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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Zoran Milanović
- Zoran Milanovic (pronounced [zoran milano?it?; mila?n-]; born 30 October 1966) is a Croatian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Croatia from December 2011 to January 2016.
- He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the largest centre-left political party in Croatia, from 2007 until November 2016.
- He served as Leader of the Opposition on two separate occasions, from 2007 to 2011 and from January to November 2016, when Davor Bernardic succeeded him as SDP chairman. After graduating from the Zagreb Faculty of Law, Milanovic started working in the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- He served as an advisor at the Croatian Mission to the European Union and NATO in Brussels from 1996–99.
- That same year he joined the Social Democratic Party.
- In 1998 he earned his master's degree in European Union law at the Flemish University in Brussels and was an assistant to the Foreign Minister of Croatia for political multilateral affairs in 2003. In June 2007 he was elected President of the SDP, following the death of the longtime leader and former Prime Minister Ivica Racan.
- In the 2007 parliamentary election, the party came in second and were unable to form a governing majority.
- Despite losing the election, he was reelected party leader in 2008.
- In 2011, Milanovic initiated the formation of the Kukuriku coalition, uniting four centre to centre-left political parties.
- The coalition won an absolute majority in the 2011 parliamentary election, with SDP itself becoming the strongest party in the Parliament.
- Milanovic became Prime Minister on 23 December 2011, after the Parliament approved his cabinet. The beginning of his prime ministership was marked with finishing the ratification process of Croatia's entry to the European Union and holding an EU membership referendum.
- His cabinet introduced changes to the tax code, passed a fiscalization law, and started several large infrastructure projects.
- After the increase in the value of the Swiss franc, the government announced that all Swiss franc loans will be converted into euros.
- Milanovic supported the expansion of same-sex couples rights and introduced the Life Partnership Act. Following the 2015 election, he was succeeded as Prime Minister by Tihomir Oreškovic.
- Milanovic led the four-party People's Coalition in the early parliamentary election in September 2016.
- Following a surprise defeat in the election to the HDZ, Milanovic announced his withdrawal from politics.
- He then entered the consulting business and worked as an advisor to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. On 17 June 2019, Milanovic announced that he will be running for President of Croatia as the SDP's candidate in the upcoming election.
- He was officially nominated to be the party's candidate on 6 July 2019.
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