Gari Cappelli () (born 16 May 1961) is a Croatian politician who had served as the

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in the

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from 2016 to 2020. He also served as mayor of

Mali Lošinj Mali Lošinj is a town in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, on the island of Lošinj, in western Croatia. At the time of the 2021 census, there were 7,537 inhabitants, of whom 86% were Croats. The town of Mali Lošinj itself had an urban populat ...

between 2005 and 2016.

Early life

Cappelli was born on 16 May 1961 in

in a family with origins from

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Political career

Cappelli joined HDZ in 1992 and soon became the head of Mali Lošinj's HDZ town committee and started work in the county party committee. In 1999, due to his perfect knowledge of the Italian language, he was posted at the Croatian Consulate General in the Italian city of

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, where he was in charge of economic co-operation. In 2005, Cappelli is running for Mayor of Mali Lošinj and has been performing for the third term for this position. From 19 October 2016 to 23 July 2020, Cappelli served as the 13th

, in the

. He succeeded Anton Kliman.

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