Miroslav Rožić (born August 31, 1956) is a Croatian right-wing politician. As a former vice-president of Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), he served as a representative in

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between 2001 and 2007. He was previously a member of the

Croatian Social Liberal Party The Croatian Social Liberal Party ( hr, Hrvatska socijalno-liberalna stranka or HSLS) is a conservative-liberal political party in Croatia. The HSLS was formed in 1989 as the first Croatian political party formed after the reintroduction of mult ...

(HSLS) and is currently a member of the

Croatian Peasant Party The Croatian Peasant Party ( hr, Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) is an agrarian political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The Brothers Radić believed that t ...

(HSS). Rožić was born in

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, as a fourth generation ''Agramer''. His family was very well-to-do before the

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nationalised their property in 1945. His father was considered to be an Ustasha sympathizer and bourgeois, so in

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he had to accept jobs he was over-qualified for. Rožić obtained a degree in biology from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

and pursued a scientific career. He planned to defend his doctoral dissertation in 1991 when war erupted in Croatia. Rožić joined the

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where he served as a translator, due to his fluent use of English, German and Italian. He was also a member of

(HSLS), and in 1993 he was elected to Zagreb city council. In 1995, Rožić and his close friend Tonči Tadić left HSLS because of conflicts with party's president

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and party's positioning on the centre-left part of the political spectrum. The same year they joined the HSP. In 1997, Rožić was elected to the now non-existing upper house of

. He and Tadić became major figures in HSP and refreshed party's image. Rožić became a party leader in Zagreb and ran for mayor in 2005, finishing solid third. In September 2007, after a spat with Anto Đapić, both Rožić and Tadić left HSP. In October 2009, Rožić joined the Zagreb branch of the

(HSS).

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