Velimir Vukićević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
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Place of Birth: Oparić, Serbia
About Velimir Vukićević
- Velimir Vukicevic (11 July 1871 – 27 November 1930) was a Serbian Yugoslav politician.
- He served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 17 April 1927 until 28 July 1928.
- After the parliamentary election on 11 September 1927 he was re-elected.
- Velimir Vukicevic was a middle school teacher by profession.
- Elected to Serbian National Assembly.
- He was a minister in several of the governments of Nikola Pašic but as one of the chief "Palace Radicals" his role was help Alexander, the king, to clip Pašic's wings.His term was marked by an exceptional lack of ethnic tension in Croatia but as the cause was the political alliance of the leading Croat politician Stjepan Radic and the leading Croatian Serb politician Svetozar Pribicevic in a united opposition to the government, this was a very unwelcome development for the government.
- Vukicevic put pressure on papers dependent on government subsidy to launch a violent campaign against the opposition.
- Vukicevic resigned shortly after violence among members of Parliament in which three Croatian members of Parliament were killed.
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