Skopje, 18 June 2024 (MIA) – Stojan Andov, the first president of the assembly since the declaration of independence, died on Tuesday, aged 89.

Born in 1935 in Kavadarci, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Skopje before earning a master’s degree at the Belgrade University.

Andov also served as vice president of the Republic’s executive council, was a member of the Macedonian delegation in the association of republics and provinces and a member of the federal government for three terms, during which his role as negotiator in the contacts of former Yugoslavia with European Economic Community experts (1971 – 1987) was noted. 

From 1987 until 1991, Andov served as an ambassador of the former Yugoslavia in Iraq. 

He founded the Liberal Party of Macedonia and was elected as vice president of the Liberal International.

Andov won a seat in Parliament in the first multi-party elections in the country, held in 1990 before being elected as president of the Parliament in January 1991.

He ran for president in the 1999 presidential elections.

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