Velimir Vukićević (11 July 1871 – 27 November 1930) was a

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Yugoslav politician. He served as

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from 17 April 1927 until 28 July 1928. After the parliamentary election on 11 September 1927 he was re-elected. Velimir Vukićević was a middle school teacher by profession. Elected to Serbian National Assembly. He was a minister in several of the governments of

Nikola Pašić Nikola Pašić ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Пашић, ; 18 December 1845 – 10 December 1926) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat who was a leading political figure for almost 40 years. He was the leader of the People's Radical ...

but as one of the chief "Palace Radicals" his role was help

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, the king, to clip Pašić's wings. His term was marked by an exceptional lack of ethnic tension in Croatia but as the cause was the political alliance of the leading Croat politician Stjepan Radić and the leading Croatian Serb politician

Svetozar Pribićević Svetozar Pribićević ( sr-cyr, Светозар Прибићевић}, ; 26 October 1875 – 15 September 1936) was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was one of the main proponents of Yugoslavism a ...

in a united opposition to the government, this was a very unwelcome development for the government. Vukićević put pressure on papers dependent on government subsidy to launch a violent campaign against the opposition.Atentat na Stjepana Radića Žvonomir Kulunžić pp261-5 Vukicevic resigned shortly after violence among members of Parliament in which three

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n members of Parliament were killed.

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1871 births 1930 deaths People from Rekovac People from the Principality of Serbia People's Radical Party politicians Prime Ministers of Yugoslavia {{Yugoslavia-bio-stub