Boris Tadi was Serbia’s third president. He was born to a philosopher father and a psychologist mother. As a child, he was smart and grew up in a place with a lot of ideas. After getting a degree in social psychology, he worked in different fields. He was a journalist, a military psychologist, and a psychology professor before he finally went into politics. He was one of the people who helped start the Democratic Party, which was part of the big group of political parties that stood up to Slobodan Miloevi’s monopoly power. He held several positions in the party before becoming leader and running for president in the 2004 elections. He won the election and became Serbia’s third president. Most of the other political parties backed him when he ran for president again in 2008, so he kept his job. As President of Serbia, he worked to make his country more appealing to investors by making changes to the economy and opening up key sectors like telecommunications. In 2012, he quit as President to force an early election and make sure that the presidential election and the parliamentary election would happen at the same time. But Tomislav Nikolic beat him in the race for president.
Early years and childhood
On January 15, 1958, he was born in Sarajevo, the capital of the People’s Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to philosopher Ljubomir and psychologist Nevenka.
His family moved to Belgrade when he was three, where his father got a job at the newspaper “Liberation.” In Doral, he went to elementary school and graduated from the “First Belgrade Gymnasium.”
After that, he went to the University of Belgrade and got a degree in psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy. While he was in college, he was arrested for “taking part in the protests demanding that arrested students be released from detention.” He spent a month in jail.
Boris Tadic’s Career
He started out as a journalist, then worked as a clinical psychologist for the military, and later taught psychology at the “First Belgrade Gymnasium.” He also taught political advertising at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Drama.
He was one of the people who started the Democratic Party (DS) and its successor, the Socialist Party of Serbia, in 1990. (SPS). The main goal of this political group was to stop President Slobodan Milosevic from having a monopoly on power and call for democratic elections.
In the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he was named Minister of Telecommunications in 2000. From March 2003 to March 2005, he was Minister of Defense for Serbia and Montenegro. He was also a member of parliament for the Democratic Party and later the vice-speaker of that party.
After Zoran ini was killed in 2004, he was chosen as the new leader of the Democratic Party. He had been Zoran ini’s deputy for two terms. As the new leader of the Democratic Party, he was chosen as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2004 election.
Tomislav Nikoli of the nationalist Radical Party was his opponent in the 2004 elections. He beat him. He became the President of Serbia on July 11, 2004.
Since the new Constitution of Serbia went into effect, the law says that early presidential elections must be held. So, in 2008, there were presidential elections, and his party chose him again as their candidate.
He won the presidential election against Nikoli again in February 2008. On February 15, 2008, he took the oath of office in the National Assembly of Serbia.
On April 5, 2012, he gave his resignation, which led to an early call for both the presidential and parliamentary elections. This time, he lost to Tomislav Nikoli of the Serbian Progressive Party. He was criticized a lot for quitting his job early, which was seen as a major reason for his loss.
After losing the 2012 presidential election, he gave up his position as party leader and became the “Honorary President” of the party.
After Dragan beat him in the Democratic Party’s internal re-elections early in 2014, he gave up his position as honorary president and left the party.
Works of note
As the president of Serbia, he worked hard to get public services privatized and to keep the economy stable so that Serbia could have a better future.
Awards & Achievements
In 2007, the Swiss Foundation “Hans Ringier” of the Ringier Publishing House gave him the “European Prize for Political Culture.”
In 2008, he was given the “Quadriga Award,” which is a German award given out every year by Werkstatt Deutschland, a Berlin-based non-profit.
In 2009, Libya gave him a medal called the “40 Years of Revolution Medal.”
In 2011, the Council of Europe gave him a prize called the “North-South Prize.”
The “Ilyas Afandiyev International Prize” of Azerbaijan was given to him in 2012.
Personal History and Legacies
He was married to journalist Veselinka Zastavnikovi from 1980 to 1996. They didn’t have any kids and later split up.
Later, he got married to Tatjana Rodi. He has two daughters with her.
Estimated Net worth
Boris Tadic is estimated to have a net worth of $9 million, most of which comes from his work as a minister, politician, and psychologist. We don’t know enough about Boris Tadic’s cars or his way of life.
Trivia
In 1998, he started the Center for Modern Skills, a non-governmental organization that works on political and civic education, the development of political culture and dialogue, and civil education.