Dušan Mihajlović (politician)

Dusan Mihajlovic ( Serbian Cyrillic Душан Михајловић ) ( born 1948 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian lawyer and politician.

Life

Originally in opposition to Serbian President Slobodan Milošević founded Mihajlovic 1990, the conservative New Democracy Party (Serbian Нова Демократија / Nova Demokratija, ND), who had their stronghold in Valjevo and for which he sat from 1993 to 1999 in the Serbian Parliament. As Milošević coalition of communists and nationalists lost its majority in parliament, Mihajlovic joined in 1994 by the Opposition into Government, his small party acted as tipping the scales. As a coalition partner in 1994 before he struck, for example, a style similar to earlier conceptions of Dobrica Cosic plan for the partition of Kosovo. But in 1998, no longer needed Milošević coalition with the ND and allied instead with the Radical Party.

In the Yugoslav presidential elections of 2000, Mihajlovic joined the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, which succeeded the fall of Milošević. In subsequent governments, he was under Nebojsa Covic and Zoran Djindjic Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia ( until 2004).

As interior minister, the arrest and extradition of Milošević fell just like the assassination of Djindjic in Mihajlovićs tenure.

Despite their conservative nature Mihajlovic was 2003, the New Democracy in Liberal Serbia (Serbian Либерали Србије / liberalization Srbije ) rename to highlight a departure of the party from its past in the Milošević era. In 2005 he withdrew from the party chairmanship. Since 2007, his party is not represented in Parliament.