Milutin Mrkonjić ( sr-cyr, Милутин Мркоњић; ; 23 May 1942 – 27 November 2021) was a Serbian politician. He co-founded the
Socialist Party of Serbia together with
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...
.
Education and career
Mrkonjić was born in 1942 in
Belgrade, then
occupied by
Nazi Germany
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. His father was a
Croatian Serb from the village of Bojna, near
Glina, in the region of
Banija.
Mrkonjić graduated from the
University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1968.
He was the first director of CIP - Institute of Transportation.
He was the head of the Reconstruction Agency after
NATO bombing of
FR Yugoslavia
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in 1999.
He ran for president in the
2008 election
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under slogans "Achievements speak for themselves" (
Serbian
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See also
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* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
: Дела говоре, ''Dela govore'') and "Our Comrade!" (Наш друг! ''Naš drug!''). Mrkonjić finished fourth with 5.97%.
On 8 May 2007, Mrkonjić became vice-president of the
National Assembly
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of Serbia, and on 7 July 2008 he became Minister for Infrastructure in the Serbian government. He became the Minister for Infrastructure and Energy in March 2011.
References
External links
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1942 births
2021 deaths
Politicians from Belgrade
Government ministers of Serbia
Socialist Party of Serbia politicians
University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering alumni
Candidates for President of Serbia
Serbian people of Croatian descent