Constituency III electoral district Name Dragutin Lesar Children Igor Lesar | Preceded by Office established Role Politician | |
President Stjepan Mesic (until 2010)
Ivo Josipovic Prime Minister Ivo Sanader (2003-2009)
Jadranka Kosor (2009-2011)
Zoran Milanovic Born 4 March 1956 (age 68)
Mackovec, Croatia ( 1956-03-04 ) Political party Croatian Labourists – Labour Party Other political
affiliations Croatian People's Party (1996-2008) Party Croatian Labourists – Labour Party Residence Senkovec, Croatia, Cakovec, Croatia, Croatia | ||
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Dragutin Lesar (born 4 March 1956) is 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. In April 2008 he resigned from HNS and continued to serve in the parliament as an independent. In April 2010 he founded the left wing Croatian Labourists – Labour Party (HL) and became their first party president.
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Early life
Dragutin Lesar was born on 4 March 1956 in village Mackovec near Cakovec in Socialist Republic of Croatia. He attended a primary school in Mackovec, and later Senkovec, where he moved in 1953. Due to poor financial situation, his secondary education is that of a commercialist, despite his wishes to attend a gymnasium in Zagreb. His father died in 1972, after an accident at the workplace. Lesar sponsored his own education with various awards he received as an excellent student. After finishing high school in 1975, he worked at a number of places: a department store, a shoe store and an iron foundry in Cakovec. While working at the foundry he also studied sales management.
Trade union activity
He started his trade union activities in 1978 as a union representative. In 1980 he became secretary of the Cakovec Municipal Council of Trade Unions. He leaves the Municipal Council of Trade Unions because of the disagreement with local Communist Party officials. After that, he moved to Mursko Sredisce and employed in "Gorenje-Mural", an aluminium radiator factory, where he worked as a sales director. After that, he is employed in the iron foundry in Cakovec, where he conducts procurement operations and forms commercial service. In 1985 he joins again the trade union. He became secretary of the trade union in Cakovec by a tender. On his initiative, on 7 April 1990 "Union of Workers Employed in Private Sector" was founded. This union was later renamed "Croatian Union of Non-Industrial Workers and Private Employees".
Since attempt of reformation of Union of Syndicates of Croatia failed in 1990, Lesar, Vesna Dejanovic, Ivan Miletic and Milan Krivokuca founded Union of Independent Syndicates of Croatia (Croatian: Savez samostalnih sindikata Hrvatska) at the end of 1990. In January 1991 Lesar became president of SSSH. From January 1991 until March 1996 he performed this duty, when he resigned and joined PPDIV Syndicate.
Political career
In autumn of 1996, he contacted Radimir Cacic, Srecko Bijelic, Savka Dabcevic-Kucar and Dragutin Haramija and joined Croatian People's Party (HNS), and few months later he became the party's vice-president and worked so in the party for next 12 years. During the local elections in 1997 he was holder of the list for Medimurje County and candidate for House of Counties of Croatian Sabor. His rivals were Franjo Tudman, Ivica Racan, Vlado Gotovac and Drago Stipac. He won 14.66% of votes and thus he did not enter the Sabor, but he did succeed in winning 5 seats for County Assembly and made a coalition with Croatian Social Liberal Party and Croatian Peasant Party and thus removed Croatian Democratic Union from ruling role. Lesar became prefect's deputy. During 2000, Medimurje County Assembly accepts Lesar's proposal for foundation of Medimurje solidarity foundation "Katruza", and he becomes the manager of the foundation. On local elections in 2001 he won 6 seats and formed the same coalition and again becomes prefect's deputy.
During the Croatian parliamentary elections of 2003, Lesar was the top-ranked candidate of the electoral list of HNS for the 3rd Electoral District. HNS won 2 seats, so Lesar entered in Sabor along with Radimir Cacic. During the parliamentary elections of 2007 he again became member of the parliament, but due to conflict with newly elected president of the HNS Radimir Cacic, he left HNS and acted as independent member of parliament since April 2008.
On 31 March 2010 Lesar founded Croatian Labourists – Labour Party and became its president. He competed in the Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 and won a seat in parliament.
Personal life
In 1977 he married Anica, who gave birth to their son, Igor, the same year. In 1984, they got a daughter, Maja.