Dragutin Lesar

Dragutin Lesar
Member of Parliament
In office
22 December 2003 – 25 September 2015
PresidentStjepan Mesić (2003–2010)
Ivo Josipović (2010–2015)
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (2015)
Prime MinisterIvo Sanader (2003–2009)
Jadranka Kosor (2009–2011)
Zoran Milanović (2011–2015)
ConstituencyIII electoral district
1st President of the Croatian Labourists – Labour Party
In office
31 March 2010 – 25 May 2014
Succeeded byNansi Tireli
Personal details
Born (1956-03-04) 4 March 1956 (age 68)
Mačkovec, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Political partyCroatian Labourists – Labour Party (2010–2015)
Other political
affiliations
Croatian People's Party (1996–2008)
SpouseAnica Lesar
Residence(s)Šenkovec, Croatia[1]
OccupationPolitician, union leader

Dragutin Lesar (born 4 March 1956) is a retired Croatian politician. Originally a union leader in the 1980s, he joined the liberal Croatian People's Party (HNS) in 1996. As member of HNS he was elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2003 and 2007 general elections and served in the 5th and 6th Sabor.[2] In April 2008 he resigned from HNS and continued to serve in the parliament as an independent.[2] In April 2010 he founded the left wing Croatian Labourists – Labour Party (HL) and became their first party president.

  1. ^ Hudelist, Darko. Dragutin Lesar: ljuti ljevičar koji ne bi rušio kapitalizam Archived November 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Globus. 2011-08-0+. Retrieved 2011-11-02 (in Croatian)
  2. ^ a b "Dragutin Lesar" (in Croatian). Sabor.hr. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2011.