the Bulatović cabinet collapsed. Žižić resigned on 29 June 2001, after 8 months in office, in protest over the extradition of Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY. He left the position on 24 July 2001 when a new cabinet was formed following the 2001 Montenegrin parliamentary election, led by his party colleague Dragiša Pešić. Starting in July 2001 when the leadership of the SNP under Predrag Bulatović supported Pešić, Žižić was in conflict with his party. This culminated in January 2005 with the founding of the Movement for the Joint European State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, which grouped together several Serbian nationalist parties and pro-union moderates. Žižić was voted Chief of the Organizational Committee of the Movement on 20 January, and President of the Movement on 27 January 2005. The increasingly moderate SNP under Bulatović declined to join, trying to change its image into that of a democratic civic party. Žižić was expelled from the SNP in early April 2005. Žižić was the President of the Democratic Party of Unity, a party he formed in July 2006. The party was a part of Andrija Mandić's Serb List and Democratic Front coalitions. Personal life and death Žižić was married to Mira Žižić, with whom he had two children – daughter Sonja and son Vuk. Zoran Žižić died after an operation on 4 January 2013 in Podgorica, aged 61. His funeral was attended by Prime Minister of Serbia Ivica Dačić. References 1951 births 2013 deaths Politicians from Podgorica Serbs of Montenegro Democratic Party of Unity politicians Socialist People's Party of Montenegro politicians Academic staff of the University of Montenegro Burials in Montenegro Deputy Prime Ministers of Montenegro