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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Zlatko Tomčić
- Zlatko Tomcic (Croatian pronunciation: [zlâtko to?mt??it??]; born 10 July 1945) is a Croatian politician, the leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (Hrvatska seljacka stranka—HSS) from 1994 to 2005.
- He served as the President of the Croatian Parliament, as a representative in the Parliament, as well as an acting President of Croatia for a brief period.
- He has graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering.Tomcic became leader of the Croatian Peasant Party in 1994 while serving as a Minister of Construction and Environment in the Croatian Democratic Union-led Cabinet of Nikica Valentic.
- Under his leadership, the Peasant Party led the coalition that came in second in the 1995 elections, winning 18 seats, of which 10 went to members of HSS, including Tomcic. In the 2000 elections the HSS-led coalition came in third, winning 25 seats, of which 17 went to HSS.
- These parties joined with the election winners (SDP-HSLS coalition) to form the government, and Tomcic became the President of the Parliament (Predsjednik Sabora).
- He was instated on 2 February 2000.As the speaker of parliament, Tomcic also briefly served as the acting President of Croatia, as the post was at the time vacant due to the death of President Franjo Tudman in December 1999.
- He gave up the position to the newly elected president Stipe Mesic on 18 February 2000. Tomcic remained President of the Parliament until December 2003, following new elections where the party lost seats and went into the opposition.
- Tomcic did, however, keep a seat in the Parliament.In 2005, the HSS ten-member club in the Parliament split between a group supporting Tomcic and another one insisting on change in leadership.
- In the party election of December 2005, Tomcic was opposed by Josip Frišcic and defeated.
- After defeat he gave up his parliament seat and left politics. As of 2011, Tomcic is the CEO of a successful small architecture firm.
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