The speaker of the Croatian Parliament ( hr, Predsjednik Hrvatskog sabora, literally the president of the Croatian Parliament) is the presiding officer in the

Croatian Parliament The Croatian Parliament ( hr, Hrvatski sabor) or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Croatia. Under the terms of the Croatian Constitution, the Sabor represents the people and is vested with legislative power. The Sab ...

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's legislative body. Under Article 97 of the

constitution of Croatia The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Ustav Republike Hrvatske) is promulgated by the Croatian Parliament. History While it was part of the socialist Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Croatia had its own Constitution under the ...

, the speaker of the Croatian Parliament is the only constitutional deputy to the

president of Croatia The president of Croatia, officially the President of the Republic of Croatia ( hr, Predsjednik Republike Hrvatske), is the head of state, commander-in-chief of the military and chief representative of the Republic of Croatia both within the ...

and serves as acting president if the elected president vacates the office before the expiration of the five-year presidential term due to either death, resignation or removal from office (as determined by the

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). In this case an early presidential election must be held within 60 days of the vacancy in the presidency having occurred and the speaker shall serve as acting president until the newly elected president is sworn in for a full five-year term of office. Under the same article of the Constitution, the president of Croatia may unilaterally choose to temporarily delegate authority to the speaker of the Parliament for shorts periods of time, such as whenever the president is not present in the country, is ill, or is on vacation, until the president wishes to fully resume authority once again. However, in case of longer periods of the president's illness or incapacitation, and especially in those cases when the president is not able to delegate authority to speaker, the responsibility of determining when a speaker should assume or renounce temporary authority rests upon the Constitutional Court, which acts upon the recommendation of the government of Croatia. The incumbent speaker of the Croatian Parliament is

Gordan Jandroković Gordan Jandroković (born 2 August 1967) is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since 2017. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2008 to 2011, and as Deput ...

of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), having taken office on 5 May 2017 following the resignation of the previous speaker.

Duties and competences

According to the

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and the Parliamentary Rules of Procedure (Standing Orders of the Croatian Parliament), president of the Parliament: *shall substitute for the president of the Republic if the latter is prevented from performing his/her duties *represents Parliament *convenes and presides over sessions of Parliament *submits motions from authorised sponsors for stipulated procedures *proposes the agenda for sessions of Parliament *handles the procedures for the enactment of laws and other regulations *co-ordinates the activities of working bodies *signs laws and other regulations enacted by Parliament *directs enacted laws to the president of the Republic for proclamation *manages relations between Parliament and the Government *co-signs decisions on the appointment of the prime minister and the appointment of members of the Government *accepts sponsorships ''ex-officio'' *approves, taking into account available funds, the travel of parliamentary deputies when they have been invited, as parliamentary deputies, to *visit another state or foreign organisation *co-ordinates the work of standing delegations of Parliament in international parliamentary and other institutions *determines, at the proposal of deputy clubs, the composition of temporary delegations of Parliament in visits to foreign representative bodies and *organisations, such that they generally correspond to the party structure of Parliament and reflect the appropriate representation of both sexes *determines the composition of temporary delegations in cases when he/she is invited abroad as the speaker of Parliament *designates representatives of Parliament at ceremonial and other occasions, adhering to the representation of both sexes *submits a request, at the proposal of the Secretary of Parliament, for the securing of funds for the work of Parliament and the Parliamentary Staff Service *ensures the protection of the rights and exercise of the duties of parliamentary deputies *presides over the oaths of elected and appointed officials, when specified by law and Standing Orders of the Parliament *performs other activities determined by the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, law and Standing Orders of the Parliament

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This is the list of speakers of the Croatian Parliament.

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