{"id":"vojislav-kostunica","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/vojislav-kostunica","language":"en","name":"Vojislav Koštunica","name_en":"Vojislav Koštunica","name_ne":null,"description":"Serbian politician","headline":"Serbian politician","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Vojislav Koštunica (born 24 March 1944) is a Serbian former politician who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the prime minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008.","summary_more":["Koštunica won the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election as a candidate of a broad alliance Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), which led to the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević and the withdrawal of international sanctions against Yugoslavia. He strictly opposed cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and his party left the coalition government in protest at the decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY. After the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, the first elections after the dissolution of DOS and assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, Koštunica formed a minority government with the support of Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia and became the head of government. He was one of the crucial figures in the adoption of the first constitution of an independent Serbia, as well as for declaring Serbia a neutral country. During his second government (2007–2008), he opposed signing the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union, leading to the fall of the government after a year and the early elections won by pro-European parties.","He was one of the founders and the first president of the Democratic Party of Serbia from its creation in 1992 until 19 March 2014, when he resigned as party president and retired from active politics after his party failed to reach the 5% threshold to enter the Parliament on March 16 elections for the first time in its history. In October 2014, he left the party after disagreements with the new party leadership over what he saw as their abandonment of the policy of political neutrality. In November 2014, he was one of the founders of the right-wing eurosceptic…"],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"24 March 1944","date":"1944-03-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Belgrade","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3711"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Serbia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q403"},{"text":"Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83286"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"jurist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185351"},{"text":"pedagogue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1231865"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"New Democratic Party of Serbia (since 1992)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640380","start":"1992"},{"text":"Democratic Party (1989–1992)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281986","start":"1989","end":"1992"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Belgrade Faculty of Law","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1517780"},{"text":"University of Belgrade","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240631"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Prime Minister of Serbia (3 March 2004 – 7 July 2008)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q835586","start":"2004-03-03","end":"2008-07-07"},{"text":"President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (7 October 2000 – 7 March 2003)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61039224","start":"2000-10-07","end":"2003-03-07"},{"text":"President of Serbia and Montenegro (7 October 2000 – 7 March 2003)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q889950","start":"2000-10-07","end":"2003-03-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh 2nd class","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29043608"},{"text":"Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14539990"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojislav_Ko%C5%A1tunica","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Vojislav Koštunica born?","a":"Vojislav Koštunica was born on 24 March 1944 in Belgrade."},{"q":"What positions has Vojislav Koštunica held?","a":"Positions held by Vojislav Koštunica include: Prime Minister of Serbia (2004–2008); President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–2003); President of Serbia and Montenegro (2000–2003)."},{"q":"Where did Vojislav Koštunica study?","a":"Vojislav Koštunica was educated at University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade."}],"related":[{"name":"Aleksandar Vučić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/aleksandar-vucic"},{"name":"Ana Brnabić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ana-brnabic"},{"name":"Borisav Jović","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/borisav-jovic"},{"name":"Zoran Lilić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zoran-lilic"},{"name":"Bogoljub Jevtić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bogoljub-jevtic"},{"name":"Boris Tadić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/boris-tadic"},{"name":"Božidar Purić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bozidar-puric"},{"name":"Dobrica Ćosić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dobrica-cosic"},{"name":"Dragiša Cvetković","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dragisa-cvetkovic"},{"name":"Dušan Čkrebić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dusan-ckrebic"},{"name":"Goran Hadžić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/goran-hadzic"},{"name":"Ivan Stambolić","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ivan-stambolic"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/vojislav-kostunica-fa4515eeaf.jpg","width":338,"height":452,"license":"CC BY 2.0","credit":"European People's Party","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vojislav_Ko%C5%A1tunica_(2009).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Vojislav Koštunica","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vojislav_Ko%C5%A1tunica","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q33031","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33031","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Vojislav Koštunica (2009).jpg by European People's Party (CC BY 2.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vojislav_Ko%C5%A1tunica_(2009).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Vojislav Koštunica, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Vojislav Koštunica (2009).jpg — European People's Party, CC BY 2.0.","cite":"\"Vojislav Koštunica\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/vojislav-kostunica. Retrieved 10 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T13:59:50Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-10","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/vojislav-kostunica","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/vojislav-kostunica","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/vojislav-kostunica?lang=ne"}}