Branko Kostić, former member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) and former candidate for the President of Montenegro, died today at the age of 81.
Kostić was born on August 28, 1939 in Rvaši near Cetinje.
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade.
He became a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1957.
He was the organizational secretary of the faculty committee and the secretary of the University Committee of the SKJ in Belgrade, a member of the Central Committee of the SK of Montenegro since the Fourth Congress, a member and president of the Central Committee of the Youth League of Montenegro since 1963, a member and president of the Central Committee of the Youth League of Yugoslavia, a member of the Executive Board of the SSRN of Montenegro, President of the Section for Social Organizations of the Republic of Montenegro Conference.
He was also a consultant for the commercial affairs of the Aluminijumski kombinat in what was then Titograd.
He was the President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro (SR) from March 17, 1989 to December 23, 1990 and acting President of the Presidency of the SFRY from December 6, 1991 to June 15, 1992, when the position was abolished.
He was also the 14th General Secretary of the Non-Aligned Movement from December 6, 1991 to June 15, 1992.
From May 16, 1991, he was a member of the Presidency of the SFRY.
In the second round of the presidential elections in Montenegro in 1993, Kostić lost to Momir Bulatović.
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