Velimir Vukićević

Velimir Vukićević
9th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
In office 17 April 1927 – 28 July 1928
Monarch	Alexander I
Preceded by	Nikola Uzunović
Succeeded by	Anton Korošec
Personal details
Born	11 July 1871 Oparić, Principality of Serbia
Died	27 November 1930 (1930-11-28) (aged 59) Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Citizenship	Yugoslav
Political party	People's Radical Party
Religion	Christian Orthodox

Velimir Vukićević (11 July 1871 – 27 November 1930) was a Serbian Yugoslav politician. He served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 17 April 1927 until 18 July 1928.

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 but as one of the chief "Palace Radicals" his role was help Alexander, the king, to clip Pašić's wings.^[1]

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 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.^[2] Vukicevic resigned shortly after violence among members of Parliament in which three Croatian members of Parliament were killed.

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