Sejdo Bajramović

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Sejdo Bajramović
President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (acting)
In office 16 May 1991 – 30 June 1991
Prime Minister	Ante Marković
Preceded by	Borisav Jović
Succeeded by	Stjepan Mesić
4th Kosovar member of the Yugoslav Presidency
In office 31 March 1991 – 27 April 1992
Preceded by	Riza Sapunxhiu
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Personal details
Born	(1927-07-07)7 July 1927 Žuja, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died	1993 (aged 65–66) Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Yugoslav, Serbian
Political party	League of Communists of Yugoslavia Socialist Party of Serbia
Military service
Allegiance	Yugoslavia
Branch/service	Yugoslav People's Army
Rank	Sergeant first class

Sejdo Bajramović (Albanian: Sejdo Bajramoviq or Bajrami; Serbian Cyrillic: Сејдо Бајрамовић; 7 July 1927^[1] – 1993) was a Yugoslav soldier and politician of the former Yugoslavia, who was the acting head of state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for a brief time in 1991.

Born in Kosovska Kamenica, Bajramović was elected as member of the presidency representing Kosovo, when the Serbian president Slobodan Milošević out-manoeuvred the incumbent Riza Sapunxhiu, through a recall by the Serbian Parliament. In the same move, he also became acting head of state (coordinator of the presidency of Yugoslavia, as Milošević initially refused to accept the President-designate Stipe Mesić, representing Croatia, and unilaterally declared the presidency incapable of functioning.

As the provincial legislature of Kosovo was suspended, Bajramović was appointed as presidency member by the Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. His unquestioned loyalty to Milošević and obvious lack of a democratic mandate in difference to the rest of the presidency, made him remembered as a mere puppet for the Milošević administration and his name became synonymous with "quisling", "proxy" and "false alibi".

Bajramović's only merit before being handpicked by Milošević to vote on behalf of Kosovo, was being a sergeant first class in the Yugoslav People's Army.

• Viktor Meier, Yugoslavia - A History of its Demise. London: Routledge, 1999
• Stipe Mesić, The Demise of Yugoslavia - A Political Memoir. Central European University Press, 2004