Čedomir Jovanović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetČedomir Jovanović
Serbian politician
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1971
Place of Birth: Belgrade, Belgrade District
Profession: politician, entrepreneur
Nationality: Serbia
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Čedomir Jovanović
- Cedomir "Ceda" Jovanovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ???? ?????????; Serbian pronunciation: [t?edomir t?e?da jo?a?no?it?] listen ; born 13 April 1971) is a Serbian politician and businessman.During the presidency of Slobodan Miloševic in Yugoslavia, Jovanovic became one of the student leaders of the 1996–97 protests in Serbia at the age of 25.
- Jovanovic along with fellow student Cedomir Antic were one of the founding members of the "Student Political Club", abbreviated in Serbian as SPK, which successfully organized a massive boycott of the 1997 Serbian general election.
- In February 1998, the bulk of the SPK membership along with Jovanovic himself joined the Democratic Party.After the overthrow of Slobodan Miloševic, Jovanovic was selected by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia to be one of its MPs, and he subsequently became the youngest parliamentary caucus leader in Serbian history, at the age of 29.
- In the post-Miloševic period, he was a target of several assassination attempts and attacks.
- On February 6, 2001, an explosive device destroyed Jovanovic's automobile.
- On March 31, 2001, he was left unscathed from a minor shooting incident at the scene of Miloševic's arrest, during which he was a negotiator.
- In July 2002, Minister of Interior Dušan Mihajlovic commented that "Jovanovic was on all the hit lists" of "centers of power".Jovanovic was expelled from the Democratic Party in 2004 due to breaking party protocols.
- He subsequently founded his own political party in November 2005, called the Liberal Democratic Party.
- He was his party's candidate in Serbia's presidential elections in 2008 and 2012.
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