ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic was born in the eastern Croatian town of Orahovica on 24 December 1934. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Zagreb University. He is married with two children. Mesic has
two grandchildren as well.
ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic was born
in the eastern Croatian town of Orahovica on 24 December 1934.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Zagreb University. He is
married with two children. Mesic has two grandchildren as well.#L#
Mesic was a prominent student leader and a deputy to the Sabor of the
then Socialist Republic of Croatia.
After taking part in the 1971 Croatian Spring movement he was jailed
for one year in the notorious Stara Gradiska prison.
In 1990, he became the Secretary of the Croatian Democratic Union
(HDZ) and the Prime Minister of the first Government of the Republic
of Croatia.
Under a decision of the Croatian Parliament (Sabor), Mesic became a
member of the then collective Presidency of the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), and was the President of that
Presidency until 5 December 1991 when he resigned from that duty.
Until the second elections in Croatia since the country won
independence, he was the HDZ executive committee's chairman, and
elected as President of the Croatian National Sabor in 1992.
Being unsatisfied with the policy of the HDZ party, he left it in
1994 and set up the political party called Croatian Independent
Democrats (HND). He was dismissed from the office of the Sabor
President.
In 1997 Mesic and a part of the HND membership joined the Croatian
People's Party (HNS) and he was the HNS executive vice president
until last Tuesday when he was relieved of duties in the political
party following his election as Croatia's President
He possesses a family flat and garage in Zagreb and has his car -
Golf.
(hina) ms