Zlatko Tomcic
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Zlatko Tomčić is a Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n politician, former leader of the Croatian Peasant Party
Croatian Peasant Party
The Croatian Peasant Party is a center and socially conservative political party in Croatia.-Austria-Hungary:The Croatian People's Peasant Party was formed on December 22, 1904 by Antun Radić along with his brother Stjepan Radić. The party contested elections for the first time in the Kingdom of...

 (Hrvatska seljačka stranka—HSS) and a representative in the Croatian Parliament.

Political background

After the Peasant Party won the 2000 elections
Croatian parliamentary election, 2000
Elections for the Chamber of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament were held on January 3, 2000. These were the first elections to be held after the expiration of a full term of the previous Chamber....

 in coalition with five other parties, Tomčić became the President of the Parliament (Predsjednik Sabora). He was instated on February 2, 2000.

As the speaker of parliament, he was also serving as the acting President of the Republic, due to the death of President Franjo Tuđman. He gave up the position of acting president on February 18, 2000, when the newly elected president Stipe Mesić took office.

Tomčić remained President of the Parliament until December 2003, following new elections where the party lost seats and went into the opposition. Tomčić did, however, keep a seat in the Parliament.

In 2005, the HSS ten-member club in the Parliament split between a group supporting Tomčić and another one insisting on change in leadership. In the party election of December 2005, Tomčić was opposed by Josip Friščić
Josip Frišcic
Josip Friščić is a Croatian politician and current leader of the Croatian Peasant Party .Friščić joined the party in 1992 and subsequently established many local branches.-References:...

and defeated. After defeat he gave up his parliament seat and left politics.
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