Milorad Pupovac

Milorad Pupovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Пуповац, born 5 November 1955) is a Croatian politician and linguist of Serb ethnicity. He is a member of Sabor, former president of the Serb National Council, and president of the Independent Democratic Serb Party. He was also an observer at the European Parliament.[4]

Milorad Pupovac
Милорад Пуповац
Member of the Croatian Parliament for 11th electoral district
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 December 2003
Prime Minister	Ivo Sanader Jadranka Kosor Zoran Milanović Tihomir Orešković Andrej Plenković
In office 28 October 1995 – 2 February 2000
Prime Minister	Zlatko Mateša
2nd President of the Independent Democratic Serb Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2017[1]
Preceded by	Vojislav Stanimirović[1]
Personal details
Born	(1955-11-05) 5 November 1955 Benkovac, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Citizenship	Croatian
Nationality	Serbian
Political party	Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (1988) Social Democratic Union of Croatia / Yugoslavia (1990) Social Democratic Action of Croatia (1994–1996) Independent Democratic Serb Party (1997–present)
Alma mater	PhD[2] of University of Zagreb (1988)[3]
Profession	Linguist

Education

Pupovac was born in Donje Ceranje near Benkovac.[5] He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He holds a PhD[2] in linguistics and is a professor at the University of Zagreb.

Political activity

He was one of the leading members of the Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative, and after that he was the leader of the League of Social Democrats and head of the Social Democrat Alliance of Croatia – Social Democrat Alliance of Yugoslavia.[6] He was a member of the Serb Democratic Party and the founder of the Serbian Democratic Forum.

At the beginning of 1995, he participated in the founding of the Independent Serb Party and of the Action of Social Democrats of Croatia. He was involved in the activity of that party and as their representative, he entered the Sabor after elections held in 1995. He cast the decisive vote needed to achieve the 2/3 majority necessary to amend the Croatian Constitution on 12 December 1997. It was the first amending of the Constitution since its adoption on 22 December 1990, and the major amendments included the investiture of the Croatian War of Independence into the Constitution's text, as well as the adoption of articles prohibiting the beginning of negotiations on Croatia's entrance into associations with any former Yugoslav republics and articles defining the national minorities of Croatia. After that, he founded the Independent Democratic Serb Party, led by Vojislav Stanimirović. On the list of that party, he was a candidate for the Croatian Parliament several times. He succeeded Stanimirović as the president of the party in July 2017.

Sources

1. "Milorad Pupovac izabran za predsjednika SDSS-a". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). HINA. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
2. Kordić, Snježana (1990). "Filozofija jezika i pragmatika (recenzija doktorske disertacije Milorada Pupovaca)" [Philosophy of language and pragmatics (Review of Milorad Pupovac's dissertation)] (PDF). Revija (in Croatian). Osijek. 30 (7): 97–101. ISSN 0034-6888. SSRN 3451166. CROSBI 446878. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2019. (NSK).
3. OCLC 440989175
4. Legović, Alen (10 April 2012). "Hrvatski promatrači u Bruxellesu: Bit će gužva, ali podijelit ćemo se" [Croatian observers in Brussels: It will get crowded, but we will divide responsibilities]. Vjesnik (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
5. Hrvatski sabor – Milorad Pupovac Archived 16 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
6. Kapetanić, Sanja (8 May 2005). "Malo je dugovječnih" Vjesnik, p. 24. (in Croatian)