Dragoslav Jovanović ( sr-cyrl, Драгослав Јовановић; born 22 February 1937) is a former politician in

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. He was a

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in the

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from 1993 to 1994, serving in the administration of

Nikola Šainović Nikola Šainović ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Шаиновић, born 7 December 1948) is a Serbian politician. A close associate of Slobodan Milošević, he held several important state functions of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia during the 1990s. He has ...

. During his time in office, Jovanović was a member of the

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 ...

(''Socijalistička partija Srbije'', SPS).

Early life

Jovanović is from

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Politician

The governing Socialist Party of Serbia won a plurality victory in the 1992 Serbian parliamentary election and formed a new administration in February 1993 with informal support from the far-right

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(''Srpska radikalna stranka'', SRS). Jovanović was appointed as one of Serbia's five deputy prime ministers. The SPS–SRS alliance broke down later in 1993, largely due to disagreements over support for

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forces in the

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. In October 1993, Jovanović was nominated to become governor of the

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; without the support of the Radicals, his nomination was defeated in the Yugoslavian parliament. This was one of a number of factors that led Serbian president

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 ...

to dissolve the Serbian assembly and call new elections for late 1993. In late 1993, Jovanović represented the Serbian government in meeting a delegation purporting to represent the Rothschild Group; the delegation was described as "examining the possibility of business cooperation in ugoslaviaafter the lifting of sanctions." The delegation was later discovered to be fraudulent, and the

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clarified that they had nothing to do with the matter. The SPS won an increased victory in the 1993 Serbian election, and a new ministry was formed in March 1994. Jovanović was not reappointed to the government. He was present at the founding convention of

Mirjana Marković Mirjana "Mira" Marković ( sr-cyr, Мирјана "Мира" Марковић, ; 10 July 1942 – 14 April 2019) was a Serbian politician, academic and the wife of Yugoslav and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. She was the leader of th ...

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(''Jugoslovenska Levica'', JUL) in 1994, although it is not clear if he joined the party. In the late 1990s, an individual named Dragoslav Jovanović served as the

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's ambassador to the

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.Yugoslav Daily Survey 96-06-10
hri.org, accessed 12 September 2022. This may have been the same person.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jovanovic, Dragoslav 1937 births Living people People from Požarevac Deputy prime ministers of Serbia Socialist Party of Serbia politicians