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

Tomislavgrad Tomislavgrad (), also known by its former name Duvno (), is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It mainly covers an area of the historical and geographica ...

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, then

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

) 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 flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted, farmed, and scavenged animals for meat since prehistoric times. The establishment of settlements in the Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals such as chic ...

processing industry prior to the beginning of the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

. 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 People from Tomislavgrad Croat politicians from Bosnia and Herzegovina People's Party for Work and Betterment politicians {{BosniaHerzegovina-politician-stub