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Radoje Kontić

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Radoje Kontić
Радоје Контић
2nd Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
In office
9 February 1993 – 19 May 1998
Preceded byMilan Panić
Succeeded byMomir Bulatović
12th President of the Executive Council of SR Montenegro
In office
29 March 1989 – 15 February 1991
Preceded byVuko Vukadinović
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born (1937-05-31) 31 May 1937 (age 87)
Nikšić, Yugoslavia
(now Montenegro)
Political partyDPS (1992–2006)
SKJ (1960s–1992)

Radoje Kontić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радоје Контић; born 31 May 1937) is a Montenegrin former politician and technologist who served as the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1993 to 1998.

Biography

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He was the last Chairman of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro's Executive Council from 1989 to 1991 - a post which he obtained by riding the wave of the anti-bureaucratic putsch in Montenegro during January 1989. He also served as the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia[1] from February 9, 1993 until May 19, 1998 when he lost a no-confidence vote. He was a member of the League of Communists of Montenegro and later a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro.

Like many others in the technocratically inclined second generation of Yugoslav communists, Kontić entered politics through directorial stints in state-owned companies. In Kontić's particular case, he worked his way up the corporate/political ladder in the Nikšić steelmill throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. Finally in 1978 he became a member of SR Montenegro's Executive Council, thus entering politics full-time.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Yugoslavia: Ever smaller?". The Economist. 21 May 1998. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  2. ^ "Montenegro". World Statesmen. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
Political offices
Preceded by President of the Executive Council of Montenegro
29 March 1989–15 February 1991
Succeeded by
post abolished/transformed
Milo Đukanović
(Prime Minister of Montenegro)
Preceded by Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
9 February 1993–19 May 1998
Succeeded by