and the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (1990-1997).

Bulatović was considered a close ally of the Serbian and later Yugoslav President Milošević .

Life

Bulatović studied economics at the University of Titograd , where he worked as an assistant in the subject of political economy. In 1974 he joined the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia .

After the resignation of the communist leadership after mass protests in January 1989, Momir Bulatović was elected party leader of the Union of Communists in Montenegro. Momir Bulatović was a close ally of the then Serbian President Slobodan Milošević and a proponent of a close alliance with Serbia . In the first multi-party elections in 1990, Momir Bulatović was elected President of Montenegro.

On July 11, 1997, Momir Bulatović was deposed as party leader by the main committee of the Democratic Party of Socialists , the successor party to the Montenegrin Communists. In contrast to his successor as party leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists, Milo Đukanović , Bulatović was loyal to the Serbian President Milošević. Before the presidential elections in 1997, Bulatović founded the People's Socialist Party (SNP), of which he became chairman. In the presidential elections on October 5 and 21, 1997, Bulatović was narrowly defeated by his rival Milo Đukanović.

His mentor Slobodan Milošević appointed him Prime Minister of the Yugoslav government on May 21, 1998. After the fall of Milošević, Bulatović lost this post in October 2000, and in 2001 Predrag Bulatović ousted him from the post of chairman of the People's Socialist Party. Momir Bulatović's supporters then founded their own party under the name of the People's Socialist Party (NSS), of which Momir Bulatović was the honorary chairman. Bulatović later withdrew from politics and devoted himself to his scientific work from then on. He has published several books on his view of events in Yugoslavia and Montenegro in the 1990s.

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Cf. u. a. Fischer World Almanac 2000. Frankfurt a. M. 1999, p. 877 f.

Web links

• Momir Bulatović in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• A. Schwarz: The proclamation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , on pelagon.de of April 24, 2014