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Stjepan Mesić

President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (pronounced[stjêpaːnstǐːpeměːsit͡ɕ]; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatianlawyer and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as the speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica.

Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, and was then absent from politics until 1990 when he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and was named President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (then still a constituent republic of the SFR Yugoslavia) after HDZ won the elections. His cabinet is, despite holding office before Croatia's independence, considered by the Government of Croatia to have been the first govern

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Biography of Croatian President Stjepan Mesic

ZAGREB, Jan 17 (Hina) - Stjepan Mesic, who on Sunday won Croatia's fourth presidential election for a second term in office, was born in Orahovica on 24 December 1934.

He graduated at Zagreb's Law School. In the early 1970s, due to his participation in the Croatian Spring movement, he spent one year in jail in Stara Gradiska.

In 1990 he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, becoming a senior official.

After Croatia's first multiparty elections in 1990, Mesic was appointed Croatia's first prime minister. That year the Croatian Parliament appointed him to the Presidency of Socialist Yugoslavia (SFRJ).

In July 1991, he became the chairman of the SFRJ Presidency, resigning from the post in December that year.

He was elected Croatian Parliament speaker in September 1992, from which post he was replaced in May 1994 over his public criticism of the policy of the ruling HDZ, notably towards neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. He left the HDZ and formed the Croatian Independent Democrats (HND).

After rifts in the HND, Mesic jo

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President Stjepan Mesić

Former President of Croatia

Biography

Stjepan Mesić (born 24 December 1934) is a Croatian politician who served as the second President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before his ten-year presidential term, he held the posts of Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), Prime Minister of Croatia (1990), the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991), Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), a judge in Našice, and mayor of his home town of Orahovica.

Mr. Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, and was absent from politics until 1990 when he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and was named Prime Minister after HDZ won the elections. He was appointed to serve as SR Croatia's member of the Yugoslav Federal Presidency where he served first as Vice President. In 1991 he served as the last President of Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia dissolved.

Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Mesić served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1992 to 1994, when he left HDZ. With severa