Miodrag Živković

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Miodrag "Miko" Živković (Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг "Мико" Живковић)(b. 20 September 1957 in Kotor, SFRY) is the president of the opposition Liberal Party of Montenegro and one of its representatives in the Parliament of Montenegro.

Born on 20 September 1957 in Kotor Socialist Republic of Montenegro, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Miko graduated at Kotor's Faculty of Law in 1981 and finished the judicial exam in Belgrade in 1982. The same year he was accepted as a judge of Kotor's Basic Court, a post which he held for 8 years continually, in parallel with State Court official for a short time, until he left the state institutions in 1990, disappointed in the state's ideological policies under Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović and Svetozar Marović of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro that favored authoritarianism and Serbian nationalism.

He opened the same year a private business as a lawyer and actively worked in the liberal movement that that formed itself as the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro in 1991, starting his political career as delegate of LSCG to the municipal board in Kotor. In 1994 he was elected President of LSCG's municipal board in Kotor and greatly contributed to the Liberals' popularity and strength in Kotor's municipality. After May 1998 at which LSCG was considerably weakened and when the improvised pro-democratic bloc of Milo Đukanović won, he stood up as the Liberals' leader, braking away from the somewhat nationalist tendencies of his predecessors. Repairing LSCG's position in 2001, he cooperated with the pro-Serbia Together for Change opposition political alliance but due to ideological difference mainly centered in his support of an independent Montenegro, he supported a minority DPS-SDP government of Filip Vujanović. In 2002 he opposed the Belgrade Agreement which formed the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro fully reintegrating Montenegro into a common state with Serbia, bringing down the government with the rest of the opposition. However his position was considerably weakened at the same year's parliamentary elections, when Milo Đukanović managed to form a government alone.

After in vain attempting to recuperate LSCG's losses, he was excluded from the Alliance and joined a fraction known as the Liberal Party of Montenegro. He ran at the repeated 2003 presidential election on 11 May attaining second place with 68,133 votes or 31.4% of those who voted and lost to DPS candidate Filip Vujanović. On 31 October 2004 LPCG held a Constitutional Assembly on which he was elected Party's president and the Liberal Alliance subsequently officially dissolving as a political party. At the 2006 independence referendum he joined Milo Djukanovic's Bloc for an independent Montenegro and served as one of its key leaders, brining it to a victory. He led LP CG into a coalition with the Bosniac Party that ran together at the same year's subsequent constitutional parliamentary election, managing to pass the census.

For the successes, he was reelected Party President on 25 November 2006.

He is married to Milica Ranković and in 1987 they had a daughter, Sanja.