Ante Marković

Ante Marković (born the November 25th, 1924 with Konjic, Kingdom of Serb, the Croats and the Sloveniens (currently Bosnia-Herzégovine) was the last Prime Minister of the Federal Socialist République of Yugoslavia.

Biography

Of Croatian culture it is graduate Electrotechnical Department of the Technical Faculty of the Université of Zagreb in 1954.

In 1986 he became chief of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic Croatia (becoming thus the 7th Croatian president) to replace Emma Derosi-Bjelajac. It occupied this function up to 1988, where it was replaced by Latin Ivo.

Prime Minister of Yugoslavia: March 89 - December 91

He became Prime Minister in March 1989 after the resignation of Branko Mikulić. With the end of the year, Marković started a reform program economic very ambitious, comprising stabilization of the currency and Privatization by opening the capital of the companies to their employees. The result of this monetary reform was to stop the Inflation, which had touched Yugoslavia for several decades, as well as a rise, short but spectacular, standard of living, which did of Marković one of the most appreciated politicians Yugoslav history.

Marković owed its success with its image of modern Western policy, not haggling over the make-up during its televised appearances, or appearing in some televised publicities. Thus it became the whooping-cough of the liberal circles which wished the transformation of the Yugoslavia into a democratic federation. Marković preserved its popularity while remaining at the variation of the fights to be able within the Communist party of Yugoslavia or while trying to act like mediator between the various republics resulting from Yugoslavia.

With the bursting of Yugoslavia in 1990, its popularity and the apparent success of its reforms were side of Marković. In July 1990 it created the Union of the Forces of the Reform ( Know reformskih snaga ), political party pleading for federal and reformed Yugoslavia. According to a survey ordered by the SIV (federal Executive council), its party had the support of 14% of the population of Bosnia-Herzégovine and less than 5% in the other republics.

Its program was sabotaged by Slobodan Milošević and the Serbe government, and the authority of the federal government was reduced by the secessions of the Slovenia and the Croatia. In the last months of its mandate, Marković tried to find a compromise between the secessionists and those which claimed the maintenance of the Yougoslave union in only one entity. Its reforms, in spite of their continuation by the governments of Bosnia-Herzégovine and Macedonia, finally failed, because the armed - which was to be one their principal supports - took finally the party of Milošević and the Serbes nationalists.

In 1991, the the United States suspended all financial aids in Yugoslavia until the 6 republics organize of the free elections ( 1991 Foreign Operations Law Appropriations 101-513 ), thus contributing to a new destabilization of the economy, which was added to an important foreign debt.

Marković remained in function even after the beginning of the war, and resigned only in December 1991 , insulated and without any capacity. It disappeared then from the public life before being had a presentiment of like Prime Minister of Tuđman because of its competence on the economic plan. The station échut finally with Nikica Valentić, which used once again the receipts of Marković to stop inflation.

After the war

Marković is invested then in a career of business man, and worked as economic consultant for the government Macedonian with the beginning of the year 2000.

It was quoted like witness with the lawsuit of Slobodan Milošević with the Penal Tribunal for Ex-Yugoslavia in 2003. Its appearance broke 12 years of silence; after its deposition, it gave an interview to the magazine Globus (of Zagreb). In its testimony he declared that Tuđman and Milošević had assure him that in March 1991 they had concluded with Karađorđevo an agreement to draw aside it from the political life.

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