Nikica Valentić

Nikica Valentić
5th Prime Minister of Croatia
In office April 3, 1993 – November 7, 1995
President	Franjo Tuđman
Preceded by	Hrvoje Šarinić
Succeeded by	Zlatko Mateša
Personal details
Born	December 10, 1950 (1950-24-10) (age 60) Gospić, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party	Croatian Democratic Union

Nikica Valentić (born 1950) is a Croatian politician.

Native of Gospić, Valentić graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law.^[1]

Before being involved in politics, Valentić was a high-ranking official of INA, the Croatian oil company.

On April 4 1993, as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union, he was appointed by President Franjo Tuđman to the post of Croatian prime minister. He served in that position until November 4, 1995.^[2]

A few months after taking office his cabinet de-valued the Croatian currency Croatian dinar, stopping the inflation and bringing some sort of economic stability to Croatia for the first time after the start of war. In June 1994 the Croatian dinar was replaced with the kuna.

In 1995, during his term in office, the Croatian military and police conducted Operation Storm which would ultimately lead to the end of the war in Croatia and neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina.

After his term expired, he served as a member of the Croatian Parliament until 2003.^[3][1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Nikica Valentić, Deputies of the 5th Assembly of the Croatian Parliament
2. ^ "Peta vlada" (in Croatian). Croatian Information-Documentation Referral Agency. http://hidran.hidra.hr/hidrarad/rh/rh65.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-10. 
3. ^ Nikica Valentić: Graditelj stanova u recesijska vremena, Jutarnji list

Persondata
Name	Valentic, Nikica
Alternative names
Short description	Croatian politician
Date of birth	1950-24-10
Place of birth	Gospić, SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death