Nikola Kljusev Branko Crvenkovski Ljubčo Georgievski
Vice President
Ljubčo Georgievski (1991)[1][a]
Preceded by
Vladimir Mitkov (as President of the SR Macedonia)
Succeeded by
Boris Trajkovski
President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia
In office 15 May 1974 – 15 May 1978
Preceded by
Mijalko Todorović
Succeeded by
Dragoslav Marković
Personal details
Born
(1917-05-03)3 May 1917 Štip, Bulgarian-occupied Serbia
Died
1 January 2012(2012-01-01) (aged 94) Skopje, Macedonia
Nationality
Yugoslav/Macedonian
Political party
LCY
LCM
SDSM
Independent
[2]
Spouse
Nada Misheva
(m. 1943; died 2009)
Children
3, including Vladimir
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Kiro Gligorov (Macedonian: Киро Глигоров, pronounced[kiˈrɔɡliˈɡɔrɔf]ⓘ; 3 May 1917 – 1 January 2012) was a Macedonian politician who served as the first President of the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Štip, where he was also educated. He continued his education in Skopje and graduated in law in Belgrade. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, he worked as a lawyer and participated in the partisan resistance. By the end of the war, he was an organiser of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, the predecessor of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia as a federal Yugoslav state.
After the war, he served in various positions in Yugoslavia. For decades, he was a high-ranking official and an economist there. Prior to the breakup of Yugoslavia, Gligorov was an adviser for Ante Marković's market reform plan. Gligorov later played a pivotal role in Macedonia's peaceful secession from Yugoslavia and its international recognition. In 1995, he survived an assassination attempt, of which the perpetrators have not been found. For his role in its independence and political development, international researchers and the Macedonian public regard him as the father of the Macedonian state.[3][4][5]
^Robert Bideleux; Ian Jeffries (24 January 2007). The Balkans: A Post-Communist History. Routledge. p. 412. ISBN 9781134583287.
^Sabrina P. Ramet et al., Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States: Accomplishments, Setbacks, and Challenges since 1990, Cambridge University Press, 2017, ISBN 1107180740, p. 290. Archived 2023-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
^Dawisha, Karen; Parrott, Bruce, eds. (1997). Politics, Power and the Struggle for Democracy in South-East Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 246–247. ISBN 9780521597333.
^"Ден на жалост - Македонија ќе се прости од претседателот Глигоров". Deutsche Welle (in Macedonian). 3 January 2012. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
^P. H. Liotta (2001). Dismembering the State: The Death of Yugoslavia and why it Matters. Lexington Books. p. 207. ISBN 9780739102121. Indeed, of all the presidents of the former republics now become independent states, Gligorov could be more closely identified as the "father" of a nation than any other potential claimant.
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