Milorad Pupovac
Милорад Пуповац
Pupovac in 2010
Member of the Croatian Parliament
for 11th electoral district
Assumed office
22 October 2003
Prime MinisterIvica Račan
Ivo Sanader
Jadranka Kosor
Zoran Milanović
Tihomir Orešković
Andrej Plenković
In office
28 October 1995 – 2 February 2000
Prime MinisterZlatko Mateša
2nd President of the Independent Democratic Serb Party
Assumed office
2 July 2017[1]
Preceded byVojislav Stanimirović[1]
Personal details
Born (1955-11-05) 5 November 1955 (age 68)
Benkovac, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
CitizenshipCroatian
NationalitySerbian
Political partyAssociation 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)
SpouseSlavica Lukić
Children2
Parents
  • Obrad Pupovac
  • Manda Pupovac
RelativesVesna Pisarović (daughter-in-law)
Alma materPhD[2] of University of Zagreb (1988)[3]
ProfessionLinguist

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

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. His notable books include 1986 Lingvistika i ideologija (Linguistics and Ideology), 1990 Jezik i djelovanje (Language and Action) and 1990 Politička komunikacija (Politics and Communication).[6]

Political activity

Milorad Pupovac at the 2023 Croatian national minorities councils and representatives elections, Zagreb
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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.[7] He was the founder of the Serb Democratic Forum and its first president until 1995.[8]

At the beginning of 1995, he participated in the founding of the Independent Serb Party and of the Action of Social Democrats of Croatia.[8] He was involved in the activity of that party and as their representative, he entered the Sabor after elections held in 1995.[8] He cast the decisive vote needed to achieve the two-thirds 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 who was the mayor of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence. 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.

References

  1. ^ a b "Milorad Pupovac izabran za predsjednika SDSS-a". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). HINA. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b 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. S2CID 172015007. SSRN 3451166. CROSBI 446878. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 September 2013. 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. ^ n.a. (2022). "O autorima" [Authors]. Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics. Serb National Council & Archive of Serbs in Croatia. 5 (2): 248–249.
  7. ^ Kapetanić, Sanja (8 May 2005). "Malo je dugovječnih" Vjesnik, p. 24. (in Croatian)
  8. ^ a b c Ninoslav Kopač (2012). Svjedok histerije. Zagreb: Serb Democratic Forum. p. 108. ISBN 978-953-57313-2-0.
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