Ružica Đinđić

Ružica Đinđić (2009)

Ružica Đinđić (also written Ružica Djindjić , Serbian - Cyrillic Ружица Ђинђић ; born February 25, 1960 in Valjevo as Ružica Pavlović ) is a Serbian politician and widow of the former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić . Due to the fact that on the one hand she is the wife of a murdered democratic bearer of hope and on the other hand only began to get involved in public after the death of her husband, she is referred to in many media as the Serbian Jackie Kennedy .

Life

Ružica Pavlović was born in 1960 in the western Serbian city of Valjevo. After finishing school, she studied at the Law Faculty of Novi Sad University . She then worked as a lawyer for the local writers' club, where she also met her future husband. After their wedding, the couple had two children, a daughter (* 1990) and a son (* 1993). Ružica Đinđić devoted herself only to the family and, despite the popularity of her husband, hardly appeared in public in large circles of the Serbian opposition. This did not change after Zoran Đinđić became Prime Minister of Serbia. Only after his death did she begin to get involved with orphans and became chairwoman of the foundation named after her husband, which works for disadvantaged children.

At the end of 2006, Serbian President Boris Tadić , who like Zoran Đinđić was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (DS) in 1989 , managed to convince them to run for the parliamentary elections on January 21, 2007. The party with a pro-European orientation, which was given only a small share of the vote in the polls before the election, promised itself a “draft horse” for its election campaign with the well-known Ružica Đinđić, who is particularly popular in circles of the urban bourgeoisie. In this context, she visited her husband's grave at the beginning of January 2007 together with the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder , who had come to Belgrade to give a lecture. Assumptions that she was just a "mascot" of the DS in the election campaign, she contradicted with the remark that she was also available as Prime Minister of Serbia.

literature

• Norbert Mappes-Niediek : The Serbian Jackie Kennedy . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 20, 2007

Web links

Commons : Ružica Đinđić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Martens: The Popular Widow . faz.net, January 2, 2007