Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I

Ivo Sanader

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The first Cabinet of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was the Croatian Government cabinet announced on 23 December 2003. It was the 9th cabinet of Croatia, and its term ended on 12 January 2008. All but two cabinet members came from the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, following their win in the 2003 parliamentary elections (with the exception of Dragan Primorac, who was formally a non-party minister at the time of his appointment, but later joined HDZ and Vesna Škare-Ožbolt who had been a member of HDZ in the 1990s but then joined the Democratic Centre, a small centre-right party which allied with HDZ for the 2003 elections).

Changes from Cabinet of Ivica Račan II

Since Račan's centre-left coalition was replaced by the centre-right HDZ government, all the ministers were newly appointed. Furthermore, some ministries were re-organised:

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare was dissolved; it was then merged into Ministry of Health (which then became Ministry of Health and Social Welfare) and Ministry of Economy.
• Ministry for Crafts, Small and Medium-sized enterpreneurship was also dissolved and merged with the Ministry of Economy, which then became Ministry of Economy, Labour and Enterpreneurship
• Ministry of Agriculture and Forest Management was renamed Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Water Management
• Ministry of Veterans' Affairs was renamed and expanded into Minister of Family, Veterans' Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity
• Ministry of Tourism was dissolved and merged with Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications to form the new Ministry of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development
• Ministry of Justice, Public Administration and Local Self-government was renamed simply Ministry of Justice
• Minister of Public Works, Construction and Reconstruction was dissolved, and merged with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning to form the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction
• Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Education and Sports were merged into Ministry of Science, Education and Sports

These changes had brought down the number of ministries from 19 in Račan's cabinet to 14 under PM Sanader. Also, the ministries of European Integration (headed by Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović) and Foreign Affairs (headed by Miomir Žužul) were later merged in February 2005, which further reduced the total number of government ministries to just 13.

List of ministers and portfolios

Some periods in the table extend after before 12 January 2008 because the minister continued to hold the post in the following Cabinet of Ivo Sanader II and Cabinet of Jadranka Kosor. The cabinet had two Deputy Prime Ministers: Jadranka Kosor and Andrija Hebrang, who both also served as ministers of their respective portfolios. When Hebrang resigned from both his posts as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Welfare in February 2005, he was replaced by Damir Polančec (as Deputy Prime Minister) and Neven Ljubičić (who took over his portfolio).

Minister	Party	Portfolio	Period
Ivo Sanader	HDZ	Prime Minister	23 December 2003 – 6 July 2009
Damir Polančec	HDZ	Deputy Prime Minister	17 February 2005 – 12 January 2008
Andrija Hebrang	HDZ	Minister of Health and Social Welfare	23 December 2003 – 15 February 2005
Neven Ljubičić	HDZ		16 February 2005 – 12 January 2008
Ivan Šuker	HDZ	Minister of Finance	23 December 2003 –
Božo Biškupić	HDZ	Minister of Culture	23 December 2003 –
Petar Čobanković	HDZ	Minister of Agriculture, Forest and Water Management	23 December 2003 – 12 January 2008
Jadranka Kosor	HDZ	Minister of Family, Veterans' Affairs and Intergenerational Solidarity	23 December 2003 – 6 July 2009
Miomir Žužul	HDZ	Minister of Foreign Affairs	17 February 2005 – 16 February 2005
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović	HDZ	Minister of European Integration	23 December 2003 – 16 February 2005
		Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration	17 February 2005 – 12 January 2008
Božidar Kalmeta	HDZ	Minister of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development	23 December 2003 –
Berislav Rončević	HDZ	Minister of Defence	23 December 2003 – 12 January 2008
Vesna Škare-Ožbolt	DC	Minister of Justice	23 December 2003 – 9 February 2006
Ana Lovrin	HDZ		10 February 2006 –10 October 2008
Marina Matulović-Dropulić	HDZ	Minister of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction	23 December 2003 –
Dragan Primorac	Non-party	Minister of Science, Education and Sports	23 December 2003 – 2 July 2009
Marijan Mlinarić	HDZ	Minister of the Interior	23 December 2003 – 12 July 2005
Ivica Kirin	HDZ		12 July 2005 – 2 January 2008
Branko Vukelić	HDZ	Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship	23 December 2003 – 12 January 2008

References

External links

• Official website of the Croatian Government
• Chronology of Croatian cabinets at Hidra.hr (Croatian)