Nikola Šećeroski ( sr-cyr, Никола Шећероски; 1934–2008) was a candidate for the Serbian Presidency, running in December 1990 as an
independent
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.
Early life
He was born in 1934 to a
Macedonian Serb family in
Radožda
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Geography
Radožda is situated on the western shore of the Ohrid Lake. It is south of the town Struga. It is from the Mace ...
, a village on the shore of
Lake Ohrid
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in the south-west of
Yugoslavia
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, in modern-day
North Macedonia
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.
Early activism
He was a social activist in the 1970s, and protested against some corrupted officials, and became a politician in the 1980s.
1990 election
A 1-hour long TV interview for ''
TV Beograd
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'' ahead of the
1990 elections, representing himself, made him famous in Yugoslavia, as he eccentrically spoke about various matters, most famously of the accusations against him by the municipality of
Čukarica
Čukarica ( sr-cyr, Чукарица, ) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.
Name
Like several other neighborhoods of Belgrade, Čukarica was named after kafana. At the present location of the Sugar Refinery, there was a kafana in the secon ...
that he made "brooms and brushes", that had haunted him for three years, stating that he had "nothing to do with brooms and brushes, I am a plastic worker", and that they needed to be punished. He made several more TV appearances, such as guesting popular
Minimaks.
After losing his last job, he turned to make plastic animals, which he received permission of to sell by the municipality, however, according to him, as soon as he neared the main station, he was arrested, written an offence ticket, imprisoned with a
straitjacket
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, then released, accused of selling brooms and brushes. He stated that this was due to his past outspoken criticism.
He finished 26th with 3,168 votes.
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1934 births
2008 deaths
Candidates for President of Serbia
People from Struga Municipality
Serbian people of Macedonian descent
Date of birth missing
Date of death missing
Serbs of North Macedonia
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