Jadranka Kosor
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| 9th Prime Minister of Croatia | |
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In office 6 July 2009 – 23 December 2011 |
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| President |
Stjepan Mesić Ivo Josipović |
| Preceded by | Ivo Sanader |
| Succeeded by | Zoran Milanović |
| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 23 December 2011 – November 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Zoran Milanović |
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In office 7 September 1995 – 23 December 2003 |
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| Prime Minister |
Zlatko Mateša Ivica Račan |
| 5th Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 23 December 2011 – 21 May 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Zoran Milanović |
| Preceded by | Zoran Milanović |
| Succeeded by | Tomislav Karamarko |
| Leader of the Croatian Democratic Union | |
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In office 4 July 2009 – 21 May 2012 |
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| Deputy | Darko Milinović |
| Preceded by | Ivo Sanader |
| Succeeded by | Tomislav Karamarko |
| 3rd Minister of Family, Veterans' Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity | |
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In office 23 December 2003 – 6 July 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Ivo Sanader |
| Preceded by | Ivica Pančić |
| Succeeded by | Tomislav Ivić |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 July 1953 Pakrac, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Political party |
League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Before 1990) Croatian Democratic Union (1995–2013) Independent (2013–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Successful Croatia (2015–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
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Jadranka Kosor (pronounced [jǎdraːnka kɔ̂sɔr]; born 1 July 1953) is a Croatian politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence. However, she is the second woman in Croatian post-World War II history to hold an office equivalent to a head of government, after Savka Dabčević-Kučar, who from 1967 until 1969 held the office of Chairman of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) and headed the 5th cabinet of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, a constituent republic of Yugoslavia.
Kosor started working as a journalist, following her graduation from Faculty of Law of University of Zagreb. During the Croatian War of Independence, she hosted a radio show dealing with refugee problems and disabled war veterans. She joined the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in 1989 and quickly climbed up the party hierarchy. In 1995 she was elected party vice-president and was elected to serve in Parliament for the first time. After the death of President and longtime HDZ leader Franjo Tuđman, Kosor supported Ivo Sanader's successful party leadership bid in 2000. Three years later, her party won the parliamentary election and Kosor became the Minister of Family, Veterans' Affairs and Inter-generational Solidarity in the Sanader I and, later, Sanader II cabinet, during which time she served as Deputy Prime Minister as well. In the 2005 presidential election she ran as a representative of HDZ, but lost to incumbent President Stipe Mesić in the second round. After the abrupt resignation of Sanader, Kosor managed to form a functioning parliamentary majority and was approved to her new post as Prime Minister in July 2009, also becoming leader of her party. Kosor was the party's candidate for Prime Minister in the 2011 general election, but HDZ lost in a landslide over the centre-left Kukuriku coalition, led by the Social Democratic Party. Kosor handed power to the new Prime Minister, Zoran Milanović, in December 2011.
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