Zoran Živković (politician)

Zoran Zivkovic (Cyrillic Зоран Живковић; born December 22, 1960 in Niš ) is a Serbian politician of the Democratic Party (DS) and was from 2003 to 2004 Prime Minister of the country.

Life

Zivkovic grew up in southern Serbia Niš where he got his degree and then studied at the University of Belgrade economics. Today he lives with his wife and two children Biserka Milena and Marko in Niš.

Policy

Zoran Zivkovic occurred in 1992 in the Democratic Party and came for them in the Serbian parliament. After the local elections of 1996, whose results were initially not recognized by the government of Milošević, he led the protests in Niš and, after their success ultimately - as Djindjic in Belgrade - the first democratically elected mayor of his city. After the fall of Milošević in 2000 Zivkovic Interior Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

On March 18, 2003 - six days after the assassination of his predecessor Zoran Djindjic - Zivkovic was elected by the Serbian Parliament as Prime Minister. He announced to follow the course of his predecessor on. However, before the parliamentary elections less than a year later, he lost to the Congress of the DS election to party chairman against Boris Tadić, who subsequently also became presidential candidate and won the election in June 2004. Zivkovic withdrew from the everyday political life and has largely back in the DS today hold any more posts.

Since 2013 he is president of the Nova Stranka, which has been founded in April 2013.