Stjepan Mesić

Also known as Stjepan Mesiq, Stjepan Mesiç

2nd President of the Republic of Croatia

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Stjepan Mesić is a male politician born on December 24, 1934. He works in the field of politics and is associated with the Croatian language.

His nationalities include HR, HRV, and YU.

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Lifespan: b. 1934
Nationality: HR, HRV, YU
Role / Field: Politycy i polityczki, Polityka
Language: hrv
Gender: Male

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Stjepan
Gender: male
Citizenship: Croatia
Place of birth: Orahovica
Occupation: lawyer
Position held: President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
Educated at: Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb
Languages spoken: Croatian
Award: Order of the Star of Romania
Image: Stjepan Mesić (2004-02-25) (cropped).jpg

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Commons category: Stjepan Mesić
date of birth: 1934-12-24
name in native language: Stjepan Mesić
candidacy in election: 2005 Croatian presidential election
P10632: Stjepan Mesić

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Encyclopedic overview

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić ( pronounced [stjêpan stǐːpe měːsit͡ɕ]; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first 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 the speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), and mayor of his hometown 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 President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (then still a constituent republic of the SFR Yugoslavia) after HDZ won the elections. His cabinet is, despite holding office before Croatia's independence, considered by the Government of Croatia to have been the first government cabinet of the current Croatian republic. He later resigned from his post and was appointed to serve as the Socialist Republic of Croatia's membership 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.

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