Ljiljana Ćuić

Ljiljana Ćuić (; born 2 August 1956) is a Serbian poet who was a presidential candidate in the 1990 Serbian general election. She was the first woman to run for president of Serbia. Ćuić later had a role in the 2022 Prizvan i pozvan comedy-documentary about the 1990 elections.

Early life Ljiljana Ćuić was born on 2 August 1956, in Priboj, People's Republic of Serbia, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. Her father, born in Broćanac, Kordun region of Yugoslavia, was a police officer. Ćuić attended a gymnasium in her hometown before moving to Belgrade to study pedagogy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. She said she instructed athlete Zoran Đurđević. By participating in the election, she became Serbia's first presidential candidate. Prior to the elections, she held Yugoslavist ideas, but during and after the 1990 elections, she embraced Serbian nationalist ideology. She declared her ideas "the most radical" (najradikalnije) among all candidates during the 1990 elections. The election was eventually won by Slobodan Milošević of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Srđa Vučo, the documentary's producer, stated that Ćuić was "the last one who entered the film because we realised that something was missing" (poslednja ušla u film jer smo shvatili da nešto fali), and he argued that she is a figure "who is not mentioned by anyone despite being a historically important person" (koju niko ne spominje a istorijski je bitna ličnost). The documentary also featured presidential candidates Dragan Jovanović of the Green Party and Milan Mladenović, as well as parliamentary candidate Savo Nešković of the Great Rock 'n' Roll Party and Serbian Renewal Movement member Milorad Jakšić Fanđo. The documentary received the "Audience Award for the Best European Documentary Film" at the Beldocs Festival.

In June 2024, Ćuić took part in a cultural-artistic programme in the Cultural Centre "Ćirilica", hosted by the Association of Serbian Writers of Slovenia and the European Academy of Serbian Sciences and Arts.

Personal life Ćuić, a pensioner, is a resident of Belgrade.