Zoran Žižić

Zoran Žižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Жижић; 4 March 1951 – 4 January 2013) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000.

Žižić resigned from the position of Prime Minister in protest over the extradition of Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY in June 2001. He was part of the hard-line Serbian nationalist wing of the Socialist People's Party and was expelled in 2005 following disagreements with its moderate leader Predrag Bulatović.

Early life and education Zoran Žižić was born on 4 March 1951 in Titograd.

After Momir Bulatović's split with the DPS, Žižić followed him and was elected vice president of the newly formed Socialist People's Party of Montenegro (SNP) in 1998.

Starting in July 2001 when the leadership of the SNP under Predrag Bulatović supported Pešić, Žižić was in conflict with his party. This culminated in January 2005 with the founding of the Movement for the Joint European State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, which grouped together several Serbian nationalist parties and pro-union moderates. Žižić was voted chief of the organizational committee of the movement on 20 January, and president of the movement on 27 January 2005. The increasingly moderate SNP under Bulatović declined to join, trying to change its image into that of a democratic civic party. Žižić was expelled from the SNP in early April 2005.

Žižić was the president of the Democratic Party of Unity, a party he formed in July 2006. The party was a part of Andrija Mandić's Serb List and Democratic Front coalitions.

Personal life and death Žižić was married to Mira Žižić, with whom he had two children – daughter Sonja and son Vuk.