Stjepan Mesić

Stjepan Mesić

Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (pronounced [stjêpaːn stǐːpe měːsit͡ɕ]; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), a judge in Našice, and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica. Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, and was then absent from politics until 1990 when he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and was named President of the Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (then still a constituent republic of the SFR Yugoslavia) after HDZ won the elections. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stjepan Mesić has received more than 474,107 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Stjepan Mesić is the 1,497th most popular politician (down from 1,271st in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 19th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Serbian Politician.

Stjepan Mesić is most famous for being the president of Croatia from 2000 to 2010.