Dušan Čkrebić (

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: Душан Чкребић; 7 August 1927 – 7 April 2022) was a Serbian politician who served as the

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, President of the Assembly and

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of the

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Biography

Čkrebić was born in

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...

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on 7 August 1927, and he served in the 1st Proletarian Brigade of the

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during

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. In 1947, he began studying aeronautics in the

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, and he became the general manager of a soda factory in

Lukavac Lukavac ( cyrl, Лукавац) is a city located in the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, the urban centre has a population of 12,061 inhabitants, with 44 ...

in 1958. From 1974 to 1978, he served as Prime Minister of SR Serbia, and then as President of the Assembly from 1978 to 1982. In 1982, he became a member of the Central Committee of the

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. Following Milošević's purge of the

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and unconstitutional consolidation of power within the republic in 1987, the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia responded by holding

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s in 1988. Čkrebić, widely viewed as a Milošević ally, was the only sitting member to lose his vote of no confidence; he thereafter resigned from the Committee. Milošević himself was exempt from facing a similar vote because he held leadership over the League of Communists of Serbia. Čkrebić thus retired from politics in 1990. Čkrebić died on 7 April 2022.Preminuo Dušan Čkrebić, nekadašnji predsednik Predsedništva Srbije
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