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Stjepan Mesić
Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić 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 o…
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politics · President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010 · politician · political commissar · lawyer · also Stjepan Mesić, Stjepan Mesiq, Stjepan Mesiç, Mesić
Born 24 December 1934 · Q146496
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2017· 2 entries
Another recording from 1992 was published, with Mesić talking how Jasenovac wasn't a "death camp", denying the nature of the concentration camp, and other statements considered supportive of the Ustaše
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2016· 1 entry
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2015· 1 entry
A court in Hämeenlinna, Finland, sentenced two executives of Finnish company Patria – executive vice president for Croatia Heiki Hulkonen and representative for Croatia Reiji Niittynen – for bribing Croatian officials in
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2009).
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Mesić filed a lawsuit for defamation but it was decided in Petričić's favor on 29 March 2012
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Publicly proposed that all crucifixes be removed from Croatian state offices, provoking a negative reaction from the Catholic Church in Croatia
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2008· 1 entry
Former Constitutional Court judge Vice Vukojević launched a case against Mesić, alleging that he embezzled money along with Vladimir Sokolić under the guise of purchasing vehicles for the Croatian Army in 1993
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2006· 1 entry
Mesić told the Croatian press that Croatian-French lawyer Ivan Jurasinović should visit the psychiatric clinic at Vrapče, after Jurasinović filed charges for Marin Tomulić against Marko Nikolić and others for attempted m
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Rudolf Schuster (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Croatia (2000–2010).
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1997· 2 entries
The majority of HND members, including Mesić, merged into the Croatian People's Party (HNS)
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And a part of the HND membership merged into the liberal Croatian People's Party (HNS), where Mesić became an executive vice-president
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1992· 2 entries
Mesić visited Široki Brijeg in order to dismiss Stjepan Kljujić and install Mate Boban as the president of HDZ BiH, the party's branch in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Career landmark: Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994).
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1991· 3 entries
As the last President of Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia dissolved
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Career landmark: President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991–1991).
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Career landmark: Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991–1991).
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1990· 2 entries
As a candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in the first multi-party elections in Croatia after World War II
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Croatia (1990–1990).
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1975· 1 entry
Was incarcerated for one year and served his sentence at the Stara Gradiška prison
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1967· 3 entries
As mayor, Mesić attempted the building of a private factory in the town, the first private factory in Yugoslavia
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When a group of Croatian nationalists published Declaration on the Status and Name of the Croatian Literary Language, Mesić publicly denounced it as a diversionary attack against the very foundations of Yugoslavia and ca
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Became the mayor of Orahovica and a member of the Parliament of SR Croatia
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1966· 1 entry
Mesić ran as an independent candidate in the election for his municipal council, and defeated two other candidates
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1955· 1 entry
And, as an exemplary student, was admitted to the League of Communists of Yugoslavia
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1949· 1 entry
His father was reassigned back to Orahovica, and Stipe continued his education at the gymnasium in Požega
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1945· 1 entry
The family took refuge from the final fighting of the war in Hungary, along with 10,000 other refugees, and subsequently settled in Našice, where Josip Mesić became the chairman of the District Council
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1936· 1 entry
His older sister Marija was sent to their uncle Tomo Pernar in France, while Stjepan was put in the care of his grandmother Marija until his father was remarried in 1938 to Mileva Jović, an ethnic Serb who gave birth to
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-12-24.
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