Sejdo Bajramović ( or ''Bajrami''; ; 7 July 1927 – 1993) was a Yugoslav soldier and politician of the former Yugoslavia, who was the acting head of state of the

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for a brief time in 1991. Born in

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, Bajramović was elected as member of the presidency representing

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, when the Serbian president

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out-manoeuvred the incumbent Riza Sapunxhiu, through a recall by the

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. In the same move, he also became acting head of state (coordinator of the

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, as Milošević initially refused to accept the President-designate

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, representing

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, and unilaterally declared the presidency incapable of functioning. As the provincial legislature of Kosovo was suspended, Bajramović was appointed as presidency member by the Assembly of the

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. Delegates from Slovenia and Croatia as well as Kosovo Albanian delegates protested his appointment as illegitimate and anti-constitutional given the dissolvement of the assembly. In his Kosovo constituency, he had been elected with only 0.03% of the vote (ethnic Albanians boycotted the Serbian elections). Prior to this role, he was a sergeant first class in the

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