Rasim Ljajić

Rasim Ljajić
Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
Assumed office
27 July 2012
Prime Minister Ivica Dačić
Aleksandar Vučić
Ivica Dačić (Acting)
Ana Brnabić
Preceded by Verica Kalanović
Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications
Assumed office
27 July 2012
Prime Minister Ivica Dačić
Aleksandar Vučić
Ivica Dačić (Acting)
Ana Brnabić
Preceded by Dušan Petrović (Trade)
Milutin Mrkonjić (Telecommunications)
Minister of Labour and Social Policy
In office
15 May 2007 – 27 July 2012
Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković
Vojislav Koštunica
Preceded by Slobodan Lalović
Succeeded by Jovan Krkobabić
Minister of Human and Minority Rights of Serbia and Montenegro
In office
17 March 2003 – 3 June 2006
President Svetozar Marović
Minister of Human and Minority Rights of FR Yugoslavia
In office
4 November 2000 – 7 March 2003
President Vojislav Koštunica
Prime Minister Dragiša Pešić
Zoran Žižić
Personal details
Born (1964-01-28) 28 January 1964
Novi Pazar, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Nationality Bosniak
Political party Social Democratic Party of Serbia
(2008–)
Other political
affiliations		 Sandžak Democratic Party
(1993–)
Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak
(1990–1993)
Residence Belgrade, Serbia
Alma mater University of Sarajevo
Occupation Politician
Profession Physician

Rasim Ljajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Расим Љајић; Serbian pronunciation: [rǎːsim ʎǎːjitɕ]; born 28 January 1964) is a Serbian politician. He has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications since 27 July 2012. He is the president of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia, elected from 21 January 2007. Ljajić was also the president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.

Education

Ljajić graduated from the University of Sarajevo School of Medicine.

Political career

In 1990, Ljajić was elected Secretary General of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak as one of its founders, a branch of the SDA in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, aimed at gathering Bosniaks in Serbia. In 1993 he left the party and with dissidents formed the Sandžak Democratic Party, criticizing Sulejman Ugljanin for being an extremist and endorsing separatism from Yugoslavia in an effort to join an enlarged Bosnia dominated by Bosnian Muslims.

One of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia leaders, he became Minister of Human and Minority Rights in 2000 after the fall of Slobodan Milošević, and his mandate as a minister was extended in the rump DS-led 2001 government.[1]

Ljajić is the long-term Head of the Coordination Team with the Hague Tribunal. In the 2003 parliamentary election he unsuccessfully led a "Together for Tolerance", along with Nenad Čanak of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and Jožef Kasa of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians. However, that failed to pass the threshold.

Personal life

Ljajić is an ethnic Bosniak.[2] His relative and close friend Dževad Ljajić died in the military helicopter crash in Serbia on the night of 14 March 2015, which also claimed six other lives.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rasim Ljajić at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
  2. ↑ "Muslim Academy "part of election campaign" - English - on B92.net".
  3. ↑ "MINISTAR LJAJIĆ: Poginuo mi je rođak, brinuću o njegovoj porodici dok sam živ!". www.telegraf.rs.
Government offices
Preceded by
Slobodan Lalović		 Minister of Labour and Social Policy
2007–2012		 Succeeded by
Jovan Krkobabić
Preceded by
Verica Kalanović		 Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
2012–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Dušan Petrović (Trade)
Milutin Mrkonjić (Telecommunications)		 Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications
2012–present
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