Bogić Bogićević ( sr-cyr, Богић Богићевић; born 15 May 1953) is a Bosnian politician. He served as the 5th Bosnian member of the

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from 1989 until its abolishment in 1992. Bogićević was also a member of the national

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and was the 2nd President of the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well.

Early and personal life

Bogićević was born into an ethnic

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family in the Eastern Bosnian town of

Ugljevik Ugljevik ( sr-cyrl, Угљевик) is a town and municipality located in Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 15,710 inhabitants, while the town of Ugljevik has a population of 4,155 inhabitan ...

. He is married and is a father of two children.

Presidency of Yugoslavia (1989–1992)

Bogićević was elected member of the

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by a referendum of the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 25 June 1989, among five candidates, thus becoming the first democratically elected member of the collective Yugoslav Presidency. In addition, he served as President of Yugoslavia's Federal Council for the Protection of the Constitutional Order. On 12 March 1991, Bogićević famously defied fellow Presidency members from Serbia on a vote which would have imposed

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. Formally, the military leadership proposed raising combat readiness, but the real goal was to introduce military rule in Slovenia and Croatia and to overthrow the new political leaderships of

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in Macedonia and of

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in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina.Nenad Peji�
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avaza učitano 7 April 2014 The pro- Milošević faction, which already controlled the Presidency votes from Serbia (with Vojvodina and Kosovo as separate seats in the Presidency), and Montenegro, counted on his vote as a fellow Serb. Bogićević rejected the proposal, and thus by one vote, the Yugoslav Presidency rejected the imposition of martial law. He reportedly commented on his vote, which historians deemed "fateful": "I am a Serb, but not by profession".Al Jazeera Balkans
November 2020 His decision was decried by the Serb Democratic Party, who claimed that Bogićević did not represent the Serbs, and he was deprived of his presidential salary as a punishment. He later started working for the

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. Together with Macedonian Presidency member

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, in July 1991, Bogićević mediated negotiations between the

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and the

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(JNA) Supreme Command on the release of recruits and the unblocking of barracks during the

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between the

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and the JNA. Bogićević spent the wartime period between 1992 to 1995 in Sarajevo under siege.

Post-war career

In post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bogićević was a member of the national

of the

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, and vice president of the

(SDP BiH). Bogićević was also

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of the

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. A poll conducted by the '' Dani'' newspaper in 1998 to survey the population of

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and West

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found that Bogićević was among the most popular politicians in West Mostar and Sarajevo. In 2003, he founded the consulting company ''Fides'', dealing with market research. On 20 November 2020, Bogićević announced he would accept the appointment as

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by the four-party liberal coalition set to govern the

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after the

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, which includes the SDP BiH. However, on 24 March 2021, he decided to pull out of the candidacy because of conflicts in the coalition. Ultimately, with Bogićević pulling out, the SDP BiH nominated

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for the post on 5 April 2021, getting unanimously elected by members of the City Council three days later on 8 April, and became the 39th mayor of the city, replacing

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, becoming only the second female in that office (the first being Semiha Borovac from 2005 to 2009).

Honours

Awards

*In 1999, Bogićević received the Plaque of Humanism, an award given by the Permanent Committee of the

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. *In 2006, the International Centre for Peace

awarded him with the traditional award "Freedom".

Orders

Honorary citizenship

References

External links

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