Milutin Mrkonjić
Milutin Mrkonjić was a Serbian politician. He co-founded the Socialist Party of Serbia, together with Slobodan Milošević.
Biography
Mrkonjić was born in 1942 in Belgrade, then occupied by Nazi Germany. His father was a Croatian Serb from the village of Bojna, near Glina, in the region of Banija. In 1968, Mrkonjić graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering. He was the first director of CIP - Institute of Transportation. Mrkonjić was the head of the Reconstruction Agency after NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia in 1999.On 8 May 2007, Mrkonjić became vice-president of the National Assembly of Serbia. On 7 July 2008, he became Minister for Infrastructure in the Serbian government. Mrkonjić became the Minister for Infrastructure and Energy in March 2011.
From 2012 until his death, Mrkonjić was in a relationship with Serbian singer Ana Bekuta. He died on 27 November 2021 at the age of 79. Mrkonjić was buried on 2 December in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens at the New Cemetery in Belgrade.