Vlatko Pavletić (; 2 December 1930 – 19 September 2007) was a

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n politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist who served as acting

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from 1999 to 2000, as well as he served as

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from 1995 to 2000. Pavletić was born in

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, then in the

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. In 1955, he graduated from the

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at the

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, where he majored in

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and literature. In 1972, he was imprisoned for a year and a half by the communist Yugoslav government as a Croatian nationalist for "attempting to destroy and change the state organization". He earned a doctorate in 1975. Between 1990 and 1992, Pavletić served as

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under prime ministers

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and Franjo Gregurić. In 1992, he was elected to the

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and was appointed Speaker of the Parliament on 28 November 1995. He held the post until 2000. When President

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was declared incapacitated on 26 November 1999, he automatically became acting President of Croatia. He held this office from Tuđman's death on 10 December 1999 until the Croatian Parliament elected

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as new speaker (and thus the new acting president) on 2 February 2000. In 2004, Pavletić retired from politics. He died in Zagreb from

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on 19 September 2007. He was 76.

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