Radoman Božović

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name=Radoman Božović
Радоман Божовић
nationality=Serbian
small| order=2nd Prime Minister of Serbia "(1991 - 1993)"
term_start=23 December, 1991
term_end=10 February, 1993
predecessor=Dragutin Zelenović
successor=Nikola Šainović
birth_date=birth date|1953|1|13
birth_place= Šipačino, Yugoslavia
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party=SPS
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Radoman Božović ( _sr. Радоман Божовић; born 13 January 1953 in Šipačno village near Nikšić, People's Republic of Montenegro, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) is a former Prime Minister of Serbia. Currently, he's allegedly one of the richest people living in Montenegro.

Radoman was born in a village on the banks of Piva River. He finished the first three elementary school grades in Nikšić, and after completing the elementary school he moved to Serbia. He finished secondary education in Vrbas, Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Socialist Republic of Serbia and graduated on the Faculty of Economics in Subotica in 1975, where he was given the job of an assistant. He earned a Masters Degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1981 on the subject "Social Ownership and Economic Relations of Socialist Selfmanagement" in the University of Belgrade under the guidances of prof Dr Ivan Maksimović and academic prof Dragutin Šoškić. In the thesis he supported strongly "the non-property ownership of social property", so he managed to circumvent the theoretical pitfalls of the so-called income based economy. and became a professional Economist. The assistant teacher on his studies was Momir Bulatović. He worked as a professor at the same Faculty. When he returned to Montenegro he was a professor at the Veljko Vlahović University in Titograd for some time.

In Subotica he entered politics by becoming the Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist League of Subotica. Radoman Bozovic joined the Socialist Party of Serbia, Slobodan Milošević predicted a great future for him. There he attained a number of offices. He was elected an MP in the Vojvodinian parliament on the 1990 local election in Vojvodina. He then became President of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in 1991. He subsequently became a delegat of Vojodina's delegation in the Parliament of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which he soon afterwards headed. Afterwards he entered the National Assembly of Serbia as an SPS Deputy, and became President of SPS' parliamentary group. He was elected into the Parliament's Board for Relations with the Serbs outside Serbia. For his personal experience in Vojvodina, he was elected into the SPS Executive Board for Vojvodina. Milosevic handed him supervisory control over Vojvodinian media. He finally found his true calling on 23 December 1991, when he was appointed President of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, after the previous cabinet was sacked for economic failure.

He was a hardcore bureaucrat, under whom more than half of Serbian state economy was under state ownership. After only one hundred days in office, the inflation reached a shocking sky-high 10,000%. His term was known for affairs with two of his government ministers ending up arrested.

He was known for his frequent fights with Vojislav Šešelj. His term expired on 10 February 1993 when the new minority SPS government was formed with support from SRS after the 20 December 1992 parliamentary election, a support which Radoman couldn't accept.

He then became an SPS Deputy in the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in which the parliamentary SPS-DPS CG majority elected him Speaker. The first thing he did was move to a representative cabinet in the parliament building, where he brought expensive luxurious furniture, he also took the most expensive Federal car, the Merzedes. More than a third of the Assembly had been trying to depose him, including the Serbian Radical Party, People's Party of Montenegro, Democratic Party and the Democratic Movement of Serbia coalition (Serbian Renewal Movement and Democratic Party of Serbia). He was very tough of words, instigating and allowing verbal aggressiveness against the opposition on sessions, e.g. against SPO MP Mihajlo Marković. He is responsible for ousting the famous President of Yugoslavia Dobrica Ćosić on 1 June 1993, bringing pro-Milosevic Zoran Lilić to his place.

After 1996 he abandoned SPS and retired to Montenegro, where he spends time skiing. He owns a million Euro Yacht.