Tomislav Karamarko
Tomislav Karamarko | |
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Leader of the Opposition | |
In office 21 May 2012 – 22 January 2016 | |
Prime Minister | Zoran Milanović |
Preceded by | Jadranka Kosor |
Succeeded by | Zoran Milanović |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 10 October 2008 – 23 December 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Ivo Sanader Jadranka Kosor |
Preceded by | Berislav Rončević |
Succeeded by | Ranko Ostojić |
Member of the Croatian Parliament for the 3rd electoral district | |
In office 22 December 2011 – 22 January 2016 | |
President of the Croatian Democratic Union | |
In office 21 May 2012 – 21 June 2016 | |
Deputy | Drago Prgomet Milijan Brkić |
Preceded by | Jadranka Kosor |
Succeeded by | Andrej Plenković |
Personal details | |
Born | Zadar, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia | 25 May 1959
Political party | Croatian Democratic Union (1989–present) |
Other political affiliations | Patriotic Coalition (2015) |
Spouse(s) |
Enisa Muftić (m. 1993–2011)Ana Šarić (m. 2015) |
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
Website | Official website |
Tomislav Karamarko (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [tǒmislaʋ karamǎːrko]; born 25 May 1959) is a Croatian politician who served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from January to June 2016. He served in the Cabinet of Jadranka Kosor as Minister of the Interior from 2008 to 2011.
Early life
Karamarko was born in
where he finished high school.During his education in high school, Karamarko played guitar and performed in Students' Home, where other popular bands also held concerts, among which Azra, Film, Idoli and others. As a youngster, Karamarko played basketball, and he almost started to join some basketball clubs; however, he chose education instead of sports.[2]
In 1979 he enrolled at the
According to
During his university days Karamarko was known as a shy student who only mingled with students hailing from Dalmatia or Herzegovina. As a twenty-year-old, Karamarko joined the Croatian Catholic Assembly Mi (We). In 1982, Karamarko visited Vatican City with a group of his friends where they waved the Croatian flag.[citation needed] As a result, he was reportedly deprived of a passport by Yugoslavia's authorities.[2] A journalist, Željko Peratović, later disputed that Karamarko was a Catholic dissident, claiming that UDBA had helped him obtain a job in the Croatian State Archives and finish his studies.[6] In the 1980s Karamarko met his future wife, Enisa Muftić, daughter of Osman Muftić, who later briefly served as minister of science in the Cabinet of Stjepan Mesić in 1990.[3]
Career
Karamarko was one of the founders of the
During the
In October 2008 Prime Minister Ivo Sanader named him Minister of the Interior and he remained in that post until December 2011 when HDZ was defeated in the 2011 general election. He acted as an independent minister until September 2011, when he joined HDZ for the second time.[clarification needed] In May 2012 he won the party election and became the fourth president of HDZ, succeeding former Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor.
Political career
He was assigned by
On the recommendation of Vukojević, who was at the time the assistant to Interior Minister and Josip Perković, assistant Defence Minister, on 17 June 1991, Karamarko was named chief of cabinet of Prime Minister Josip Manolić. Karamarko became friends with Stjepan Mesić. Manolić's successor, Franjo Gregurić, left Karamarko as his chief of cabinet.[3]
On 10 September 1992, when the Second Assembly of the Croatian Parliament was formed, Mesić, at the time Speaker of Parliament, named him chief of his cabinet. Karamarko remained Mesić's cabinet chief until 15 June 1993, when he was named chief of police in Zagreb. That year, he married Enisa Muftić.[3]
From 1993 until 1996, Karamarko served as director of Zagreb Police Administration, and from 1996 to 1998 served as Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs. After he ended his career as assistant minister, he became secretary of the
During the
He also served as the head of
Political stances
In May 2015. Karamarko gave the interview to Croatian weekly Globus, after which Croatian media dubbed his new program "The Anti-communist Manifesto" . In it Karamarko advocated for "comprehensive change of general public climate, complete system of values, nullification of communist indoctrination and abolishment of wrong and degenerate interpretation of contemporary history".[11] He criticized his main rivals Social Democratic Party of Croatia, claiming that: "they, as a successor of League of Communists of Croatia, never renounced nor condemned its own totalitarianism." and urged them to: "renounce Josip Broz Tito, totalitarianism and to condemn Tito's crimes."[11]
In January 2018., while commenting recent political events in Croatia on Facebook, Karamarko wrote that his: "political thought is very close to that of Viktor Orban's Christmas message".[12]
President of Croatian Democratic Union
In May 2012., Karamarko was elected president of
Motion of no confidence and government crisis
On May 18, 2016,
After Karamarko's resignation from the place of First Deputy Prime Minister, HDZ decided to run a revenge motion of no confidence against prime minister Orešković[24] The vote took place on 16 June 2016 and it was successful with 125 MPs in favor, 15 against and 2 abstentions, which caused the government to collapse.[25] HDZ then tried to form a new majority in the parliament with no success,[26] despite party members claiming that they have the support of sufficient number MPs.[27] Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarević, therefore decided to schedule the new parliamentary elections for September 2016.[28] As a consequence of failing to form a new majority in the parliament, Karamarko decided to resign from his position of president of Croatian Democratic Union on 21 June 2016.[29] One month later, Andrej Plenković was elected as Karamarko's successor on head of HDZ.[30]
Post resignation
After resignation, Karamarko spent some time traveling around the world and in May 2017. announced that he decided to establish a think-tank organisation - Institute for Security and Prosperity of Croatia.[31] The move which was later mocked by some of his former party members.[32]
References
Notes
- ^ https://zadarski.slobodnadalmacija.hr/zadar/4-kantuna/tomislav-karamarko-na-bleiburg-poveo-sina-djed-iz-kruseva-je-kriznim-putem-pjesacio-do-beograda-436829
- ^ a b c Grubišić, Petar; Knežević, Velinka; Šunjerga, Marina (13 May 2012). "Karamarko: Ne tajim razvod! Kosor: Rado bih se zaljubila, ali..." Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Tomislav Karamarko biografija" (in Croatian). Dnevno.hr. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ Index.hr & 4 June 2015.
- ^ "MANOLIĆ NIJE OKLEVETAO KARAMARKA IZJAVOM DA JE BIO DOUŠNIK UDBE" (in Serbo-Croatian).
- ^ Peratović & 17 May 2013.
- ^ Dnevnik Nove TV. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
- ^ "National Security Office", soa.hr; accessed 1 June 2016.
- ^ "Counterintelligence Agency". soa.hr.
- ^ "Security and Intelligence Agency", soa.hr; accessed 1 June 2016.
- ^ a b "DUHOVNA OBNOVA PO ŠEFU HDZ-a Kako bi Karamarkov antikomunistički manifest izgledao u praksi - Jutarnji List". www.jutarnji.hr. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "Karamarko se vraća u politiku, a agenda mu je bliska Orbanovoj božićnoj poruci; evo što je u njoj". Telegram.hr (in Croatian). 3 January 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
- ^ "HDZ: Karamarko novi predsjednik". Al Jazeera Balkans (in Bosnian). 19 May 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Je li Karamarko nepovratno ideološki raskolio društvo?". jutarnji.hr. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Robi. "HRsvijet.net - Zašto su bivši političari Zoran Milanović i Tomislav Karamarko još uvjek u anketama?". hrsvijet.net (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Brkić ide u bitku za spas HDZ-a" (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Avec la Croatie, un nouveau gouvernement de droite extrême en Europe". Le Huffington Post (in French). 16 February 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "MILIJAN BRKIĆ IPAK NIJE SAM 'HDZ na čelu s Karamarkom ne može dobiti izbore'". Dnevnik.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Domoljubnoj koaliciji 59, Hrvatska raste 56, Most 19, ostalima 9 mandata". Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "TIHOMIR OREŠKOVIĆ NOVI PREMIJER: Ovo je slogan novog predsjednika Vlade RH! (FOTO) | Zagreb.info". Zagreb.info (in Croatian). 23 December 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "HRT: Rat Mosta i HDZ-a zbog suradnje s MOL-om - Karamarko za istragu" (in Croatian). Vijesti.hrt.hr. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "HRT: SDP pokrenuo postupak opoziva Tomislava Karamarka" (in Croatian). Vijesti.hrt.hr. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ Piše: I.Ć., D.I. srijeda, 1.6.2016. 17:35 (6 January 2016). "Prikupljeno dovoljno ruku za smjenu Karamarka, opoziv će podržati i HRID - Vijesti". Index.hr. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "KORAK BLIŽE RUŠENJU PREMIJERA: U dnevni red Sabora uvršten je zahtjev za opozivom Oreškovića". Net.hr (in Croatian). 8 June 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "Pala Vlada Tihomira Oreškovića! Za opoziv premijera glasovalo 125 saborskih zastupnika" (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Robi. "HRsvijet.net - Domagoj Milošević: Podzemni obračuni u HDZ-u idu na ruku Milanoviću". www.hrsvijet.net (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "GLAVNI TAJNIK HDZ-a: 'Imamo dovoljno ruku za preslagivanje i novu Vladu! Tko će biti mandatar reći će vam Karamarko'". Net.hr (in Croatian). 9 June 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "SLUŽBENO JE Predsjednica raspisala prijevremene izbore za 11. rujna 2016". Dnevnik.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "'Ovo je bila šok terapija koja je završila time da se ja po treći put povlačim'". Dnevnik.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ "PETI PREDSJEDNIK HDZ-a Plenković dobio gotovo 98 tisuća glasova!". jutarnji.hr. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Oglasio se Karamarko: Osnovao sam Institut za sigurnost i prosperitet Hrvatske". tportal.hr. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Šeks u saboru napravio show pa se narugao Karamarku: "Neka on s ekipom mozgova dođe do rješenja"". www.index.hr. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
News reports
- "Manolić o šefu HDZ-a: Tomislav Karamarko je radio za Udbu" (in Croatian). Index.hr. 4 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- Peratović, Željko (17 May 2013). "Karamarkova lažirana biografija" (in Croatian). 45 lines. Retrieved 4 June 2015.