Boško Perošević ( sr-Cyrl, Бошко Перошевић; 17 September 1956 – 13 May 2000) was a Serbian politician and former Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina. He was assassinated in 2000.

Biography

Perošević was born in

Odžaci Odžaci ( sr-cyrl, Оџаци, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the West Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town of Odžaci has a population of 7,556 people, while the population of the municipality of ...

and grew up in the near-by village of Ratkovo. He completed elementary and secondary school in Ratkovo and Odžaci, then Higher School of machine engineering and Economical Faculty in

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and received his master's degree at the Technological Faculty in

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

. He visited the

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as a student and in addition to Serbian, he spoke

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and English. In the specialized magazines he released several professional papers, while as a designer of tools and devices he patented several innovations. He published a study ''Kalupi za injekciono presovanje plastomera'' and together with three co-authors was published a book ''Promenama do uspešnog preduzeća''. In the one time he was worked as an engineer in the industry ''Ivo Lola Ribar'' from Odžaci, then was in 1992 appointed as a president of the municipal assembly of Odžaci. In this function he spent only one year, and in 1993 he became the Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina. From that foundation, Perošević was a member of

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...

Socialist Party of Serbia The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a populist political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006. SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance ...

and of the provincial committee of that party and between 1990 and 1995 he was a president of the committee.

Death

Perošević was killed on 13 May 2000, during the tour of Novi Sad Fair, after a shot in the head. His assassin was Milivoje Gutović from Perošević's home village of Ratkovo, the doorman of the Fair.

References

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