Dragoljub Mićunović,
PhD ( ) (born June 14, 1930 in Merdare village
near Kuršumlija
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
) is a prominent Serbian
politician
and philosopher.
Early life
Mićunović's childhood was spent in Skopje
(then known
as Skoplje) where his father worked as a civil
servant. Following the invasion of Kingdom of
Yugoslavia by the Axis forces and the Bulgarian occupation of
the southern parts of the country (where he was living), his family
escaped to an area of present-day Serbia (although
still an Axis entity). After the WW II,
Mićunović spent two years in the Goli Otok
concentration camp. After his release, he
completed his education, and in 1960 he became assistant on the
Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
. He
was part of the
Marxist humanist
Praxis School, and in 1975 he was
expelled from the faculty, together with seven other
colleagues.
Politics
Mićunović was one of the members of
the Founding
Committee of the Democratic Party in December 1989 who began
the process of re-establishing the
Democratic Party (DS). He was
elected the first President of the re-established
Democratic Party at the founding
party conference on February 3, 1990.
He remained the party's president until 1994 when he was squeezed
out from the top spot by
Zoran Đinđić. Mićunović resigned
and with a group of prominent intellectuals, founded the Fond
Center for Democracy, a non-governmental organization for the
development of civil society and the non-governmental sector, civil
education and preparation of political and social reforms.
In 1996, Dragoljub Mićunović founded a new political party,
Democratic Centre, of
which he was elected president.
He has been an MP in the State and Federal legislatures for more
than 10 years. At the first multiparty elections in Serbia in 1990,
he was elected a Member of
Parliament of Serbia on behalf of the
Democratic Party. As a Member of Parliament on the state level, he
was elected a delegate to the Chamber of the Republics (upper
chamber) of the
Federal
Parliament of Yugoslavia the period 1991-1992. At the Federal
elections in 1992, Mićunović was elected a Member of the Federal
Parliament as a representative of the Democratic Party. As a member
of the opposition coalition “Zajedno”, he was re-elected a Member
of Federal Parliament in the Chamber of Citizens (lower chamber) in
1996.
At the federal elections in 2000, as one of the leaders of the
Democratic Opposition of
Serbia (DOS) coalition, Mićunović was again elected a Member of
Parliament in the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly.
After the victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia in October
2000, he was elected President of the Chamber of Citizens of the
Federal Assembly on November 3, 2000. When the State Union of
Serbia and Montenegro was
established, in March 2003, Dragoljub Mićunović was elected
President of the
Parliament of Serbia and
Montenegro on March 3 that year. He held this position to March
3, 2004.
Dragoljub Mićunović is the winner of the first award for tolerance
awarded by the Ministry for Human Rights,
OSCE
and
B92 TV and radio station.
For his contribution
to the admission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
to the Council of
Europe he was presented an award by the European Movement in
Serbia. In 2001 he was awarded by the Slovakian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs for "active
contribution to the work of the Community for democratic change in
Yugoslavia which assembled representatives of different political
parties, civil society and international
organizations".
Dragoljub Mićunović's Democratic Centre party merged into the
Democratic Party in 2004 and he was one of the leading candidates
on the Democratic Party list in the
Serbian Parliamentary
elections held on January 21, 2007.
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