Miomir Mugoša (; born 23 July 1950) is a Montenegrin

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and

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. He has been the longest-serving

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, the capital of

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, from 2000 to 2014. He also served as the president of

FK Budućnost Podgorica Fudbalski Klub Budućnost Podgorica (Cyrillic: Будућност Подгорица, , ) is a Montenegro, Montenegrin professional association football, football club from Podgorica, Montenegro. It is competing in the Montenegrin First League. ...

, main soccer team in Podgorica.

Biography

Born in

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, Mugoša completed primary school and high school in

, and graduated from the

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's School of Medicine. He specialized in general surgery, with an emphasis on hepatobiliary surgery. Mugoša worked in the emergency service of the health center and at the Surgery Clinic of the Clinical Center in

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. He performed a duty of the Director of the Clinical Center in Montenegro in the period of 1996–97. Mayor Mugoša is the minister with the longest service in the Government of Montenegro - from 1990 to November 2000 he covered the position of the Minister of Health with the exception of 3 months during which he acted as the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare. Mugoša has been a member of the

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(DPS) since its founding. He was a member of the main board of DPS in Donja Gorica. He lives in

at Mareza in a family house, on the property of his ancestors. Mugoša was recently involved in scandal with abusive behavior regarding journalist of local newspaper ''

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'' Mihailo Jovović. According to some sources the journalist of "Vijesti" Jovovic was beaten and his redactor was also involved. On September 13, 2006, Mugoša was reelected to manage the municipality of Podgorica for a second term. In 2010, while DPS failed to win absolute majority of seats in Podgorica local assembly, he managed to obtain support from two opposition delegates, and secure a third term in the office. His mandate ended on June 24, 2014, and DPS chose not to appoint him as a candidate for a fourth term.

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