# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stjepan-mesic
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:42:35.614Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/stjepan-mesic"
name: "Stjepan Mesić"
slug: "stjepan-mesic"
description: "He presided over the death of a country. Stjepan Mesić served as the last president of Yugoslavia in 1991, holding the rotating chair as the federation tore itself apart, then went home to lead the independent Croatia that emerged from the wreckage."
tagline: "2nd President of the Republic of Croatia"
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birthDate: "1934-12-24"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, then vanished from politics for three decades. He returned in 1990, joining the Croatian Democratic Union and becoming prime minister of still-socialist Croatia after the first multi-party elections. He resigned and was appointed to Yugoslavia's federal presidency, serving as vice president and then, in 1991, as president when the state dissolved around him. The role also made him secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement. After independence he was speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1992 to 1994, left HDZ, formed the Croatian Independent Democrats, and later merged it into the Croatian People's Party. When Franjo Tuđman died in December 1999, Mesić won the presidency in February 2000. He served two five-year terms under a system that was reformed mid-tenure from semi-presidential to parliamentary, stripping the office of its power to appoint and dismiss cabinets. He left in 2010 having topped popularity polls throughout.