Mirela Holy

Mirela Holy
Minister of Environmental Protection and Nature
In office 23 December 2011 – 13 June 2012
Prime Minister	Zoran Milanović
Preceded by	Ministry created
Succeeded by	Mihael Zmajlović
Personal details
Born	(1971-12-15) 15 December 1971 Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croat
Political party	Croatian Sustainable Development (ORaH)
Alma mater	University of Zagreb

Mirela Holy (born 15 December 1971) is a Croatian politician and a leader of the centre-left Croatian Sustainable Development party (ORaH).

Education

Holy had studied philosophy at the University of Zagreb and received her PhD in humanities in 2005.

Minister of Environmental Protection and resignation details

From 23 December 2011 until 13 June 2012 Holy was Minister of Environmental Protection and Nature in the centre left Government of Zoran Milanović. She resigned her position on 6 June 2012 after happening of the outcry of some part of the public over an email in which she asked manager of the HŽ Holding to consider the possibility of not firing his secretary, because she was an elderly woman with more than 15 years of experience, and was working in HŽ Holding for less than a month.^[1] Mihael Zmajlović succeeded her as minister.

ORaH establishment

In 2013 she left the Social Democratic Party due to her public disagreement with the party's environmental policy. After her departure from SDP, Holy founded a new party called ORaH (ORaH means walnut in Croatian) which stands for Održivi razvoj Hrvatske (Croatian Sustainable Development).^[2]

Activism

She is one of the most recognizable Croatian female politicians and a notable supporter of LGBT and women's rights.^[3][4]

Private life

Ms. Holy has been in a 15-year-long cohabitation with Croatian photographer Siniša Bužan. The couple has no plans to get married. ^[5]

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