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The prime minister of Croatia, officially the president of the government of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Predsjednik / Predsjednica Vlade Republike Hrvatske), is Croatia's head of government, and is de facto the most powerful and influential state officeholder in the Croatian system of government.
Andrej Plenković (pronounced [ǎndreːj plěːŋkoʋitɕ] listen ⓘ; born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian politician serving as the prime minister of Croatia since October 2016. He was previously one of eleven Croatian members of the European Parliament , serving from Croatia's accession to the European Union in 2013 until his resignation as MEP ...
The crisis finally ended on 23 December 2015 when Grabar-Kitarović gave the 30-day mandate to form a government to the non-partisan Croatian-Canadian businessman Tihomir Orešković, who had been selected by HDZ and MOST only hours before the expiration of the President's delegated time frame for the naming of a Prime-Minister-designate.
Since 30 May 1990 (the first multi-party parliamentary election held following the 45-year Communist rule), the Republic of Croatia has had a total of fourteen governments headed by twelve different prime ministers. The prime minister in the first government after the first multi-party election was Stjepan Mesić, who would later go on to ...
was Croatia's fourth-longest serving prime minister – at 4 years, 30 days or 1491 days, and the longest serving non-HDZ prime minister. Tihomir Orešković was Croatia's tenth-longest serving prime minister – at 271 days, and the shortest-serving officeholder during the era of an incomplete parliamentary system (2000–present).
This is a list of cabinets of Croatian government, the chief executive body of the Republic of Croatia.. Note that between 1990 and 2000 Croatia had a semi-presidential system and members of government, including prime ministers, were all directly appointed and removed by the president of Croatia, this post being held by Franjo Tuđman from 1990 to late 1999.
The politics of Croatia are defined by a parliamentary, representative democratic republic framework, where the Prime Minister of Croatia is the head of government in a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Government and the President of Croatia. Legislative power is vested in the Croatian Parliament (Croatian: Sabor).
He became the first presidential candidate in Croatian history to receive more votes than an incumbent officeholder in the first round of an election, the second person in Croatia to defeat an incumbent running for reelection and the first post-independence prime minister of Croatia to be elected head of state.