Hrvoje Šarinić (; 17 February 1935 – 21 July 2017) was a Croatian politician who served as

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from 1992 to 1993. Šarinić was born in Sušak and graduated from the

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then-Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy. Šarinić had a business career in

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. He was a dual citizen of both Croatia and of France, as he spent 24 years in France, from 1963 to 1987. After the first democratic elections in Croatia, he joined the government of

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and became head of his personal office. After the parliamentary elections of 1992 he, as member of

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(HDZ), was appointed to the post of prime minister. His cabinet, like all in Tuđman years, was less concerned with foreign policy and war and more with domestic issues. One of those issues was privatisation of state-owned companies. During his time many of the most controversial events of that process took place, including the now infamous takeover of

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in early 1993. By that time Croatian economy continued to decline, Šarinić himself became immensely unpopular and even his native

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rejected HDZ at local elections in February 1993. All that, together with escalating war in

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, led Tuđman to replace him with

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in April 1993. Šarinić was not demoted, however. He continued to serve as Tuđman's close advisor and was, for a while, head of Croatian security services. He remained in public spotlight because of his diplomatic missions and frequent negotiations with

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. After one of those missions he created great deal of controversy by claiming that one of the results of former Yugoslav wars should be "little Greater Serbia".Biography
at Moljac.hr In 1995, he was the government's official representative in the

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. In 1998, Šarinić publicly criticized high-ranking HDZ politician

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and – after Tuđman sided with Pašalić – resigned from his post. In 2000 he joined and was briefly active with the newly formed Democratic Centre. Šarinić died on 21 July 2017 in Zagreb at the age of 82. He was buried at

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five days after his death, on 26 July.

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