Pavao Miljavac (3 April 1953 – 5 December 2022) was a

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general. He served as

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between 1996 and 1998, and between October 1998 and January 2000 he served as Croatia's Minister of Defence in the

Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša The Sixth Government of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Šesta Vlada Republike Hrvatske) was the Croatian Government cabinet led by Prime Minister Zlatko Mateša. Its members took office on 7 November 1995 by decree of President Franjo Tuđman. ...

, following Andrija Hebrang's resignation. He ran in the January 2000 general election on the centre-right

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(HDZ) ticket, and won a seat in the

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. However, he left the party three months later and joined the newly established splinter party Democratic Centre in April 2000, along with other prominent HDZ members such as Vesna Škare-Ožbolt and

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. Miljavac left politics after 2003. He owned a

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facility in Novigrad na Dobri.

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