2nd President of the Republic of Croatia
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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.
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…
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If the current division of Bosnia Herzegovina into two entities does not function, it will not function with divisions into three entities.
The Croatian parliament elected me to be the Croatian member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia.
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