Josip Friščić

Josip Friščić
Josip Friščić
President of the Croatian Peasant Party
	In office; 17 December 2005 – 28 January 2012
Preceded by	Zlatko Tomčić
Succeeded by	Branko Hrg
Vice president of Croatian Parliament
	In office; 2008–2011
Prefect of county Koprivnica-Križevci
	In office; 2001–2008
Succeeded by	Darko Koren
Member of Croatian Parliament from 2nd electoral district
	In office; 2008–2012
Personal details
Born	15 August 1949; Subotica Podravska near Rasinja, SFR Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Died	23 January 2016 (aged 66)
Political party	Croatian Peasant Party

Josip Friščić (15 August 1949 – 23 January 2016) was a Croatian politician. He was a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and vice president of Croatian Parliament from 2008.

Friščić joined the party in 1992 and subsequently established many local branches. After many years of active political work, he was elected as president of the party in 2005. His party was crucial to the formation of a center-right government after parliamentary elections in 2007. He resigned in 2012. He was suffering from a rare form of cancer, and died on 23 January 2016.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Biography: Josip Friščić Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Umro Josip Friščić". tportal.hr. Retrieved 2016-01-25.

External links

Media related to Josip Friščić at Wikimedia Commons

Party political offices
Preceded by Zlatko Tomčić	President of Croatian Peasant Party December 2005 – January 2012	Succeeded by Branko Hrg

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[1] Biography: Josip Friščić Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Umro Josip Friščić". tportal.hr. Retrieved 2016-01-25.

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