Vlatko Pavletić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian politician
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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Vlatko Pavletić
- Vlatko Pavletic (pronounced [?lâtko pa?letit??]; 2 December 1930 – 19 September 2007) was a Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist. Pavletic was born in Zagreb in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- In 1955, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he majored in Croatian language and literature.
- In 1972 he was imprisoned for a year and a half by the communist Yugoslav government as a Croatian nationalist for "attempting to destroy and change the state organization".
- He earned a doctorate in 1975.
- Between 1990 and 1992 Pavletic served as Minister of Education, Culture, Technology and Sports under Prime Ministers Stjepan Mesic, Josip Manolic and Franjo Greguric.
- In 1992, he was elected to the Croatian parliament and was appointed Speaker of the Parliament on 28 November 1995.
- He held the post until 2000. When President Franjo Tudman was declared incapacitated on 26 November 1999, he automatically became Acting President of Croatia.
- He held this office from Tudman's death on 10 December 1999 until the Croatian parliament elected Zlatko Tomcic as the new Speaker (and thus the new acting president) on 2 February 2000.
- In 2004, Pavletic retired from politics.
- He died in Zagreb from pancreatic cancer on 19 September 2007.
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