Ivo Josipović
Ivo Josipović | |
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President of Croatia | |
In office 19 February 2010 – 18 February 2015 | |
Prime Minister | Jadranka Kosor Zoran Milanović |
Preceded by | Stjepan Mesić |
Succeeded by | Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović |
Member of Parliament | |
In office 22 December 2003 – 18 February 2010 | |
Constituency | I electoral district |
President of the Forward Croatia-Progressive Alliance | |
In office 31 May 2015 – 11 April 2019 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Zagreb, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia | 28 August 1957
Political party | Social Democratic Party (1990–1994, 2008–2010, 2019–present) |
Other political affiliations | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1980–1990) Forward Croatia-Progressive Alliance (2015–2019) |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Profession |
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Signature | |
Website | Official website |
Ivo Josipović (pronounced [ǐːʋo josǐːpoʋitɕ] ; born 28 August 1957) is a Croatian academic,[1] jurist,[2] composer, and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.[3][4][5]
Josipović entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), and played a key role in the democratic transformation of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH) into the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the author of its first statute. He left politics in 1994, but returned in 2003, winning a seat in the Croatian Parliament running as an independent candidate on the SDP party list.[6][7] He won re-election to parliament as a member of the SDP in 2007.[7] In addition to politics, Josipović has also worked as a university professor, legal expert, musician and composer, and holds a Ph.D. in Law and advanced degrees in music composition.[8]
Following the end of his first term in Parliament in January 2008, he ran in the
His campaign was titled "Nova pravednost" (New Justice), calling for a new legal framework to address deep social injustice, corruption and organised crime. This included protection of individual rights and promotion of fundamental values such as equality, human rights, LGBT rights, justice, diligence, social empathy and creativity.[9] Josipović was inaugurated on 18 February 2010, at St. Mark's Square in Zagreb. His term officially began at midnight on 19 February.[10]
Josipović sought reelection in the
Biography
Josipović's parents, originally from Baška Voda, a small town near Makarska in Dalmatia, had moved to capital Zagreb in 1956, about a year before he was born.[12] As a high school student, Josipović attended both the V. Gymnasium and a secondary music school in Zagreb from 1972 to 1976.[12] As a teenager he was a promising football player.[13] He is married to Tatjana, a civil law professor and legal expert.[14] They have one daughter, Lana (born c. 1991).[14][15]
Apart from his native Croatian, he speaks English fluently and has some understanding of German.[16]
Law
Josipović attended the
Josipović has been a
Music
After graduating from a secondary music school he enrolled at the Composition Department of the Zagreb Music Academy under the tutelage of renowned scholar Stanko Horvat. He graduated in 1983 majoring in composition.[14] Between 1987 and 2004 Josipović was also a lecturer at the Zagreb Music Academy.[18]
Josipović composed some 50
During the 2010 election campaign Josipović announced that as president he would compose an opera based on the murder of John Lennon.[22] On April 22, 2023 Josipovic’s opera, ‘Lennon’, premiered in Croatia’s National Theatre, built around the last days of the Beatle, the people who were important to him and a psychological profile of his murderer.[23][24]
Film
Josipović was interviewed in Boris Malagurski's documentary film The Weight of Chains 2 (2014). Josipović lent his voice to the third film of the Toy Story series and in a short animated film Night and Day. Josipović at the beginning of the film pronounces the sentence, in Croatian, "Best things in life are unknown, turn to new things".[25] Opening the Pula Film Festival, in 2014, President Josipović called for the audience to enjoy movies and art. "For some, film is the most beautiful and noble fraud, while for some, filmmakers are magicians. Indeed, they put in a big hat under the stars a lot of important spices and most importantly the talent and love for the art", said Josipović.[26]
Politics
In 1980, Josipović became a member of the
Presidential election 2010
After serving two consecutive five-year terms, the incumbent president Stjepan Mesić was not eligible to run in the scheduled 2009 presidential election. On 20 June 2009, Josipović was nominated as one of the official SDP candidates for the 2009–10 Croatian presidential election.[28] He won in a primary against Ljubo Jurčić on 12 July, becoming the party's official candidate.
Josipović based his campaign on the slogan 'Justice for Croatia' and kicked off his campaign with a rally in front of the
On 27 December 2009, Josipović won the first round of the presidential election with 32.42% of the vote. He faced Milan Bandić, an expelled member of the SDP running as an independent, (runner-up with 14.83%) in the second round on 10 January 2010. Subsequently, on 10 January 2010 he was elected as the third president of Croatia with 60.26% of the vote, beating Bandić in the second round.[30]
President of Croatia
In April 2010, Josipović met with the Bosnian Croat Catholic archbishop cardinal
He has chosen a couple of counselors who have caused scandals.[37] Josipović's first option as counselour for rural areas and agriculture was Mato Mlinarić, who was dismissed two hours after being appointed when the press discovered that he had some non-paid tax debts.[38] Former journalist Drago Pilsel served as Josipović's counselor for a month, but left the position after a publishing a column in which he insulted his opponents.[39][40]
In May 2010, Josipović met the leaders of the
Standing in opinion polls
In the year 2010, President Josipović had on average maintained a very high 81% approval rating (according to Ipsos), surpassing the former president Mesić.[48] With ratings reaching as high as 84% in May, August and December[49] in 2010 and 2011, Josipović was ranked as the most popular Croatian politician in the past 20 years (with the possible exception of Franjo Tuđman), since Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia.[50] However, while he remains the most popular Croatian active politician, in the first half of the 2012 his popularity suffered a decline: from ratings of over 80% at the end of 2011 and 84% in February 2012, to 74.2% in March 2012 and 68.8% in April 2012.[51] Also, according to the polls for the 2015 presidential elections, he had a lead of about 10% against the winner of the elections, raising doubts about the methodology of the surveys.[52][53]
Date | Event | Approval (%) |
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27 February 2010 | Inauguration | 78[54] |
25 March 2010 | First month in office | 83[55] |
30 April 2010 | After apologizing in Croatia's name | 84[56] |
25 November 2010 | Serbian president apologizes for Vukovar | 81[57] |
28 January 2012 | Personal High | 88[58] |
25 August 2014 | Personal Low | 68[59] |
Presidential election 2015
President Josipović announced plans to seek re-election in the 2014 presidential election, with his electoral program focusing on amendments to the constitution and the decentralization of Croatia.
The first round of elections took place on 28 December 2014, with Josipović narrowly coming in ahead of his main challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović of the conservative Croatian Democratic Union. Josipović received 38.46% of the vote, which represented 22,000 more votes than Grabar-Kitarović, who was at 37.22%, but both failed to win more than 50% of the vote, leading to a run-off. As the two most voted candidates, Josipović and Grabar-Kitarović proceeded to the second round on 11 January 2015. As the votes were being counted on election night, Grabar-Kitarović was predicted as the winner by media sources, taking 51.4% according to exit polls. However, as official results began to come in, Josipović took an initial lead, but Grabar-Kitarović overtook the incumbent to ultimately win by a margin of only 32,509 votes, even as voting continued to take place in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where problems had arisen due to issues with voting papers. Josipović lost the election by a wafer-thin margin of 1,989 votes if the diaspora vote is not taken into account and he conceded defeat to Grabar-Kitarović, who thus became the first female president-elect of Croatia, later in the evening. His term formally expired at midnight on 19 February 2015, while his successor had already been inaugurated on 15 February.
After having lost his bid for re-election Josipović founded a new political party called Forward Croatia-Progressive Alliance and announced that he planned to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections that were to be held in November 2015. Josipović also refused to have his own office and staff, to which he was entitled for a period of five years after leaving office as president.
Parliamentary election 2015
Josipović's
Parliamentary election 2020
Josipović was a candidate in the 1st electoral district as a member of the
Honours and awards
Award or decoration | Country | Date | Place | |
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Order of Danica Hrvatska for Culture[62] | Croatia | 1999 | ||
Order of the White Rose of Finland[63] | Finland | 2011 | ||
Order of St. Olav[64] | Norway | 12 May 2011 | Zagreb | |
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic[65] | Italy | 6 July 2011 | Zagreb | |
Order of the Three Stars[66] | Latvia | 2 April 2012 | Zagreb | |
Order of the Seraphim[67] | Sweden | 16 April 2013 | Zagreb | |
Order of the Polar Star[68] | Sweden | 16 April 2013 | Zagreb | |
Order of the White Eagle[69] | Poland | 11 May 2013 | Zagreb | |
Order of the Elephant[70][71] | Denmark | 21 October 2014 | Zagreb |
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External links
- Ivo Josipović on Facebook
- Ivo Josipović Main campaign page (in Croatian)
- Ivo Josipović Personal homepage Archived 28 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Croatian)
- Ivo Josipović at the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) official web site (in Croatian)
- Ivo Josipović at the Croatian Composers' Society official web site (in Croatian)
- List of musical works (in Croatian)
- SDP-ovac koji je devet godina izbjegavao Račana (in Croatian)