Milorad Pupovac (; born 5 November 1955) is a Croatian politician and linguist. He is a member of the

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, the former president of the

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, and the president of the Independent Democratic Serb Party. He was also an

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at the

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Education

Pupovac was born in

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near

Benkovac Benkovac () is a town in the interior of Zadar County, Croatia. Geography Benkovac is located where the plain of Ravni Kotari and the karstic plateau of Bukovica meet, 20 km from the town of Biograd na Moru and 30 km from Zadar. Th ...

. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the

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. He holds a PhD(NSK)
in

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and is a professor at the University of Zagreb.

Political activity

He was one of the leading members of the

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, 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.Kapetanić, Sanja (8 May 2005). "Malo je dugovječnih" ''

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'', p. 24. He was the founder of the

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and its first president until 1995. At the beginning of 1995, he participated in the founding of the Independent Serb Party and of the

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. He was involved in the activity of that party and as their representative, he entered the

after elections held in 1995. He cast the decisive vote needed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to amend the Croatian Constitution on 12 December 1997. It was the first amending of the Constitution since its adoption on 22 December 1990, and the major amendments included the investiture of the

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into the Constitution's text, as well as the adoption of articles prohibiting the beginning of negotiations on

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's entrance into associations with any former Yugoslav republics and articles defining the national minorities of Croatia. After that, he founded the Independent Democratic Serb Party, led by Vojislav Stanimirović who was the mayor of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence. On the list of that party, he was a candidate for the

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several times. He succeeded Stanimirović as the president of the party in July 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pupovac, Milorad 1955 births People from Benkovac Serbs of Croatia Serb Democratic Party (Croatia) politicians Independent Democratic Serb Party politicians Living people Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament

Pupovac Pupovac ( sr-cyr, Пуповац) is a Serbian surname, derived from the noun ''pup (bud)''. The surname refers to the wealthy medieval clan spreading out into a few family branches in the territory of Zadar County. It may refer to: * Adrijana Pu ...