About Dragiša Pešić
Lived 1954 – 2016 (aged 62). Dragiša Pešić was a Montenegrin and Yugoslav politician.
Dragiša Pešić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиша Пешић; 8 August 1954 – 8 September 2016) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He was the penultimate Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Biography Pešić was born in Danilovgrad on 8 August 1954. He studied economics at the University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Economics, where he graduated in 1978.
He was President of the executive committee of Podgorica Municipality, a member of the Chamber of Citizens in the Yugoslav Federal Assembly. In 1998, he became Finance Minister of Yugoslavia, in the governments of Prime Ministers Momir Bulatović and Zoran Žižić.
Pešić became a member of the Senate of the State Audit Institution (DRI) of Montenegro in December 2007.
He died on 8 September 2016 at the age of 62. He was buried on 10 September in the village of Frutak near Danilovgrad.
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Montenegrin politician (1954–2016)
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Dragiša Pešić was born on 8 August 1954 in Danilovgrad.
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Dragiša Pešić died on 8 September 2016 in Podgorica.
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Dragiša Pešić was Montenegrin and Yugoslav.
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