Dušan Čkrebić (

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: Душан Чкребић; 7 August 1927 – 7 April 2022) was a Serbian politician who served as the

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, President of the Assembly and

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of the Socialist Republic of Serbia.

Biography

Čkrebić was born in

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ...

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on 7 August 1927, and he served in the

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of the

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during

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. In 1947, he began studying aeronautics in the

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, and he became the general manager of a soda factory in

Lukavac Lukavac ( sr-cyrl, Лукавац) is a city located in Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, the town has a population of 12,061 inhabitants, with 44,520 inha ...

in 1958. From 1974 to 1978, he served as Prime Minister of SR Serbia, and then as President of the Assembly from 1978 to 1982. In 1982, he became a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Following Milošević's purge of the

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and unconstitutional consolidation of power within the republic in 1987, the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia responded by holding

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s in 1988. Čkrebić, widely viewed as a Milošević ally, was the only sitting member to lose his vote of no confidence; he thereafter resigned from the Committee. Milošević himself was exempt from facing a similar vote because he held leadership over the League of Communists of Serbia. Čkrebić thus retired from politics in 1990. Čkrebić died on 7 April 2022.Preminuo Dušan Čkrebić, nekadašnji predsednik Predsedništva Srbije
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1927 births 2022 deaths Politicians from Niš Prime Ministers of Serbia Serbian communists League of Communists of Serbia politicians Recipients of the Order of St. Sava {{Serbia-politician-stub