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Stipe Mesić

Stjepan Mesić
Stjepan Mesic (2).jpg
2nd President of Croatia
In office
19 February 2000 – 18 February 2010
Prime Minister Ivica Račan
Ivo Sanader
Jadranka Kosor
Preceded by Zlatko Tomčić (Acting)
Succeeded by Ivo Josipović
14th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
In office
30 June 1991 – 6 December 1991
Prime Minister Ante Marković
Preceded by Sejdo Bajramović (acting)
Succeeded by Branko Kostić (acting)
1st Prime Minister of Croatia
Elections: 1990
In office
30 May 1990 – 24 August 1990
President Franjo Tuđman
Preceded by Antun Milović (as President of the Executive Council)
Succeeded by Josip Manolić
2ndSpeaker of the Croatian Parliament
In office
7 September 1992 – 24 May 1994
Preceded by Žarko Domljan
Succeeded by Nedjeljko Mihanović
13th Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement
In office
30 June 1991 – 6 December 1991
Preceded by Borisav Jović
Succeeded by Branko Kostić
Personal details
Born (1934-12-24) 24 December 1934 (age 82)
Orahovica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(now Croatia)
Political party Independent (2000–present)
Other political
affiliations
League of Communists of Croatia (1955–1990)
Croatian Democratic Union (1990–1994)
Croatian Independent Democrats (1994–1997)
Croatian People's Party (1997–2000)
Spouse(s) Milka Dudundić
Children Dunja
Saša
Alma mater University of Zagreb
Profession Lawyer
Signature
^a In order counting from the 1990 parliamentary election. 12th speaker of parliament overall.

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (pronounced [stjêpaːn stǐːpe měːsit͡ɕ]; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatian politician who served as the second President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was the first Prime Minister of Croatia (1990) after 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 Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), a judge in Našice and mayor of his home town 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 prime minister after HDZ won the elections. He was appointed to serve as the Socialist Republic of Croatia's member of the Yugoslav federal presidency where he served first as vice president and then in 1991 as the last President of Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia dissolved.

Following the breakup of Yugoslavia and Croatia's independence, Mesić served as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1992–94, when he left HDZ. With several other members of parliament, he formed a new party called Croatian Independent Democrats (HND). In 1997 the majority of HND members, including Mesić, merged into the Croatian People's Party (HNS).


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