Filip Vujanović
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| Filip Vujanović Филип Вујановић |
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| Assumed office 22 May 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Milo Đukanović Željko Šturanović Milo Đukanović |
| Preceded by | Milo Đukanović |
| In office 25 November 2002 – 19 May 2003 Acting |
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| Prime Minister | Milo Đukanović |
| Preceded by | Milo Đukanović |
| Succeeded by | Rifat Rastoder Dragan Kujović |
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| In office 05 February 1998 – 05 November 2002 |
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| President | Radoje Kontić |
| Preceded by | Milo Đukanović |
| Succeeded by | Dragan Đurović (Acting) |
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| Born | 1 September 1954 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Political party | DPSCG |
Filip Vujanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Филип Вујановић) (born September 1, 1954 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a former Yugoslav politician, who, since 2003, has served as the President of Montenegro. He is the first President of Montenegro since it split from Serbia in June 2006. He claimed a landslide victory in the Montenegrin presidential election on April 6, 2008.
From 21 May 2008 he is serving his second presidential term.
[edit] Early life and career
Born and raised in Belgrade, Vujanović graduated from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Law. Between 1978 and 1981 he worked in one of the city's Municipal Courts, and later also as an assistant at the Belgrade District Court.
In 1981, aged 27, he moved to Titograd. Following a short stint as secretary at Titograd's District Court, he worked as a lawyer until entering politics in March 1993.
[edit] Career in politics
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Vujanović joined the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro in 1993 upon the invitation of then's President Momir Bulatović with the end of the Fall of Yugoslavia and constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia just of Montenegro and Serbia. He was a Minister of Justice in Đukanović's pro-Slobodan Milošević 1993-1996 government, and then a Minister of Interior from 1996 to 1998. During the 1997 DPS CG leadership conflict, though at first neutral, he sided with Milo after he won the presidential election and supported him for new President of DPS.
Milo then handpicked him and nominated him as the first Prime Minister of Montenegro from February 5, 1998 until January 8, 2003 with a more democratic perspective and aimed against Milošević. On November 5, 2002, he became speaker of the Montenegrin parliament, a position which, starting on November 25, 2002, made him acting president of Montenegro due to the resignation of Milo Đukanović from the presidency in order to prepare to replace Vujanović as prime minister. Vujanović ran in the December 2002 presidential elections and won a landslide victory, receiving 86% of the vote, but the election was ruled to be invalid because turnout was less than 50%. The elections were held again in February 2003, with Vujanović winning 81% of the vote, but again turnout was below 50%. The elections were held for a third time on May 11, 2003, with the minimum turnout rule abolished, and Vujanović won again with 63% of the vote. Vujanović resigned from his positions as speaker and acting president on May 19, but became president of Montenegro again three days later when his term began. Even though he was born and raised in Serbia, he was one of the most prominent Montenegrin secessionists. Filip represents the moderate-ideology DPS, unlike hard-core extreme under Milo Đukanović.
As president of Montenegro, Vujanović was a supporter of the Montenegro independence referendum, though Prime Minister Đukanović was much more high-profile in his campaign for it. Vujanović’s messages often focus on Montenegro’s and Serbia’s ability to have a peaceful separation and post-independence cooperation, and he is friends with Serbian president Boris Tadić. [1]
In April of 2007, President Vujanović declared he will protect the property of the main religious institution in Montenegro, the Serbian Orthodox Church during an attempt of the non-canonical Montenegrin Orthodox Church to forcibly seize its property.
He is married and has two daughters and a son. Unlike Đukanović, he refuses to have bodyguards, so he can be often seen walking the streets of Podgorica with his friends, but no security.
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| Preceded by Milo Đukanović |
Prime Minister of Montenegro 1998 – 2002 |
Succeeded by Dragan Đurović Acting |
| Preceded by Milo Đukanović |
President of Montenegro Acting 2002 – 2003 |
Succeeded by Rifat Rastoder Dragan Kujović Acting |
| Preceded by Rifat Rastoder Dragan Kujović Acting |
President of Montenegro 2003 – present |
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