Zoran Milanović
| Zoran Milanović | |
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| 10thPrime Minister of Croatia | |
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In office 23 December 2011 – 22 January 2016 |
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| President |
Ivo Josipović Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović |
| Deputy |
Radimir Čačić Vesna Pusić |
| Preceded by | Jadranka Kosor |
| Succeeded by | Tihomir Orešković |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 22 January 2016 – 26 November 2016 |
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| Prime Minister |
Tihomir Orešković Andrej Plenković |
| Preceded by | Tomislav Karamarko |
| Succeeded by | Davor Bernardić |
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In office 2 June 2007 – 23 December 2011 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ivo Sanader Jadranka Kosor |
| Preceded by | Željka Antunović (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Jadranka Kosor |
| 2nd President of the Social Democratic Party | |
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In office 2 June 2007 – 26 November 2016 |
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| Deputy |
Zlatko Komadina Milanka Opačić Gordan Maras Rajko Ostojić |
| Preceded by | Željka Antunović (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Davor Bernardić |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 October 1966 Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Republic of Croatia) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (1999–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Croatia Is Growing (2010–16) People's Coalition (2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Sanja Musić |
| Children | Jakov Marko |
| Alma mater |
University of Zagreb Free University of Brussels |
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| ^a Counting from the 1990 Croatian parliamentary election. 22nd Croatian prime minister overall. | |
Zoran Milanović (pronounced [zǒran milǎːnoʋit͡ɕ]; born 30 October 1966) is a Croatian politician who served as the 10th Prime Minister of Croatia from December 2011 to January 2016. He was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the largest centre-left political party in Croatia, from 2007 until November 2016. As such, apart from serving as Prime Minister, he was also the Leader of the Opposition on two separate occasions, from 2007 to 2011 and from January to November 2016, when Davor Bernardić succeeded him as SDP chairman.
After graduating from the Zagreb Law School, Milanović started working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as counselor at the Croatian Mission to the European Union and NATO in Brussels from 1996-99. That same year he joined the Social Democratic Party. In 1998 he earned his master's degree in European Union law at the Flemish University in Brussels and was an assistant to the Foreign Minister of Croatia for political multilateral affairs in 2003.
In June 2007 he was elected party leader, following the death of longtime leader and former Prime Minister Ivica Račan. In the 2007 parliamentary election, the party came in second and were unable to form a governing majority. Despite losing the election, he was reelected party leader in 2008. In 2011, Milanović initiated the formation of the Kukuriku coalition, uniting four centre-left political parties. The coalition won an absolute majority in the 2011 parliamentary election, with SDP itself becoming the strongest party in the Parliament. Milanović became Prime Minister on 23 December 2011, after the Parliament approved his cabinet.
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