The former prominent Montenegrin politician and official of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), Zoran Žižić, died around 18 pm, at the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) in Podgorica at the age of 62.
Despite the efforts of doctors to save him, Žižić died shortly after the operation.
Zoran Žižić was born on March 4, 1951 in what was then Titograd. He obtained his master's degree at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, and after completing his studies, he returned to the capital of Montenegro and took a job at the Faculty of Law.
He became politically active in 1988, he was a participant in the so-called AB revolution, which was followed by involvement in the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and in high positions in Montenegro, and later in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY).
At the beginning of the 90s, he was the Vice-President of the Government of Montenegro for internal policy, and later the Vice-President of the Parliament of Montenegro.
After the split of the unified DPS, Žižić joined the Socialist People's Party (SNP), whose vice-president he was until 2005, when he parted ways with the then leadership. He actively participated in the Bloc for the Preservation of the State Union during the referendum campaign, and afterwards formed the Democratic Party of Unity (DSJ), of which he was the president.
Žižić was the federal prime minister from November 4, 2000 to July 24, 2001, and he resigned due to the extradition of Slobodan Milošević to the Hague Tribunal.
He is one of the creators of the so-called Žabljak Constitution from 1993, and he participated in the writing of the Constitutional Charter of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. Žižić left behind his wife, son Vuk and daughter Sonja.
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