Mladen Ivanković-Lijanović (born 22 August 1960 in Duvno (now

Tomislavgrad Tomislavgrad ( Cyrl, Томиславград, ), also known by its former name Duvno ( Cyrl, Дувно, ), is a town and the seat of the Municipality of Tomislavgrad in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosni ...

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, then

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) is a Bosnian politician and businessman. He is the founder and leader of the People's Party Work for Betterment.

Biography

Lijanović was born in the rural part of the

municipality into a family which included three brothers and a sister. The family wealth was made in the

meat Meat is animal Tissue (biology), tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of vertebrates, including chickens, sheep, ...

processing industry prior to the beginning of the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incid ...

. Lijanović twice ran unsuccessfully for the Bosnian Croat seat in the

Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina The presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Predsjedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine, separator=" / ", Предсједништво Босне и Херцеговине) is a three-member body which collectively serves as head of state of ...

. In 2006, his brother, Jerko, was elected to the Bosnian parliament. In 2010, his political party gained many Bosnian Croat votes that had previously often gone to the parties of HDZBiH and HDZ1990.

References

1960 births Living people Politicians from Tomislavgrad Croat politicians from Bosnia and Herzegovina People's Party for Work and Betterment politicians {{BosniaHerzegovina-politician-stub