In addition, he served as President of Yugoslavia's Federal Council for the Protection of the Constitutional Order.
[1] On 12 March 1991, Bogićević famously defied fellow Presidency members from Serbia on a vote which would have imposed martial law in Yugoslavia.
Formally, the military leadership proposed raising combat readiness, but the real goal was to introduce military rule in Slovenia and Croatia and to overthrow the new political leaderships of Kiro Gligorov in Macedonia and of Alija Izetbegović in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina.
[2] Together with Macedonian Presidency member Vasil Tupurkovski, in July 1991, Bogićević mediated negotiations between the Slovenian government and the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) Supreme Command on the release of recruits and the unblocking of barracks during the Ten-Day War between the Slovenian Territorial Defence and the JNA.
[8] On 20 November 2020, Bogićević announced he would accept the appointment as mayor of Sarajevo by the four-party liberal alliance, colloquially called the Four, which was set to govern the City Council after the 2020 Bosnian municipal elections, and that also included the SDP BiH.