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Gordan Jandroković (born 2 August 1967) is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as
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of the
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since 2017. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2008 to 2011, and as
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from 2010 to 2011 in the cabinets of prime ministers Ivo Sanader and Jadranka Kosor. Born in
Bjelovar Bjelovar ( hu, Belovár, german: Bellowar, Kajkavian: ''Belovar'') is a city in central Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. At the 2021 census, there were 36,433 inhabitants, of whom 93.06% were Croats. Histor ...
, Jandroković graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1991 and obtained a
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from the Faculty of Political Sciences in 1993.Biography
at the Croatian Government website


Political career

Jandroković was elected a member of the
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for six consecutive times: in parliamentary elections in
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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Inc., Apple's first iPhone (1st generation), iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakis ...
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2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrates ...
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2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...
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2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...
and
2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
. During his parliamentary career, Jandroković, among other functions, served as the chairman of the Committee on the Economy, Development and Renovation from 2003 to 2004, and as the chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee from 2004 to 2007. In the same period he served as the chairman of the Delegation to the Croatia – EU Joint Parliamentary Committee. In the 7th term of the Croatian Parliament, from 2011 to 2015, Jandroković was the deputy chairman firstly of the European Integration Committee and then of the European Affairs Committee, founded upon Croatia’s entry into the
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. He was elected the chairman of the European Affairs Committee on 23 January 2016. Following the extraordinary parliamentary elections in September 2016, he was elected the Deputy Speaker of the Croatian Parliament on 14 October 2016. As per a post-election agreement, set up in 2016, between the two parties in the governing coalition: the
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(HDZ; led by Prime Minister
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) and the
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(Most; led by Božo Petrov, who would later be elected speaker of Parliament), Jandroković was supposed assume the speakership some time in 2018 (the middle of the current legislative term, due to end in 2020). However, due to the breakup of the coalition between the HDZ and the Most, Božo Petrov resigned as speaker on 4 May 2017, while Jandroković was voted into office as the new speaker the day later. Jandroković was re-elected as speaker on 22 July 2020 following the 2020 election.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jandrokovic, Gordan 1967 births Living people People from Bjelovar Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament Croatian Democratic Union politicians Croatian diplomats University of Zagreb alumni Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Foreign ministers of Croatia Speakers of the Croatian Parliament