Radoje Kontić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Radoje Kontić

Montenegrin politician and technologist

Date of Birth: 31-May-1937

Place of Birth: Nikšić, Nikšić Municipality, Montenegro

Profession: politician, political commissar, technologist

Nationality: Montenegro

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Radoje Kontic (Cyrillic: ?????? ??????; born 31 May 1937) is a retired Montenegrin politician and technologist.
He was the last Chairman of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro's Executive Council from 1989 to 1991 - a post which he obtained by riding the wave of the anti-bureaucratic putsch in Montenegro during January 1989.
He also served as the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from February 9, 1993 until May 19, 1998 when he lost a no-confidence vote.
He was a member of the League of Communists of Montenegro and later a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro. Like many others in the technocratically inclined second generation of Yugoslav communists, Kontic entered politics through directorial stints in state-owned companies.
In Kontic's particular case, he worked his way up the corporate/political ladder in the Nikšic steelmill throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.
Finally in 1978 he became a member of SR Montenegro's Executive Council, thus entering politics full-time.