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President
  
Vojislav Kostunica

Religion
  
Serbian Orthodox

Preceded by
  
Zoran Zizic

Name
  
Dragisa Pesic

Succeeded by
  
Position abolished

Role
  
Politician

Nationality
  
Montenegrin


Born
  
8 August 1954 (age 69) Danilovgrad, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia (
1954-08-08
)

Political party
  
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, Socialist People\'s Party of Montenegro

Dragiša Pešić (Serbian: Драгиша Пешић; 8 August 1954 – 8 September 2016) was a Montenegrin politician. He was the last Prime Minister of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before it was officially transformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003.

Biography

Pešić was born in Danilovgrad, then part of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He studied economic sciences at University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Economics.

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In 1998, he became a Minister of Finance in Belgrade, when Socialist People's Party (SNP) leader at that time Momir Bulatović, a competitor of Milo Đukanović, became Yugoslav head of the government. After the fall of Slobodan Milošević, Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) needed the SNP on the Yugoslav federal level to form a majority, because Đukanović had boycotted the 2000 Yugoslav election and openly called for Montenegrin independence from FR Yugoslavia.

He died on 8 September 2016 at the age of 62.

References

Dragiša Pešić Wikipedia