Vlado Buckovski (Macedonian: ????? ?????????; born 2 December 1962) is a former prime minister of the Republic of Macedonia, elected by parliament on 15 December 2004.
He was previously the defense minister of Macedonia from May 2001 to November 2001 and from November 2002 to December 2004.
He was president of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia.
After the 2006 election defeat by the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE, Radmila Šekerinska took over the party's leadership.On 9 December 2008, Buckovski was found guilty of abuse of power while serving as defence minister during an armed conflict in 2001 and sentenced to three and a half years in jail.
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