Югославияның соңғы премьер-министрі Анте Маркович

Last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991

Ante Marković (; 25 November 1924 – 28 November 2011) was a Croatian and Yugoslav politician, businessman and engineer. He is most notable for having served as the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991.

Marković, was a Bosnian Croat, born in Konjic, then a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, presently in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a poor peasant family. In 1943 he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and fought with the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the Electrotechnical Department of the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1954. He remained in Zagreb, where he was a director of Rade Končar Industrial Works from 1961 to 1984.

In 1986, he became president of the Presidency of Socialist Republic of Croatia replacing Ema Derosi Bjelajac. He held that position until 1988, when he was replaced by Ivo Latin.

Approximately at noon of 7 October 1991, Marković met with Stjepan Mesić, then President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia and Franjo Tuđman, then President of Croatia in the Banski dvori. The purpose of the meeting was to persuade Marković to leave his position as the head of the Yugoslav federal government and endorse Croatian independence. Nonetheless the persuasion left Marković unfazed and unplacated. The three then moved into the president's office for dessert. Shortly after, the Yugoslav People's Army attempted to assassinate Marković along with the democratically elected leadership of Croatia with a decapitation strike on Banski dvori. Marković immediately blamed Yugoslav defense minister Veljko Kadijević, and refused to return to Belgrade until Kadijević resigned from his post. In the early 2000s, he worked as an economic advisor to the Macedonian government. In the late 2000s, he worked as an economic advisor to the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Marković also dedicated himself to a business career and spent most of his time in Sarajevo, building luxury apartment buildings and small hydropower plants. Milošević responded by blaming Marković for the intervention of the Yugoslav Army in Slovenia. Marković died in the early hours of 28 November 2011 after a short illness, aged 87. Ante Marković was buried in Dubrovnik. His funeral was attended by former Croatian president Stjepan Mesić, president of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, filmmaker Emir Kusturica among many others. The Croatian Sabor (parliament) also sent their condolences to the family of Ante Marković.