Vlasta Pavić

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Vlasta Pavić is a former mayor of Zagreb and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP).

She was elected mayor of Zagreb on March 1, 2002^[1] after Milan Bandić (also a member of the SDP) was forced to resign.^[2] Bandić clearly had expected her to simply let him run Zagreb much as before. Though Bandić retained firm control of the Zagreb party machine Pavić attempted to be a mayor in her own right. This led to a somewhat stormy relationship with Bandić and she was very soon publicly accusing him of treating Zagreb as his personal property.^[3]

Bandić worked to obtain early elections. He succeeded and Vlasta Pavić's mayoral term ended in May 2005 upon re-election of Bandić.^{[citation needed]}