{"id":8,"date":"2020-02-04T12:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deghq.com\/wordpress\/zoran-milanovic-web-2020\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:06:58","slug":"president","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/president\/","title":{"rendered":"The President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;The well-being of our country largely depends on our willingness to care for one another \u2013 regardless of our differences and disagreements, which, at their core, are not so insurmountable.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/DSC_6112-min.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoran Milanovi\u0107 was born on 30th October 1966 in Zagreb, where he graduated from elementary and high school. He graduated Law at the University of Zagreb and was awarded with the Rector\u2019s Award in 1991. In 1998, he earned a Master\u2019s Degree in European Union Law at the Flemish University in Brussels (V.U.B.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started his professional career as an intern at the Zagreb Commercial Court and in 1993 he joined the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a political advisor to the OSCE peacekeeping mission in Azerbaijan in 1994, and from 1996 to 1999 he serves as an advisor at the Croatian mission to the European Union and NATO in Brussels. In 2003, Zoran Milanovi\u0107 became the Assistant Minister for Political Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2007 he was elected President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, succeeding Ivica Ra\u010dan. In that year, he also served as the President of the National Committee for Monitoring the Accession Negotiations of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union. He became a Member of the Croatian Parliament in 2008. Until 2011, he was the President of the SDP Parliamentary Group and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a leader of the four-party Centre-Left coalition, he won the parliamentary elections in 2011, thus becoming the Prime Minister of the 10th Croatian Government. During his mandate, Croatia became a member of the European Union in 2013. He served as the Prime Minister of Croatia until 2016. After the 2016 early elections, he ended his term as the President of the Social Democratic Party. Later on, he continued his professional career as a consultant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He returned to politics in 2019. He ran for and won the 2019-2020 presidential elections, thus becoming the fifth President of the Republic of Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He ran for a second term and was re-elected President of the Republic of Croatia in the presidential election held in December 2024 and January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been married to Sanja Musi\u0107 Milanovi\u0107 since 1994. 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