- Hrvoje Šarinić
Infobox_President | name=Hrvoje Šarinić
order=4thPrime Minister of Croatia
term_start=August 12 ,1992
term_end=April 3 ,1993
president=Franjo Tuđman
predecessor=Franjo Gregurić
successor=Nikica Valentić
birth_date=Birth date and age|1935|02|17|mf=y
birth_place=Sušak ,Kingdom of Yugoslavia
dead=alive
death_date=
death_place=
spouse=
party=Croatian Democratic Union
vicepresident=Hrvoje Šarinić (born
March 17 ,1935 ) is aCroatia n politician.Before the first democratic elections in Croatia, Šarinić had a business career in Paris, France. He is a dual citizen of both Croatia and of France. After the elections he joined the government of
Franjo Tudjman and became head of his personal office.After the parliamentary elections of 1992 he, as member of
Croatian Democratic Union , was appointed to the post of prime minister.His cabinet, like all in Tudjman years, was less concerned with foreign policy and war and more with domestic issues. One of those issues was privatisation of state-owned companies. During his time many of the most controversial events of that process took place, including the now infamous takeover of
Slobodna Dalmacija in early 1993.By that time Croatian economy continued to decline, Šarinić himself became immensely unpopular and even his native
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County rejected HDZ at local elections in February 1993. All that, together with escalating war inBosnia-Herzegovina , led Tudjman to replace him withNikica Valentić .Šarinić was not demoted, however. He continued to serve as Tudjman's close advisor and was, for a while, head of Croatian security services.
He remained in public spotlight because of his diplomatic missions and frequent negotiations with
Slobodan Milošević . After one of those missions he created great deal of controversy by claiming that one of the results of former Yugoslav wars should be "little Greater Serbia".By the end of 1990s, he was gradually pushed from Tudjman's inner circle.
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