Milorad Pupovac
| Milorad Pupovac | |
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| President of Serb National Council | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 November 1955 Donje Ceranje, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Citizenship | Croatian (ethnicity:Serb) |
| Political party | Independent Democratic Serb Party |
| Alma mater | Ph.D.[1] of University of Zagreb |
| Profession | Linguist |
Milorad Pupovac (born 5 November 1955) is a Croatian politician and linguist of ethnic Serb descent. He is a member of Sabor and the president of the Serb National Council. He is also an observer at the European Parliament.[2]
Education
Pupovac was born in Donje Ceranje near Benkovac.[3] He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He holds a PhD[1] in linguistics and is a professor at the University of Zagreb.
Political activity
He was one of the leading members of the Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative, and after that he was the leader of the League of Social Democrats and head of the Social Democrat Alliance of Croatia - Social Democrat Alliance of Yugoslavia.[4] He was also a member of the Serb Democratic Party. He is the founder of the Serbian Democratic Forum. At the beginning of 1995 he participated in the founding of the Independent Serb Party, and with founding of the Action of Social Democrats of Croatia he was involved in the activity of that party and as their representative he entered the Sabor after elections held in 1995. After that he founded a new party, the Independent Democratic Serb Party, led by Vojislav Stanimirović. On the list of that party he was a candidate for a member of the Croatian Parliament several times. For a short while he was the president of the party, and today he is the vice-president.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kordić, Snježana (1990). "Filozofija jezika i pragmatika: recenzija doktorske disertacije Milorada Pupovaca" [Philosophy of language and pragmatics: Review of Milorad Pupovac’s dissertation]. Revija (in Croatian) 30 (7): 97–101. ISSN 0034-6888. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ↑ Alen Legović (10 April 2012). "Hrvatski promatrači u Bruxellesu: Bit će gužva, ali podijelit ćemo se" [Croatian observers in Brussels: It will get crowded, but we will divide responsibilities]. Vjesnik (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ↑ Hrvatski sabor - Milorad Pupovac (Croatian)
- ↑ Kapetanić, Sanja. Vjesnik (8 May 2005), p. 24. Malo je dugovječnih (Croatian)