Tihomir Orešković

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Tihomir Orešković (2016)

Tihomir Orešković (born January 1, 1966 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian - Canadian manager and politician . From January to October 2016 he was Prime Minister of Croatia .

Life and professional history

A year and a half after his birth, Orešković's parents emigrated to Ontario , Canada , where he studied chemistry at McMaster University and obtained a Master of Business Administration there in 1991 . He worked in Eli Lilly's finance department from 1992 and later moved to Novopharm in Canada, which is now part of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries . When the Israeli company bought the Croatian drug manufacturer Pliva in 2008 , he was division manager for Eastern Europe ; now he became CEO of Pliva. From 2014 Orešković was Teva Head of Europe and the Middle East and lived with his family in Amsterdam.

politics

Prime Minister of Croatia

On December 23, 2015, the electoral alliance Bridge Independent Lists ( MOST ) and the homeland-loving coalition led by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) nominated the non-party Orešković as Prime Minister. They submitted the signatures of 78 members of the 151-seat parliament. President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović commissioned Orešković to form a government on the same day. On January 22nd, 2016, parliament approved the new government. It had previously become known that Orešković was to be the finance minister in a cabinet under the HDZ chairman Tomislav Karamarko , provided that he would have become prime minister.

From the outset, criticized the appointment of some politicians that was right - nationalist positions represented in the government. Veterans Minister Mijo Crnoja , who had announced that he would create a register of people he saw as “traitors to the national interest”, resigned on January 28, 2016 after only 6 days in office. He suffered in particular rumors about a controversial real estate deal and opaque lending. The appointment of the new minister Tomislav Medved took place on March 21, 2016. Culture minister Zlatko Hasanbegović was accused of waging a “culture war from the right” by, for example, playing down the work of the historical fascist Ustasha movement and the controversial state co-financing of celebrations on the occasion of the Bleiburg massacre , politically unpopular cultural and media projects cut or cut funding and propagate more patriotism in schools and on television. This prompted President Grabar-Kitarović to warn against questioning the anti-fascist foundation of the state. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights , Nils Muižnieks , saw social cohesion and pluralism in the country as threatened.

On March 21, 2016, the state budget for 2016 was approved by parliament. The government forecast a deficit of less than 3%, economic growth of 2% and a reduction in national debt from 86.9% to 86.8% of the gross domestic product . The goal for 2018 is to reduce this value to 84.7%. In April 2016, the International Monetary Fund corrected its forecast for the country's economic growth for 2016 from the original 1% to 1.9%.

In June 2016, Orešković, Economy Minister Tomislav Panenić and representatives of the natural gas and oil companies INA and Vermilion Energy signed a contract for the development and production of hydrocarbon deposits in the Slavonia counties worth 88 million euros. In the case of profitable funding, an annual income of between 600 and 900 million euros can be expected for the state budget. Orešković also announced the construction of a gas terminal for liquefied natural gas on the island of Krk and the tendering of infrastructure projects such as a railway line from Križevci to Dugo Selo and the Pelješac bridge . The legal basis for their profit was changed: no longer the cheapest, but the economically favorable offer should come into play.

Government crisis and voting out

At the end of May 2016, the opposition Social Democratic Party initiated impeachment proceedings against Karamarko, who had received the post of one of the two vice-prime ministers in the government. The background to this was allegations of corruption in connection with the sale of shares in the state-owned mineral oil company INA to the Hungarian competitor MOL, which the HDZ had advocated . According to a media report, his wife Ana Šarić-Karamarko is said to have received 60,000 euros from MOL for advisory activities. The coalition partner MOST announced that it would support the proceedings against Karamarko. In return, the HDZ described MOST as incompetent and called on its party chairman Božo Petrov , also Vice Premier, to resign. After Orešković asked both Karamarko and Petrov to resign from office, Karamarkos HDZ withdrew his trust on June 3, 2016.

On June 15, 2016 Karamarko announced his resignation. On June 16, the HDZ initiated a vote of no confidence in Orešković. 125 of the 151 MPs voted for his removal.

Private & Trivia

Orešković is married and has four children. Despite his Croatian origins, he does not speak Croatian well, which resulted in multiple criticism when he was appointed Prime Minister.

In an interview for Croatian State Television (HRT) about the attitude to work in Croatian politics, Orešković said: "I came from a large company where there was a lot of work and little talk. When I became Prime Minister of the Croatian government, I realized that here only talked and little worked. "

After Orešković was voted out of office in June 2016, he made the following statement on RTL Croatia due to the multiple polemics about himself and criticism of his origin from the Canadian diaspora: I don't know what a Croat is in my head - I'm a Croat in my heart!

Web links

Commons : Tihomir Orešković  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register announcement November 3, 2014, change, HRB 726775, Ulm ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.firmenwissen.de
  2. ^ Tihomir Orešković to Be Named as Croatian Prime Minister-Designate. In: Total Croatia News. December 23, 2015, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  3. ↑ New appointments in PLIVA. Pliva , July 11, 2014, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Non- party becomes the new head of government in Croatia. In: Zeit Online . December 23, 2015, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  5. ^ Meet Croatia's New PM Designate, Tihomir Orešković. In: Total Croatia News. December 23, 2015, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Parliament approves new government. In: Zeit Online . January 23, 2016, accessed January 31, 2016 .
  7. ^ Adelheid Wölfel: Croatia has a new government Der Standard, January 21, 2016, accessed on June 17, 2016
  8. ↑ Erich Rathfelder: A Bad Start TAZ, January 21, 2016, accessed on June 17, 2016
  9. ↑ Adelheid Wölfel: Accession to government with holy water and savings pen in Croatia Der Standard, January 26, 2016, accessed on June 17, 2016
  10. ^ Croatia: Minister resigns after six days in office. Spiegel Online, January 29, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016
  11. ^ Vedran Pavlic: Tomislav Medved is the New Veterans Affairs Minister. Total Croatia News, March 15, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  12. ↑ Keno Verseck: Croatia's nationalism: The fear of the next Hungary Spiegel Online, May 3, 2016, accessed on June 17, 2016
  13. ^ Government adopts draft 2016 budget. EBL News, March 10, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  14. ↑ Parliament adopts 2016 state budget. EBL News, March 21, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  15. ^ Vedran Pavlic: IMF Nearly Doubles Estimate of Croatia's GDP Growth. Total Croatia News, April 12, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  16. ↑ Government steps up preparations for LNG terminal. EBL News, June 10, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  17. ^ Contracts signed with INA, Vermilion Energy on onshore hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation. EBL News, June 10, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  18. ^ Adelheid Wölfl: Croatia's government is walking on thin ice. Der Standard, May 30, 2016, accessed June 5, 2016
  19. ^ Crisis in Croatia: Government on the brink of collapse Spiegel Online, June 3, 2016, accessed June 5, 2016
  20. ^ Adelheid Wölfl: Croatia's Vice Prime Minister Karamarko resigns. Der Standard, June 15, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016
  21. ^ Adelheid Wölfl: Croatian Parliament deposed Prime Minister. Der Standard, June 16, 2016, accessed the same day.
  22. ↑ Croatia and the HDZ to Karamarko - how it could go on. In: derStandard.at. June 16, 2016, accessed December 10, 2017 .
  23. ↑ http://www.kosmo.at/premier-kann-kein-kroatisch-video/
  24. ↑ http://vijesti.hrt.hr/345157/oreskovic-shvatio-sam-da-se-ovdje-vise-prica-nego-radi
  25. ↑ http://www.vijesti.rtl.hr/novosti/hrvatska/1949795/prvi-intervju-tihomira-oreskovica-nakon-pada-vlade-ne-znam-sto-je-to-hrvat-u-glavi-ja -sam-hrvat-u-srcu /
personal data
SURNAME Orešković, Tihomir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orešković, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb