The

Government of Serbia The Government of Serbia ( sr, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Government ( sr, � ...

under

Zoran Đinđić Zoran Đinđić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Ђинђић, ; 1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the mayor of Belgrade in 1997. Đinđić ...

as the

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was formed on 25 January 2001. It is the first post-Milošević government formed after Serbian parliamentary elections held on 23 December 2000, when the

Democratic Opposition of Serbia The Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( sr, Демократска oпозиција Cрбије, Demokratska opozicija Srbije), commonly referred to as DOS, was a wide alliance of political parties in Serbia, intent on ousting the ruling Socialist ...

coalition (DOS) won 64.09% of the popular vote translating into 176 seats in the Serbian National Assembly (out of 250 seats).

, the leader of the

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, was designated as Prime Minister and given the task of forming Serbia's first freely elected post-communist and post-Milošević Government. The Government was sworn in on 25 January 2001 and its term officially ended on March 3, 2004, when the new government under PM

Vojislav Koštunica Vojislav Koštunica ( sr-cyrl, Војислав Коштуница, ; born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the prime minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008. ...

was unveiled following the

2003 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 28 December 2003 to elect members of the National Assembly. Serbia had been in a state of political crisis since the overthrow of the post-communist ruler, Slobodan Milošević, in 2001. The reforme ...

held in late December. When PM Zoran Đinđić was

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on March 12, 2003, Nebojša Čović (one of the five deputy PMs at the time) became the acting PM for four days until Zoran Živković got named as the new Prime Minister on March 16, 2003. After Đinđić's assassination, the government also went through a slight reconfiguration as

Čedomir Jovanović Čedomir "Čeda" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Чедомир "Чеда" Јовановић, ; born 13 April 1971) is a Serbian politician and businessman. During the presidency of Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia, Jovanović became one of the student l ...

, up to that point DOS' parliamentary club chief, became deputy PM.

Composition

Deputy Ministers

The Deputy Ministers in the Serbian Government appointed in February 2001 were:Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia *

Mirko Cvetković Mirko Cvetković ( sr-Cyr, Мирко Цветковић, ; born 16 August 1950) is a Serbian economist and former politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2008 to 2012 and as finance minister from 2007 to 2008, and again from ...

, Deputy Minister of Economy and Privatisation (appointed

Prime Minister of Serbia The prime minister of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, премијерка Србије, premijerka Srbije; masculine: премијер/premijer), officially the president of the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, председница Влад� ...

in July 2008) *

Dejan Popović Dejan Popović (born 1950 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professor of law and the former rector of Belgrade University between 2004 and 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Ambassador of Serbia to the United Kingdom. Popović graduated from the University of ...

, Deputy Minister of Finance *

Dragan Marković Dragan Marković ( sr-cyr, Драган Марковић; born 2 May 1960), commonly known as Palma ("palm tree"), is a Serbian businessman, politician and entrepreneur. He currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia and is a ...

, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management *

Đurđe Ninković Djurdje Ninković (born 1942) is a lawyer, legal commentator and political activist who was a founding member of the Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia who joined the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party in December 1989. From late December th ...

, Deputy Minister of Justice * Dimitrije Vukčević, Deputy Minister of Energy and Mining * Zoran Radivojević, Deputy Minister of Transport and Telecommunications * Radojko Obradović, Deputy Minister of Construction and Urban Planning * Ferenc Mokanj, Deputy Minister of Trade, Tourism and Services * Dobrosav Milovanović, Deputy Minister of International Economic Relations * Dušan Protić, Deputy Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government * Nebojša Miletić, Deputy Minister of Labour and Employment * Liljana Lučić, Deputy Minister for Social Affairs * Radojica Pešić, Deputy Minister for Science, Technology and Development * Vigor Majić, Deputy Minister of Education and Sport * Uroš Jovanović, Deputy Minister of Health and Environmental Protection, 2001-02 * Dragan Celiković, Deputy Minister of Health * Živojin Stjepić, Deputy Minister of Religion (The post of Deputy Minister has since 2004 been abolished and a new post of State Secretary (''državni sekretar'') has been instituted (of which there are several in each Ministry).

References

1. ^ Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia No.14, 23 February 2001.

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Composition

Deputy Ministers

See also

References

External links