Dragutin Lesar
| Dragutin Lesar | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 22 December 2003 – 25 September 2015 |
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| President | Stjepan Mesić (2003-2010) Ivo Josipović (2010-2015) Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (2015) |
| Prime Minister | Ivo Sanader (2003-2009) Jadranka Kosor (2009-2011) Zoran Milanović (2011-2015)) |
| Constituency | III electoral district |
| 1st President of the Croatian Labourists – Labour Party | |
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In office 31 March 2010 – 25 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Nansi Tireli |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 March 1956 Mačkovec, Croatia |
| Political party | Croatian Labourists – Labour Party (2010-2015) |
| Other political affiliations |
Croatian People's Party (1996-2008) |
| Spouse(s) | Anica Lesar |
| Residence | Šenkovec, Čakovec, Croatia |
| Occupation | Politician, union leader |
Dragutin Lesar (born 4 March 1956) is a retired Croatian politician. Originally a union leader in the 1980s, he joined the liberal Croatian People's Party (HNS) in 1996. As member of HNS he was elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2003 and 2007 general elections and served in the 5th and 6th Sabor. In April 2008 he resigned from HNS and continued to serve in the parliament as an independent. In April 2010 he founded the left wing Croatian Labourists – Labour Party (HL) and became their first party president.
Dragutin Lesar was born on 4 March 1956 in village Mačkovec near Čakovec in Socialist Republic of Croatia. He attended a primary school in Mačkovec, and later Šenkovec, where he moved in 1953. Due to poor financial situation, his secondary education is that of a commercialist, despite his wishes to attend a gymnasium in Zagreb. His father died in 1972, after an accident at the workplace. Lesar sponsored his own education with various awards he received as an excellent student. After finishing high school in 1975, he worked at a number of places: a department store, a shoe store and an iron foundry in Čakovec. While working at the foundry he also studied sales management.
He started his trade union activities in 1978 as a union representative. In 1980 he became secretary of the Čakovec Municipal Council of Trade Unions. He leaves the Municipal Council of Trade Unions because of the disagreement with local Communist Party officials. After that, he moved to Mursko Središće and employed in "Gorenje-Mural", an aluminium radiator factory, where he worked as a sales director. After that, he is employed in the iron foundry in Čakovec, where he conducts procurement operations and forms commercial service. In 1985 he joins again the trade union. He became secretary of the trade union in Čakovec by a tender. On his initiative, on 7 April 1990 "Union of Workers Employed in Private Sector" was founded. This union was later renamed "Croatian Union of Non-Industrial Workers and Private Employees".
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