Ivo Josipovic
| Ivo Josipović | |
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| 3rd President of Croatia | |
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In office 19 February 2010 – 18 February 2015 |
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| Prime Minister |
Jadranka Kosor Zoran Milanović |
| Preceded by | Stjepan Mesić |
| Succeeded by | Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović |
| Member of Parliament for the 1st electoral district | |
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In office 22 December 2003 – 19 February 2010 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
28 August 1957 Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Political party |
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1980-1990) Social Democratic Party (1990–1994, 2008–2010) Forward Croatia-Progressive Alliance (2015-) |
| Spouse(s) | Tatjana Josipović |
| Children | Lana |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
| Profession | Lawyer, musician |
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| Website | predsjednica.hr/IvoJosipović |
Ivo Josipović (pronounced [ǐːʋo josǐːpoʋit͡ɕ]; born 28 August 1957) is a Croatian jurist, composer and politician who served as the third President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.
Josipović entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), and played a key role in the democratic transformation of the League of Communists of Croatia into the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the author of its first statute. He left politics in 1994, but returned in 2003, winning a seat in the Croatian Parliament running as an independent candidate on the SDP party list. He won reelection to parliament as a member of the SDP in 2007. In addition to politics, Josipović has also worked as a university professor, legal expert, musician and composer.
Following the end of his first term in parliament in January 2008, he ran in the 2009–10 presidential election as the candidate of the Social Democrats, which he had rejoined in January 2008. In the first round he topped eleven rivals with 32.4% of the vote, and entered the run-off with independent conservative populist candidate and mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić, who had secured 14.8%. He won the election with 60.28% of the vote in the second election.
His campaign was titled New Justice (Nova Pravednost), calling for a new legal framework to address deep social injustice, corruption and organised crime. This included protection of individual rights and promotion of fundamental values such as equality, human rights, LGBT rights, justice, diligence, social empathy and creativity. Josipović was inaugurated on 18 February 2010, at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb. His term officially began at midnight on 19 February.
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