Bogić Bogićević ( sr-cyr, Богић Богићевић; born 15 May 1953) is a Bosnian politician who served as the 5th Bosnian member of the Yugoslav Presidency from 1989 until its abolishment in 1992. Bogićević later served as a member of the national

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from 2000 to 2002. He was also the president of the

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from 1997 to 2001.

Early and personal life

Bogićević was born into an ethnic

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family in the Eastern Bosnian town of

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. He is married and 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

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and

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and to overthrow the new political leaderships of

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and of

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in his native

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(with

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and

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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 Slovenian government 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 and 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 president of the

. 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 mayor of Sarajevo by the four-party liberal alliance, colloquially called the '' Four'', which was set to govern the

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after the

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, and that also included the SDP BiH. However, on 24 March 2021, he decided to pull out of the candidacy because of conflicts in the alliance. Ultimately, with Bogićević pulling out, the SDP BiH nominated Benjamina Karić for the post on 5 April 2021, getting unanimously elected by members of the City Council three days later on 8 April.

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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