Boris Tadić
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| Boris Tadić | |
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| Assumed office July 11, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Milan Milutinović |
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| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
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| Born | January 15, 1958 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (then SFR Yugoslavia) |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse | Tatjana Tadić |
Boris Tadić listen (Борис Тадић) (born 15 January 1958) is the President of Serbia. A psychologist by profession, he is a long-time member of the Democratic Party.
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[edit] Early life
Boris Tadić is the son of Ljubomir Tadić, a philosopher and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Nevenka Tadić, a psychologist. He was born in Sarajevo, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (then People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). His grandparents were killed during World War II, by Ustashas in the Independent State of Croatia because of their Serbian origin, and are considered victims of the Holocaust.
He attended elementary and high school in Belgrade and graduated in Clinical Psychology of Social Psychology at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He worked as a journalist, clinical psychologist, taught psychology at the First Belgrade Gymnasium and was a researcher of science projects on the Institute for Psychology. He worked actively in the democrat opposition, for which he was imprisoned more than on one occasion.
He founded and was the first Director of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Political Skills and for the past few years he is working on political enlightenment for the peoples of Serbia, Republika Srpska, Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria.
[edit] Political career
Tadić has been a member of the Democratic Party since its founding in 1990, performing several roles within the party including Secretary of the General Committee and Vice-President of the Executive Board of the Party. He was also an MP in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia during Milosevic's rule, as a member its Committee for Science and technology.
On the 27 February 2000 gathering of the Democratic Party, he was elected Vice-President of the Party.
In 2002 he became Minister of Telecommunications in the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; later he was Minister of Defence in the Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro.
In 2003 he was elected as a Representative to the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro and became Acting Head of the Group of Democratic Party Representatives. In 2004 he was elected as a Head-Representative of his party to the National Assembly of Serbia. Later in this year, he was elected President of Democratic Party, one year after the assassination of the former party president, Zoran Đinđić.
In the first round of the Serbian presidential election, 2004 he won 27.3% of the vote. In the second round, on 27 June 2004, he defeated Tomislav Nikolić with 53.24% of the vote.
[edit] Presidency
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He was officially sworn in as the president at a ceremony in Belgrade on 11 July 2004.
Tadić is the first Serbian head of state that has met officially with the Pope. This meeting occurred during the official trip of the President to Vatican on 28 September 2005, where he met Pope Benedict XVI.
Boris Tadić was the first president to visit Montenegro after the independence referendum in 2006. He had met with the Montenegrin President and Prime Minister and expressed will for mutual cooperation and friendship between the two independent countries.
He raised the flag of Serbia in front of the UN General Assembly building in New York City, after the Union of Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist.
One of the main promises Tadić made prior to the elections, was the opening of the National Office of the President (Narodna Kancelarija Predsednika) which would help out people in trouble. He fulfilled his promise, and the office proved to be a successful project as a very active institution which helped many people with their varied problems.
During the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in October 2006, Boris Tadić together with Ferenc Gyurcsány, the prime minister of Hungary, revealed a memorial plaque placed at the entrance of Serbian embassy, dedicated to Imre Nagy.
In opinion of many Serbs, president Tadic has abandoned the ideas of the previous leader of Democratic Party, dr. Zoran Djindjic by entering so called cohabitation with Kostunica's right wing Government.[citation needed] This could be due to the influence of his father Ljubomir Tadic who is a prominent personality among Serbian nationalist intelectual circles in SANU (Serbian Academy of Science and Arts), same circles to which Dobrica Cosic belongs.
[edit] Security issues
On 1 December 2004, Tadić’s presidential motorcade was involved in a traffic accident. Miroslav Cimpl, a Serbian employee of the US Embassy, refused to make way for the motorcade and crashed repeatedly into the vehicles in it, though the president’s car was not affected. The employee managed to flee, but after reporting the incident to his employer, the US Embassy, he was subsequently arrested.
This incident petrified the general public because it evoked memories of a failed attempt at assassinating Zoran Đinđić in February 2003, when a truck driven by Zemun clan member Dejan Bagzi Milenković crashed into Đinđić's motorcade on an open highway. Many at first believed this second incident to be an attempt to assassinate Tadić, but a subsequent police investigation found no evidence to support this claim.
Minister of Police Dragan Jočić said during a press conference that Cimpl got confused when he saw the flashing lights of the motorcade and did not know what to do. The police concluded that it was only a traffic accident and that there was no intention to harm the President. Cimpl stayed in jail for two weeks, before being released (see (Halifax), (B92)).
[edit] Personal life
Besides his native language, Tadić also speaks English and French. He is married and the father of two children.
[edit] External links
- Official Web Site of The President of Serbia
- People´s Office of the President
- Official Presidential Campaign Website
- Democratic Party Website
| Preceded by Predrag Marković Acting President of Serbia |
President of Serbia 2004–present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Leaders of the Democratic Party (Serbia) | ||
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| Davidović | Grol | Mićunović | Đinđić | Tadić | ||
| Presidents of Serbia | |
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| Slobodan Milošević | Milan Milutinović | Boris Tadić |
