Blaà ¾o Jovanovià(Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic; ÃÂûðöþ ÃÂþòðýþòøÃÂ; ; 28 March 1907 â 4 February 1976) was a Montenegrin politician and revolutionary army commander in the Yugoslav Partisans. He served as the first President of the People's Assembly of Montenegro and was also the speaker of the Parliament of the People's Republic of Montenegro from 1954 to 1963.
Blaà ¾o Jovanoviàwas born in Podgorica, the largest city of Principality of Montenegro, into a middle class family. During World War II, he was one of the most important leaders of the Provincial Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party of Montenegro, the Bay of Kotor and the Sandà ¾ak; in the summer of 1941 he was with Milovan ÃÂilas, one of the main leaders of the Montenegrin insurrection against the Italian occupant.
On 18 July 1941 he practically assumed the function of political commissar with the title of "person for the connection with the people" of the so-called "supreme temporary command" of the insurrectionary forces in Montenegro, while ÃÂilas became the superior commander, and Arso JovanoviÃÂ, a distant relative of Blaà ¾o, became the chief of staff. He was the second president of the People's Assembly of Montenegro, he was also president of the Parliament of the People's Republic of Montenegro from 1954 to 1963.