Željko Glasnović (born 24 February 1954) is a former Croatian military officer and politician. He was a member of Croatian Parliament's club called

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Biography

He was born in Zagreb in 1954. His late father was from

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and his late mother was from Posavina. His family emigrated to Canada in 1962, where he became a member of the Canadian Army, in which he served for five years. The next year and a half he spent in the French Foreign Legion. He fought in the Gulf War. Following the escalation of the

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, he returned to his homeland and joined the Croatian National Guard in 1991.Večernji list Biographies: Željko Gasnović, retired general
Večernji list, published 1 December 2016, accessdate 9 February 2018 He was a military commanding officer in

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, but after the Fall of Vukovar in November 1991, he was moved to Tomislavgrad, where he joined Battalion "Zrinski". He was severely wounded around the heart in the Battle of Kupres. His soldiers transported him from Bugojno to Franciscan monastery in Prozor-Rama. The next two months he spent in a Split hospital but he returned to the Kupres front. He was known as a very strict commander demanding a high level of discipline. In 1994, he became commanding officer of the 1st brigade of the Croatian Defence Council. He participated in Cincar Operation and Operation Storm. President of Croatia Stjepan Mesić retired him and other generals in 2000.

Politics

He was not politically active until the

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. He was elected into the Croatian Parliament as a member of

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in IX district, reserved for Croatian diaspora. During his first MP term (2015–2016) in 11th electoral district, he was member of the Committee on Croats outside the Republic of Croatia, War Veterans Committee, Interparliamentary Co-operation Committee and Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the NATO. Although he was elected on HDZ list, he was never a member of the party. For the

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he formed independent list and won one seat in Croatian Parliament representing the diaspora. Presently, he joined

. He is calling upon

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and

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of Croatia.

Honorary guest of National Democratic Party of Germany

In 2018, he was an honorary guest at a party congress of the ultranationalist

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in the town of Büdingen. At the congress, he confirmed for the media that NPD members fought alongside him during the Croatian War of Independence and Bosnian War. He stated that during the 1990s wars, "they PD membersfought for the values of the West, Christianity, moral integrity, working habits and identity". He added that he shared NPD's world view, in particularly "

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, nation, religion and shared European values". When asked if he was a

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– how usually the NPD party is referred to – he refused to directly reply to the question, but added that he is much closer to NPD, than to " communists" from Croatia "who are under a mask of

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and democracy".D
Željko Glasnović - Honorary guest at the German extreme right wing congress
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Glasnović works with NPD, and NPD with neo-Nazis and pro-Chetnik Serbian action
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References

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