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The president is the holder of the highest office in Croatia. However, the president is not the head of the executive branch ("non executive president") as Croatia has a parliamentary system in which the holder of the post of prime minister is the most powerful person within the country's constitutional framework and everyday politics.
The head of government was renamed to the President of the Executive Council in 1952. Notably, Savka Dabčević-Kučar was the first woman (not only in Croatia, but in Europe) to hold an office equivalent to a head of government as Chairman of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia (1967–1969).
In semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the head of government (i.e. executive) role is fulfilled by the listed head of government and the head of state. In one-party states , the ruling party 's leader (e.g. the General Secretary ) is usually the de facto top leader of the state, though sometimes this leader also holds the presidency ...
The Croatian parliament on Friday approved a government dominated by the conservative pro-European HDZ party, led by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, marking his third term in the job following a ...
The term "government" in Croatia (Vlada) primarily refers to the executive branch, as used by the government itself, the press and colloquially, as that branch of the government (vlast) is responsible for day-to-day governance of the nation (uprava); this sense is intended when it is said that a political party forms the government.
16th Cabinet of the Republic of Croatia: 2024–present: Date formed: 17 May 2024 () People and organisations; Head of state: Zoran Milanović: Head of government: Andrej Plenković: Deputy head of government: Ivan Anušić (2024–) Branko Bačić (2024-) Oleg Butković (2024–) Josip Dabro (2024–2025) Tomo Medved (2024–) Marko Primorac ...
15th Cabinet of the Republic of Croatia: 2020–2024: Date formed: 23 July 2020 () Date dissolved: 17 May 2024 () People and organisations; Head of state: Zoran Milanović: Head of government: Andrej Plenković: Deputy head of government: Tomo Medved (2020–2024) Davor Božinović (2019–2024) Zdravko Marić (2020–2022)
Croatia's general government recorded a surplus of €424.5 million in 2017 or 0.9% of GDP, attributed to an increase in income from taxes related to manufacturing and imports, and a reduction in interest payments. The debt-to-GDP ratio decreased by 2.7 percentage points from 2016, to 77.5%, and GDP growth was 2.9%. [39]