Velimir Vukićević (11 July 1871 – 27 November 1930) was a
Serbian Yugoslav politician. He served as
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 17 April 1927 until 28 July 1928. After the
parliamentary election on 11 September 1927 he was re-elected.
Velimir Vukićević was a middle school teacher by profession. Elected to
Serbian National Assembly. He was a minister in several of the governments of
Nikola Pašić but as one of the chief "Palace Radicals" his role was help
Alexander, the king, to clip Pašić's wings.
His term was marked by an exceptional lack of ethnic tension in Croatia but as the cause was the political alliance of the leading Croat politician
Stjepan Radić and the leading Croatian Serb politician
Svetozar Pribićević in a united opposition to the government, this was a very unwelcome development for the government. Vukićević put pressure on papers dependent on government subsidy to launch a violent campaign against the opposition.
[Atentat na Stjepana Radića Žvonomir Kulunžić pp261-5] Vukicevic resigned shortly after violence among members of Parliament in which three
Croatian members of Parliament
were killed.
References
1871 births
1930 deaths
People from Rekovac
People from the Principality of Serbia
People's Radical Party politicians
Prime ministers of Yugoslavia
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