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22-557: Presidents of several coalition party members stated in 2016 that communication among coalition members is bad, with some expressing dissatisfaction with Governments' announced reforms. On June 16, 2016, Coalition supported Cabinet of Tihomir Orešković lost a motion of no confidence in the Croatian Parliament , which was followed by the Parliament's self-dissolution on June 20, 2016 which triggered early election that

44-563: A new government took office after the 2016 election . It was the first Croatian cabinet to be headed by a non-partisan Prime Minister , as well as having the largest number on non-partisan ministers (5). The remaining cabinet members came from two parties: the Croatian Democratic Union and Bridge of Independent Lists . The Orešković cabinet was dubbed " Tim's Team " by the Croatian media. The first change in

66-482: A corruption scandal involving former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in 2009. MOST leader and Deputy Prime Minister Božo Petrov stated on 26 May 2016 that his party would vote in favor of Karamarko's removal from office, thereby raising the possibility of the government falling and this resulting in early elections or the installment of a new parliamentary majority by the opposition. The motion of no confidence in Karamarko

88-598: A majority. It was provided primarily by the HDZ's junior partners in the Patriotic Coalition ( HSP-AS , HSLS , HSS , HRAST , HDS and BUZ ), but also by a number of independents , national minority Members of Parliament and those representing other smaller parties ( HDSSB , BM 365 and NS-R ). Parliamentary seats held by parties in government only (22 January 2016): Party breakdown of cabinet ministers: Tomo Medved Tomo Medved (born 17 March 1968)

110-542: A press conference, and the Croatian Parliament confirmed him at the constituent session on 21 March 2016, with 88 votes of support. He had two brothers and five sisters. Both brothers, the older Milan and the younger Ivan, were volunteers during the Croatian War of Independence. Milan was killed in the last days of the war during Operation Storm . Ivan is an active military person in the Armed Forces. Medved

132-533: Is a Croatian politician and retired brigadier general of the Croatian Army who serves as Minister of Croatian Veterans since 2016 and as Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia since 2020. Medved was born in Šiljkovača in the municipality of Cetingrad . He graduated from high school in mechanical engineering and worked at Croatian Railways . By professional training, Medved has a professional bachelor's degree, completed business economics and finance at

154-486: The Cabinet of Zoran Milanović , became interim minister, creating the situation where a member of the opposition centre-left Social Democratic Party held office in a government led by the centre-right. Furthermore, the ministerial post remained vacant for almost two months due to the coalition parties failing to agree on a mutual candidate. At the end of a lengthy negotiation process they finally agreed on Tomo Medved of

176-934: The Defense Language Institute in the United States. He was awarded a number of state awards, such as the Order of Duke Domagoj , the Order of the Croatian Cross , the Order of the Croatian Trefoil , the Homeland's Gratitude Medal for 5 and 10 years, and the Medal for Participation in Operation Summer '95 . On 15 March 2016 then prime minister Tihomir Orešković presented him as the new Minister of Croatian Veterans at

198-714: The Baltazar University of Applied Science in Zaprešić , and speaks English. In November 1990 he volunteered at the 1st Guards Brigade of the MUP in Rakitje . The following year, he was appointed as a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Guards Brigade, and later as a company commander. He was wounded three times. The first time, at the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence , on 16 August 1991, on

220-699: The Coalition. The coalition consisted of ten parties: Early versions of the coalition participated in a joint list for elections to the European Parliament in 2013 and 2014. Cabinet of Tihomir Ore%C5%A1kovi%C4%87 Recent referendums The Thirteenth Government of the Republic of Croatia ( Croatian : Trinaesta Vlada Republike Hrvatske ) was the Croatian Government cabinet led by Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković . It

242-886: The Croatian War of Independence he held high positions in the Armed Forces , and in July 2006, he assumed the position of adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces for the Ground Army . He was the head of the Directorate for Personnel Affairs of the General Staff . He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 2009. He retired at his own request in 2011. He graduated from the Blago Zadro Command and Staff School, Ban Josip Jelačić War School, and

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264-402: The HDZ as Crnoja's successor and the new minister. The first 100 days the cabinet had been marked by constant disagreements and feuds within the ruling Patriotic Coalition - MOST coalition. Namely, many of the smaller parties of the Patriotic Coalition had expressed dissatisfaction with the ineffectiveness of the government, as well as the mutual blocking mechanism present between members of

286-484: The Patriotic Coalition and MOST, and the increasing rivalry between the chairmen of these parties, Tomislav Karamarko and Božo Petrov . In this way MOST had been accused of presenting an ″opposition within the government″ and was seen as slow to make decisions on mutual proposals because of its inability to reach a consensus among its own members. The pace of promised reforms was also stained and slowed by

308-644: The Prime Minister and his two Deputies agreed to lend their support to Crnoja's case and his claimed innocence in the affair, however Crnoja himself tended his resignation stating that he did not wish to be a burden on the new government. He became the only member of Orešković's cabinet to have never attended a cabinet meeting and also made history as the shortest-ever serving member of a post-independence cabinet in Croatia. After his resignation, Vesna Nađ , who had served as Deputy Minister of Veterans' Affairs in

330-636: The Western Slavonic battlefield, when he was hit by a shrapnel shell in the lungs during the battle. The second time was in October 1991 in Pokupsko , when he received a gunshot wound to the upper arm. They say he considered this a scratch and did not want to leave his comrades at any cost. The third time, in June 1992, he was hit by shrapnel near the spine in the hinterland of Dubrovnik . After

352-518: The cabinet's make-up occurred just 6 days into its term when Minister of Veterans' Affairs Mijo Crnoja resigned on 28 January 2016 over a controversy involving him listing an abandoned wooden structure in Samobor as his place of residence while in reality living in Zagreb. He had done so in order to pay a lower surtax. After holding lengthy meetings behind closed doors during a period of several days,

374-624: The coalition parties. On 18 May 2016, the opposition Social Democratic Party initiated a motion of no confidence in Tomislav Karamarko after the Nacional weekly magazine published secret contracts revealing the business-related cooperation of his wife Ana Šarić and Josip Petrović, the special adviser and lobbyist of the MOL Group , a Hungarian oil corporation that gained control of Croatia's national oil company, INA , through

396-399: The feud within the ruling coalition, as well as the Prime Minister's seemingly subordinate status and lack of political authority in comparison to Tomislav Karamarko and to a lesser extent Božo Petrov. In addition, the government had managed to present only a handful of bills to Parliament , due to an inability to reach the required quorum for three weeks, mostly owing to lack of accord between

418-640: The very Prime Minister the party had installed with MOST was held on 16 June 2016, leading to the fall of the entire cabinet by a successful vote of 125 in favor, out of a total of 142 MPs taking part. The cabinet was a minority government for the entire duration of its term, with the two parties holding representation in the cabinet - the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and Bridge of Independent Lists (Most) - together initially having 64 Members of Parliament (out of 151 in total) and thus being short of an overall majority of 76 MPs by 12 seats. The government thus relied on outside parliamentary support to achieve such

440-734: Was held in September 2016 . On July 7, 2016, 1.500 members of the Croatian Party of Rights dr. Ante Starčević left the party because of their dissatisfaction of how the party was run, accusing it of "becoming a spokesman for HDZ ". On the same day, Main Committee of the Croatian Peasant Party made a decision that they would leave the Coalition and join coalition led by center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia . On July 25, 2016, HDZ announced that it would leave

462-565: Was scheduled to take place on June 16, but he instead chose to resign the day before it could occur, following the verdict of the Commission for the Prevention of Conflicts of Interest, which stipulated that Karamarko had indeed been in a conflict of interest when he had, during a meeting of the government cabinet, expressed the opinion that Croatia should exit an arbitration process with MOL. Instead, an HDZ-backed motion of no confidence in

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484-506: Was the government cabinet of Croatia between 22 January until 19 October 2016. It was formed following the 2015 election . The negotiation process leading to its formation was the longest in Croatian history, totaling at a record 76 days. On 16 June 2016, Orešković's government lost a motion of no confidence in the Parliament with 125 MPs voting for, 15 against and 2 abstaining. As a result, the Orešković cabinet served in an acting capacity until

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