Josip Manolić

Speaker of the Chamber of Counties of Croatia

22 March 1920 Kalinovac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

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22 March 1993 – 23 May 1994

Croatian politician Josip "Joža" Manolić (pronounced  ; born 22 March 1920) is a Croatian former politician and communist revolutionary during World War II in Yugoslavia. He served as a high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Administration (OZNA or UDBA), and later as Prime Minister of Croatia from 24 August 1990 to 17 July 1991. Croatia formally declared independence during his term, on 25 June 1991. Following his brief term as Prime Minister, he served as the first Speaker of the Chamber of Counties, the upper house of the Croatian Parliament, from 1993 until 1994.