Ruža Tomašić

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Ruža Tomašić during a live debate in the European Parliament (2015)

Ruža Tomašić (born May 10, 1958 in Mladoševica near Maglaj , SR Bosnia-Herzegovina , Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian politician ( HKS , formerly HSP , HSP-AS ). She has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2013 .

Life

Ruža Tomašić was born in the Bosnian village of Mladoševica. When she was 15, she emigrated to Canada with her family . She was a motorcycle policeman for the Canadian Police. After a visit by the Croatian President Franjo Tuđman to Vancouver , she became his bodyguard in the early 1990s. She temporarily returned to Canada because of cancer. In 1998 she and her family settled in her husband's homeland on the Croatian Adriatic island of Korčula . Ruža Tomašić has two children.

Political career

From 2003 to 2008 Tomašić was a member of the right-wing extremist party Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP) in the Croatian parliament . In 2009 she founded the Hrvatska stranka prava dr. Ante Starčević (HSP-AS) and won her only mandate in the 2011 parliamentary election . In the run-up to Croatia's membership of the European Union on July 1, 2013, twelve Croatian MEPs were elected to the European Parliament in April 2013 . On the joint list of their party with the conservative Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ) Tomašić received the most and of all candidates the second most votes. The turnout was 20.75 percent. In the European Parliament Tomašić belongs to the ECR group. She left HSP-AS at the beginning of November 2014. In January 2015 she joined the HSP-AS spin-off Hrvatska konzervativna stranka (HKS, Croatian Conservative Party) , which was founded in November 2014, and became its chairman in March 2015.

Political opinions

Tomašić is considered to be nationalist and has been considered an opponent of Europe until the recent past . In the election campaign for the European Parliament, she said, according to press reports from March 2013, regarding the Serbian minority: "Croatia belongs to the Croats, all the others are guests". After clear criticism from then Prime Minister Zoran Milanović , she claimed that she had not said so.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ First EU elections in Croatia - and hardly anyone went to krone.at, April 15, 2013, accessed on April 16, 2013
  2. Ruža Tomašić istupila iz HSP-a AS , Glas Istre online, November 3, 2014
  3. http://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/ruza-tomasic-pristupila-hrvatskoj-konzervativnoj-stranci---368941.html
  4. http://www.vecernji.hr/hrvatska/ruza-tomasic-pristupila-hrvatskoj-konzervativnoj-stranci-984678
  5. http://www.aecr.eu/ruza-tomasic-named-president-of-new-croatian-conservative-party/
  6. Konrad Adenauer Foundation: Dr. Michael A. Lange - Country Report Croatia, April 16, 2013 - European elections in Croatia. Retrieved June 14, 2013 .
  7. europeanvoice.com - Croatia's opposition wins election to European Parliament. Retrieved June 14, 2013 .
  8. Ruža Tomašić: Hrvatska je za Hrvate, ostali su gosti , vecernji.hr March 15, 2013
  9. Milanović: Izjave Ruže Tomašić su društveno zlo - ona je elementarna nepogoda , slobodnadalmacija.hr April 15, 2013; Milanović: Iza nas je razoran rat i agresija , dnevnik.hr March 16, 2013