BELGRADE, March 18 (Hina) - The Serbian parliament on Tuesday elected Zoran Zivkovic, the first vice president of the slain premier Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party (DS) as Serbia's new premier, while Cedomir Jovanovic, the whip of
the DOS ruling coalition's bench in the assembly, was elected a vice premier.
BELGRADE, March 18 (Hina) - The Serbian parliament on Tuesday
elected Zoran Zivkovic, the first vice president of the slain
premier Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party (DS) as Serbia's new
premier, while Cedomir Jovanovic, the whip of the DOS ruling
coalition's bench in the assembly, was elected a vice premier. #L#
The new premier Zoran Zivkovic (42) was born in Nis. He was a long-
standing deputy of DS leader Djindjic, who was assassinated last
Wednesday. From 1993 to 1997 Zivkovic was an MP in the Serbian
parliament, and in 1996, after the then Serbian president Slobodan
Milosevic recognised the results of local elections, he became the
mayor of his hometown.
After the ouster of Milosevic and his regime, Zivkovic became the
interior minister of the then Yugoslav federation, and a deputy to
the Council of Citizens of the federal assembly.
Cedomir Jovanovic (32), born in Belgrade, is a playwright. He was
one of the initiators and leaders of students' protests in 1996 and
1997 aimed at forcing Milosevic to recognise the results of the
local ballot.
The Students Political Club, which Jovanovic set up in early 1998,
joined Djindjic's DS and Jovanovic became a member of the party's
leadership. After the toppling of the Milosevic regime on 6 October
2000, he held the office of a DS vice-president.
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