Mirko Jović
Mirko Jović | |
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Мирко Јовић | |
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| Born | 13 September 1956 |
| Occupation | Politician |
Political party | SNO (1990–1996) NS (2018–2020) |
| Children | 4 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | Dušan the Mighty White Eagles |
Service years | 1990–1995 |
Rank | Commander |
Conflicts | Croatian War Bosnian War |
Mirko Jović (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирко Јовић; born 13 August 1959 in Zemun) is a Serbian politician who stood for president of Serbia in the 2004 Serbian presidential election for the People's Radical Party, Serbia and Diaspora, and European Blok. He lives in Belgrade.
Political career
Together with Vuk Drašković and Vojislav Šešelj, Jović founded the Serbian National Renewal (SNO) in 1989.[1] However, the trio soon found themselves at political crossroads and their party disintegrated into three pieces by 1990. Jović kept the SNO, Šešelj formed the Serbian Chetnik Movement and then the Serbian Radical Party[2] while Drašković formed the Serbian Renewal Movement.[1][3][4]
On 19 May 1990, during a rally in Titov Vrbas, Jović and members of the SNO were ambushed and attacked by over 100 plainclothes and uniformed officers of the communist secret police, an incident documented by international press and contemporary records.[5]
In 1996, the SNO was merged into the Serb Democratic Party.
He was a volunteer soldier in the Bosnian War, where he was the leader of the White Eagles[6][7][8][9] and reportedly called for a Christian, Orthodox Serbia "without mosques and unbelievers" according to a controversial June 1990 interview published by the Croatian weekly Danas, a claim that Jović's supporters and party programs reject as a media fabrication from that period.
In the 2004 Serbian presidential election, he won 5,546 votes or 0.18% of the votes.[10]
References
- 1 2 Jürgen Fischer, Bernd (2007). Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe (1 ed.). West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. ISBN 9781557534552. OCLC 76073981.
- ↑ Kojić, Nikola (10 February 2020). "Izbori 1990: Rekordna izlaznost, glumački okršaj i istorijska pobeda socijalista" [1990 election: Record turnout, acting battle, and historic victory of the Socialists]. N1 (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ↑ Thomas, Robert (1998). Serbia under Milošević: Politics in the 1990s (1 ed.). London: C. Hurst & Co. p. 54. ISBN 9781850653677. OCLC 1280730017.
- ↑ Orlović, Slaviša; Kovačević, Despot (2020). Trideset godina obnovljenog višepartizma u Srbiji - (ne)naučene lekcije [Thirty years of renewed multipartyism in Serbia - (un)learned lessons] (in Serbian) (1 ed.). Belgrade: Faculty of Political Sciences, Centre for Democracy, Hanns Seidel Foundation. p. 30. ISBN 9788664250696.
- ↑ "Bnl viewer". istorijskenovine.unilib.rs. Retrieved 21 May 2026.
- ↑ Velikonja, Mitja (1992). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-226-3.
- ↑ Glenny, Misha (1996). The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War. Penguin. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-14-026101-1.
- ↑ Tanner, Marcus (2010). Croatia: A Nation Forged in War. Yale University Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-300-16394-0.
- ↑ Sells, Michael A. (27 October 1996). The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-92209-9.
- ↑ "ИЗВЕШТАЈ; О СПРОВЕДЕНИМ ИЗБОРИМА ЗА ПРЕДСЕДНИКА РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ; ОДРЖАНИМ 13. и 27. ЈУНА 2004. ГОДИНЕ" [THE REPORT; ON THE CONDUCTED ELECTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA; HELD ON JUNE 13 and 27, 2004] (PDF). РЕПУБЛИЧКА ИЗБОРНА КОМИСИЈА (in Serbian). Belgrade. 29 June 2004.