Nikica Valentić
Nikica Valentić | |
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5th[a] Prime Minister of Croatia | |
In office April 3, 1993 – November 7, 1995 | |
President | Franjo Tuđman |
Preceded by | Hrvoje Šarinić |
Succeeded by | Zlatko Mateša |
Personal details | |
Born | Gospić, SFR Yugoslavia | December 10, 1950
Political party | Croatian Democratic Union |
^a Counting from the 1990 Croatian parliamentary election. 17th Croatian prime minister overall. | |
Nikica Valentić (born November 24, 1950) is a Croatian politician.
Native of Gospić, Valentić graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law.[1]
Before being involved in politics, Valentić was a high-ranking official of INA, the Croatian oil company.
On April 4, 1993, as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union, he was appointed by President Franjo Tuđman to the post of Croatian prime minister. He served in that position until November 4, 1995.[2]
A few months after taking office his cabinet de-valued the Croatian currency Croatian dinar, stopping the inflation and bringing some sort of economic stability to Croatia for the first time after the start of war. In June 1994 the Croatian dinar was replaced with the kuna.
In 1995, during his term in office, the Croatian military and police conducted Operation Storm which would ultimately lead to the end of the war in Croatia and neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina.
After his term expired, he served as a member of the Croatian Parliament until 2003.[1][3]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nikica Valentić, Deputies of the 5th Assembly of the Croatian Parliament
- ↑ "Peta vlada" (in Croatian). Croatian Information-Documentation Referral Agency. Retrieved 2010-12-10.
- ↑ Nikica Valentić: Graditelj stanova u recesijska vremena, Jutarnji list
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