Ivić Pašalić

Ivić Pašalić (born November 3, 1960 in Šuica , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian politician.

Life

After studying medicine at the University of Zagreb , Pašalić worked as a doctor in Ivanec and Zagreb . 1989/1990 he was one of the founders of the local organizations of the Hrvatska demokratska zajednica ("Croatian Democratic Union") in Varaždin and Ivanec. He quickly rose to become the party's general secretary. In addition, there was his role as domestic policy advisor to the Croatian President Franjo Tuđman . Thanks to his position of power, he was able to form state institutions under the influence of the HDZ. Pašalić did not hide this either and freely stated: “The judiciary has to support national affairs”.

After Tuđman's death and the defeat of the HDZ in the parliamentary elections in 2000, there was an open exchange of blows between the new HDZ chairman Ivo Sanader and Ivić Pašalić. After the most violent internal party dispute since Croatia's independence in 1995, Sanader finally sat down with support and the like. a. by Branimir Glavaš .

After Pašalić Sanader accused illegal means, but this was not confirmed, Pašalić founded the Hrvatski pravaški blok (Croatian bloc). However, after it became clear that this party would not be as popular as the HDZ for a long time, most supporters turned back to the former and the HB remained without a seat in parliament.

Pašalić ran for the 2005 presidential election and came in seventh place.

Beneficiary of the Hypo scandal

According derStandard.at Ivić Pašalić will in September 2003 with Hypo -money around 1.4 million square meters of pasture land in Šimuni on the island of Pag to 4.37 million euros have acquired, he eight weeks later by 37.2 million euros to Hypo Consultants Liechtenstein , a subsidiary of Hypo-Bank , would have sold.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ How Hypo VIP customers helped out. In: derStandard.at. April 9, 2015, accessed December 18, 2017 . 

literature

• Christian Buric: National, ethnic conflict and party identity: a comparative and ideology-critical contribution to the phenomenon of the national in Croatia. New edition, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8311-2754-9 .