Ivan Kuret (born 22 December 1971) is a Croatian politician who served as the 69th

Mayor of Split The Mayor of the City of Split, Croatia, Split ( hr, Gradonačelnik Grada Splita), colloquially the ''Poteštat'' (derived from "''podestà''"), is the highest official of the Croatian city of Split, Croatia, Split. From 1990 to 2007 the mayor was ...

from 2007 to 2009. He graduated from the University of Split with a degree in engineering. He is a member of the

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the Right-wing politics, right of the Left–right politics, political spectrum, but are closer to the Centrism, centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure a ...

Croatian Democratic Union The Croatian Democratic Union ( hr, Hrvatska demokratska zajednica, lit=Croatian Democratic Community, HDZ) is the major conservative, centre-right political party in Croatia. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Croa ...

(HDZ). He was elected the mayor on 17 July 2007, after the city council revoked confidence in his predecessor, Zvonimir Puljić. He was succeeded on 1 June 2009 by Željko Kerum. Kuret was also a

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the s ...

, and competed in the men's 470 event at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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1971 births Living people Mayors of Split, Croatia Croatian Democratic Union politicians Croatian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Croatia Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – 470 {{Croatia-yachtracing-bio-stub