Miroslav Rožić, Date of Birth

    

Miroslav Rožić

Croatian politician

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1956

Profession: politician

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Miroslav Rožić

  • Miroslav Rožic (born August 31, 1956) is a Croatian right-wing politician.
  • As a former vice-president of Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), he served as a representative in Croatian Parliament between 2001 and 2007.
  • He was previously a member of the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and is currently a member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS). Rožic was born in Zagreb, as a fourth generation Agramer.
  • His family was very well-to-do before the communists nationalised their property in 1945.
  • His father was considered to be an Ustasha sympathizer and bourgeois, so in socialist Yugoslavia he had to accept jobs he was over-qualified for. Rožic obtained a degree in biology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at the University of Zagreb and pursued a scientific career.
  • He planned to defend his doctoral dissertation in 1991 when war erupted in Croatia.
  • Rožic joined the Croatian Army where he served as a translator, due to his fluent use of English, German and Italian. He was also a member of Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), and in 1993 he was elected to Zagreb city council.
  • In 1995, Rožic and his close friend Tonci Tadic left HSLS because of conflicts with party's president Dražen Budiša and party's positioning on the centre-left part of the political spectrum.
  • The same year they joined the HSP. In 1997, Rožic was elected to the now non-existing upper house of Croatian Parliament.
  • He and Tadic became major figures in HSP and refreshed party's image.
  • Rožic became a party leader in Zagreb and ran for mayor in 2005, finishing solid third.
  • In September 2007, after a spat with Anto Ðapic, both Rožic and Tadic left HSP.In October 2009, Rožic joined the Zagreb branch of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS).

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