Stojan Protić

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Stojan Protić

Stojan Protić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Стојан Протић ; born January 28, 1857 in Kruševac , Serbia , †  October 28, 1923 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav politician . He served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes between 1918 and 1919 and 1920.

Life

Protić studied history and philology at the University of Belgrade and worked for a short time in the government until he became a journalist and started working for the newspaper of the Serbian Radical Party , the Radical Party of Serbia . Although he was briefly imprisoned, in 1884 he got a job with another newspaper. He was elected to parliament in 1887 and was involved in drafting the Serbian constitution in 1888. Until 1897 he was regularly re-elected to parliament. After an attack on the former King of Serbia, Milan I , who ruled from 1868 to 1889, on July 7, 1899 by a member of the Radical Party, the supporters of the Radical Party were persecuted. Protić was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in a labor camp for a conspiracy. He was pardoned in 1900 and re-elected to parliament the following year.

politics

After 1903 he rose to the leadership level of the Radical Party, which he led together with Nikola Pašić and Lazar Pacu . Between 1903 and 1918 he was interior minister for four terms and finance minister for two terms. After Austria-Hungary had given Serbia an ultimatum in the July crisis in 1914 , the end of which sparked the First World War, Protić formulated Serbia's answer to this ultimatum.

After the war, a new state made up of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was proclaimed, and Protić became its prime minister. He recruited his cabinet from all parts of the new state. He resigned from this office on August 16, 1919, but served again as Prime Minister a few months later from February to May 1920. From 1920 he also held a ministerial post until 1921, when he advocated moderate decentralization. He broke with Nikola Pašić and left the Radical Party. He founded the Independent Radical Party , for which he ran in the next general election in 1923, but was not elected. He died in Serbia that same year.

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