Gorica Gajević (Serbian Cyrillic: Горица Гајевић; 20 May 1958 – 16 December 2024) was a Serbian judge, lawyer, and politician.
Gorica Gajević | |
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| General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Serbia | |
| In office 2 March 1996 – October 2000 | |
| Preceded by | Milomir Minić |
| Succeeded by | Zoran Anđelković |
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| Born | 20 May 1958 Valjevo, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Died | 16 December 2024 (aged 66) |
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| Alma mater | University of Belgrade Faculty of Law |
Background
editGajević was born in Valjevo, People's Republic of Serbia on 20 May 1958.[1] Her father, Arsenije Gajević, was an agronomy engineer, and her mother, Elvira Švikart, was a Swiss housewife. When she was five, they moved to Raška, where she grew up and graduated from the secondary school "25 May" in 1977. In 1981, she graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. From 1982 to 1983 she was a trainee judge and then an expert associate from 1983 to 1984.
Gajević died on 16 December 2024, at the age of 66.[2]
Career
editIn 1984, she was appointed a judge in the Municipal Court of Raška where she served until 1989.[3][4]
She was an active member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. In 1989, she became the president of the Municipal Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in Raška, which became the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) in 1990. She held this position until 1992.[3][4]
From 1990 to 1993, she was an elected member of the Federal Chamber of Citizens (lower house). In 1995, after the resignation of Milorad Vučelić, she became the head of the SPS parliamentary team. At the third SPS congress, held on 2 March 1996, she succeeded Milomir Minić as General Secretary of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Shortly after, she was appointed vice-president of the Federal Chamber of the Republics (upper house).[5][3]
In October 2000, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, she was forced to resign from the General Secretary position.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Otvoreni Parlament: Gorica Gajević" (in Serbian (Latin script)). Retrieved 28 August 2019.
- ^ Umrla Gorica Gajević (in Serbian)
- ^ a b c Ko je ko u Srbiji '95 - Biografski leksikon (in Serbian (Latin script)). Beograd: Bibliofon. 1995.
- ^ a b "Changes in the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS): Comrade "Goran"". Transitions Online. 30 October 1995. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "The Woman and Her Deeds: Gorica Gajevic". Transitions Online. 21 November 1998. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ Vesna Peric Zimonjic (19 October 2000). "Socialist infighting over fate of former president". The Independent. Belgrade. Retrieved 30 August 2019.