Čedomir Jovanović

Čedomir Jovanović
Чедомир Јовановић
Jovanović in 2015
Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
In office
18 March 2003  3 March 2004
Prime MinisterZoran Živković
Personal details
Born (1971-04-13) 13 April 1971
Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Political partyDS (1998–2005)
LDP (2005–present)
SpouseJelena Savić
Alma materUniversity of Arts in Belgrade
University of Belgrade
OccupationPolitician, businessman
ProfessionDramaturg, playwriter
NicknameČeda
Military service
Allegiance SFR Yugoslavia
Branch/service Yugoslav People's Army
Years of service1992
Battles/warsBosnian War

Čedomir "Čeda" Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Чедомир Чеда Јовановић, pronounced [tʃědomir tʃěːda joʋǎːnoʋitɕ] ; born 13 April 1971) is a Serbian politician and businessman.

During the presidency of Slobodan Milošević in Yugoslavia, Jovanović became one of the student leaders of the 1996–1997 protests in Serbia at the age of 25. Jovanović along with fellow student Čedomir Antić were one of the founding members of the "Student Political Club", abbreviated in Serbian as SPK, which successfully organised a massive boycott of the 1997 Serbian general election. In February 1998, the bulk of the SPK membership along with Jovanović himself joined the Democratic Party.

After the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, Jovanović was selected by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia to be one of its MPs, and he subsequently became the youngest parliamentary caucus leader in Serbian history, at the age of 29. In the post-Milošević period, he was a target of several assassination attempts and attacks. On 6 February 2001, an explosive device destroyed Jovanović's automobile. On 31 March 2001, he was left unscathed from a minor shooting incident at the scene of Milošević's arrest, during which he was a negotiator. In July 2002, Minister of Interior Dušan Mihajlović commented that "Jovanović was on all the hit lists" of "centers of power".

Jovanović was expelled from the Democratic Party in 2004 due to breaking party protocols. He subsequently founded his own political party in November 2005, called the Liberal Democratic Party. He was his party's candidate in Serbia's presidential elections in 2008 and 2012.