Dragoljub Mićunović
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Dragoljub Mićunović was one of the members of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party in December 1989 who began the process of re-establishing the Democratic Party. He was elected the first President of the re-established Democratic Party at the founding party conference on 3 February 1990.
He remained president of the party until 1994 when he resigned and with a group of prominent intellectuals, founded the Fond Center for Democracy, a non-governmental organization for the development of civil society and the non-governmental sector, civil education and preparation of political and social reforms.
In 1996, Dragoljub Mićunović founded a new political party, Democratic Centre (Serbia) (Demokratski Centar), of which he was elected president.
He has been an MP in the State and Federal legislatures for more than 10 years. At the first multiparty elections in Serbia in 1990, he was elected a Member of Parliament in Serbia on behalf of the Democratic Party. As a Member of Parliament on the state level, he was elected a delegate to the Chamber of the Republics of the Federal Assembly of ex-Yugoslavia in the period 1991-1992. At the Federal elections in 1992, Micunovic was elected a Member of the Federal Parliament as a representative of the Democratic Party. As a member of the opposition coalition “Zajedno”, he was re-elected a Member of Federal Parliament in the Chamber of Citizens in 1996.
At the federal elections in 2000, as one of the leaders of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) coalition, Micunović was again elected a Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly. After the victory of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia in October of 2000, he was elected President of the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly. When the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was established, in March of 2003, Dragoljub Mićunović was elected President of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro.
Dragoljub Mićunović is the winner of the first award for tolerance awarded by the Ministry for Human Rights, OEBS and B92 TV and radio station. For his contribution to the admission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Council of Europe he was presented an award by the European Movement in Serbia. In 2001 he was awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia for his active contribution to the work of the Community for democratic change in Yugoslavia which assembled representatives of different political parties, civil society and international organizations.
Dragoljub Mićunović's Democratic Centre party merged with the Democratic Party in 2004 and he is one of the leading candidates on behalf of the Democratic Party in the Serbian Parliamentary elections to be held on 21 January 2007.
