Bogić Bogićević


Bogić Bogićević is a Bosnian politician. He was a politician of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a politician of the leftist political orientation, known for being the 6th Bosnian member of the Yugoslav Presidency from 1989 until its abolishment in 1992.
Bogićević was born into a Serb family in the Eastern Bosnian town of Ugljevik.

Engagements

Pre-war engagements

Bogićević was the first office-holder in Second Yugoslavia at the federal level to be democratically elected, as the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991.
He is famous for having defied fellow Serb colleagues from Serbia on a vote in the presidency which would have imposed the martial law in Yugoslavia and allow the Yugoslav army to remove recently elected secessionist governments, particularly in Croatia and Slovenia, as well as in Macedonia and his native Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bogićević rejected the proposal, and thus by one vote, the Yugoslav collective presidency voted against enacting the martial law.

Wartime engagements

The wartime period from 1992 to 1995, Bogićević spent in Sarajevo under the siege. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and vice president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Post-war engagements

Bogićević was the vice-president of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and chairman of the Olympic Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Awards and medals

Today, Bogićević lives and works in Sarajevo.