Radoman Božović

Politician

1953 –

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Who is Radoman Božović?

Radoman Božović is a former Prime Minister of Serbia.

Božović was born in a village on the banks of Piva River. He completed grades 1-3 of elementary school in Nikšić. After elementary school he moved to Serbia, and completed secondary education in Vrbas. In 1975, he graduated from the University of Subotica, School of Economics, where he got a job as an assistant. He obtained his Masters degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of Belgrade. His thesis, titled "Social Ownership and Economic Relations of Socialist Self-management" and supervised by Ivan Maksimović and Dragutin Šoškić, strongly supports "non-property ownership of social property", circumventing theoretical pitfalls of income-based economy. He returned to Montenegro for some time, working as a professor at the Veljko Vlahović University in Titograd.

In Subotica he entered politics by becoming the Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist League of Subotica. When he joined the Socialist Party of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević predicted a great future for him. In subsequent years he held a number of public offices. He was elected into the Parliament of Vojvodina in 1990. In 1991 he became the President of the Executive Council of Vojvodina. Then, he became one of Vojodina's representatives in, and soon afterwards the President of, the Parliament of Yugoslavia. As an SPS MP in the Serbian Parliament, the leader of the party's parliamentary group, and a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Relations with Serbs outside Serbia. Because of his experience in Vojvodina, he was elected into the SPS Executive Committee for Vojvodina, where he had supervisory control over the media in the province.

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Born
Jan 13, 1953
Socialist Republic of Montenegro
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on July 23, 2013

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