Josip Leko
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| Josip Leko | |
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| 9th[a] Speaker of the Croatian Parliament | |
| In office 10 October 2012 – 28 December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Boris Šprem |
| Succeeded by | Željko Reiner |
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| Born | 19 September 1948 Plavna, AP Vojvodina, SR Serbia FPR Yugoslavia (now AP Vojvodina, Serbia) |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb[1] |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| ^a In order counting from the 1990 parliamentary election. 19th speaker of parliament overall. | |
Josip Leko (born 19 September 1948[1]) is a Croatian politician who served as a 9th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament.
Career
Leko was deputy Speaker from 23 December 2011 to 30 September 2012, when he succeeded Boris Šprem, who died in office, as interim Speaker. He had already been acting as Speaker during Šprem's absence due to cancer treatment in Houston, Texas. He was proposed as the permanent Speaker of the Parliament by the ruling coalition and was confirmed on 10 October 2012, by a vote of 123 parliamentarians out of 151.[1]
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