Ruža Tomašić
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| Croatian member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2013 |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 22 December 2011 – 1 July 2013 |
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| Constituency | X electoral district |
| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 22 December 2003 – 12 October 2007 |
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| Constituency | X electoral district |
| President of the Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević |
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In office 12 September 2009 – 3 November 2014 |
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| Deputy | Pero Ćorić |
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10 May 1958 Mladoševica, SFR Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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Croatian Party of Rights (1990-2009) Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević (2009-2014) Croatian Conservative Party (2015-) |
| Alma mater | Ontario Police College |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Ruža Tomašić (Croatian pronunciation: [rǔːʒa tɔ̌maʃitɕ]) (born 10 May 1958) is a Croatian police officer and politician. She is a Member of the European Parliament since July 2013. From 2003 to 2008 she was MP elected from the list of the Croatian Party of Rights and from December 2011 to July 2013 only MP of the right-wing Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević.
She is a founder and a former member of the right-wing Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević. In the European parliament she is a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group.
On 17 January 2015 she joined the newly founded Croatian Conservative Party.
Ruža Tomašić was born in the village of Mladoševica,SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia and grew up with her parents, six sisters and a brother in the Slavonian village of Velika Kopanica. At age 15, she left Yugoslavia and joined her older sister, who was married and lived in Toronto, Canada. Tomašić worked on a variety of jobs to support herself before enrolling at the Ontario Police College, from which she graduated near the top of her class in 1981. In her career as a police officer in Toronto and Vancouver, she primarily dealt with juvenile delinquency and illegal drug trade, which included undercover work.
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