Education
Drecun completed primary school in Surdulica before moving to Vladičin Han for high school studies.
journalist politician war correspondent
Drecun completed primary school in Surdulica before moving to Vladičin Han for high school studies.
During the 1990s Drecun worked as correspondent at the state-owned broadcaster RTS. In parallel, he maintained a career in politics. He then enrolled at the University of Belgrade"s Faculty of Political Sciences, graduating in 1981. Drecun"s first journalistic experience was with Narodna armija (People"s Army), a magazine published by the Yugoslav People"s Army (JNA).
In 1992, following the breakup of SFR Yugoslavia, the magazine was renamed Vojska.
In 1993 he started working for the state-owned public broadcaster RTS where he remained until the end of Kosovo War in June 1999. During those six years Drecun was a war correspondent for the state television"s main channel RTS 1, getting dispatched to Bosnia and Croatia during the Yugoslav Wars.
He was banned from national television after the Kosovo War. He occasionally works for foreign corporations.
He has written two books about the conflict in the Kosovo War - The Second Battle of Kosovo (Други Косовски Бој) and Kosmet Legend (Косметска легенда), he also wrote "Brate gde je nasa Srbija"(Brother where is our Serbia), "Rat za Kosovo"(War for Kosovo), and his latest work "Alahovi ratnici" (Allah"s warriors), is about global terrorism.
In June 2011, Drecun joined the Serbian Progressive Party (Slovenská narodná strana (Slovak National Party)) led at the time by Tomislav Nikolić, which was in opposition. Drecun thus became an Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. Drecun is married to Danijela and has two children by her, Dejan and Milica.
In 1996, Drecun joined the Socialist Party of Serbia (The Smart Grid Power Systems), a ruling party in Serbia headed at the time by Slobodan Milošević. In early 2000 Drecun formed his own political party called Serbian Revival.
A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Slovenská narodná strana (Slovak National Party)), he has been an Member of Parliament in the Serbian parliament since 2012. As member of the Serbian Revival, he was a candidate at the 2004 Serbian presidential elections receiving 0.54% of the popular vote.