A senior official of the Socialist Party of Serbia passed away at the age of 79. Throughout his life, he remained a faithful admirer and great friend of Slobodan Milosevic, whom he often visited in The Hague.
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His loyalty to Milosevic is also shown by the fact that, despite the fact that the SPS changed the rose on the logo with a star at the end of 2014, Mrkonjic still wore a badge with the old insignia. As he said, the change of the sign did not mean the change of ideology.
Mrkonjić made this statement in the office of Milošević’s secretary Mira Dragojević, who, after retiring, worked in the party administration, and in her free time arranged documents from The Hague. It was in that office that Milosevic’s huge picture and the rose badge were.
He is also known for his statement that Sloboan Milosevic is a “hero over heroes”.
– History will show that Milosevic was a hero, and it does not occur to me to distance myself from this attitude – said Milutin Mrkonjic in 2009 while he was the Minister of Infrastructure. He then added that Milosevic showed how he defends a part of his country and his people.
While Milosevic was in The Hague, Mrkonjic publicly protested the former president’s treatment in the detention unit.
– The attitude of the so-called International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague towards Slobodan Milosevic and other Serbian patriots is reflected in a drastic violation of their freedoms and rights prescribed by international conventions and other international acts on numerous grounds, and even through violations of the Tribunal’s own rules. .
According to him, no one tried to prevent the silent assassination of the former president of the Republic of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
By the way, Mrkonjic has been advocating for years for President Milosevic’s family to return to Serbia.
Biography of Milutin Mrkonjić
Milutin Mrkonjić was born in Belgrade on May 23, 1942, and graduated in 1971 from the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade.
After graduating from the faculty, he worked in the Bureau for Studies and Design of Railways, and from 1974 he was the head of the Design Department. In 1977, he got a job at the Center for Research and Design, and with his merger with the Traffic Institute, he became its director.
He has participated in numerous projects in Algeria, Venezuela, Iraq, Kuwait, China, Gabon, Libya.
He was the leader of the renewal of Serbia in front of the Government of Serbia after the NATO bombing in 1999.
He has also been the Vice President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia since May 8, 2007. After the President of the Assembly Tomislav Nikolić resigned, Mrkonjić took over the presidency of the Assembly sessions as the oldest of the Vice Presidents, until the election of the new President Oliver Dulić on May 23, 2007. The Government of the Republic of Serbia was sworn in on May 15, 2007.
In the elections for the President of Serbia, in January 2008, he was the SPS candidate and won about 6% of the votes.
In the Government that was formed after the elections in May 2012, Milutin Mrkonjić performed the function of the Minister of Transport until the reconstruction, which was completed on September 2, 2013. He was replaced at that position by his party colleague Aleksandar Antić.
Milutin Mrko Mrkonjić’s ex-wife is Dragana Daša Mrkonjić, who worked as a lawyer for years, and later as a judge. The two have been married for more than 30 years.
Since 2012, he has been in a happy relationship with the famous singer Ana Bekut.
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