Milorad Pupovac

Milorad Pupovac (born 5 November 1955) is a Croatian politician and linguist of ethnic Serb descent. He is a member of Sabor and the president of the Serb National Council. He is also an observer at the European Parliament.

Pupovac was born in Donje Ceranje near Benkovac. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He holds a PhD in linguistics and is a professor at the University of Zagreb.

He was one of the leading members of the Association for Yugoslav Democratic Initiative, and after that he was the leader of the League of Social Democrats and head of the Social Democrat Alliance of Croatia – Social Democrat Alliance of Yugoslavia. He was a member of the Serb Democratic Party and the founder of the Serbian Democratic Forum.

At the beginning of 1995 he participated in the founding of the Independent Serb Party, and with founding of the Action of Social Democrats of Croatia he was involved in the activity of that party and as their representative he entered the Sabor after elections held in 1995. He cast the decisive vote needed to achieve the 2/3 majority necessary to amend the Croatian Constitution on 12 December 1997. It was the first amending of the Constitution since it's adoption on 22 December 1990 and the major amendments included the investiture of the Croatian War of Independence into the Constitution's text, as well as the adoption of articles prohibiting the beginning of negotiations on Croatia's entrance into associations with any former Yugoslav republics and articles defining the national minorities of Croatia. After that he founded the Independent Democratic Serb Party, led by Vojislav Stanimirović. On the list of that party he was a candidate for the Croatian Parliament several times. For a short while he was the president of the party, and today he is the vice-president.