Miroslav Tuđman (; 25 May 1946 – 31 January 2021) was a Croatian scientist and politician, the son and eldest child of the first

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, and his wife Ankica.

Biography

Tuđman was born in

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, where he completed grade school, before he moved with his family to

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in 1961. He was born on his parents' 1st anniversary. He was named Miroslav after the famous writer

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who was adored by his father at that period. He graduated from gymnasium and then from the

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at the

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in 1970. He became part of the faculty and received a doctorate in information sciences at the same university in 1985. In 1989 he founded the Institute for Information Studies at the Faculty. He participated in the

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in 1991, and in 1992 he became the head of the Center for Strategic Research. Later he was the deputy head of the National Security Office and then the founder and leader of the first Croatian Intelligence Agency (; HIS) between 1993 and 1998, and then from 1999 to 2000. In 1995, President Tuđman decorated him with the Order of Duke Domagoj, for war-time merit as a member of the political administration of the

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. In 1998, he became a tenured professor at the

. His first venture into politics was as a co-founding member of the briefly active leftist Social Democrats of Croatia (SDSH) together with his friend

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in 1990, but he soon switched to his father's party – the conservative

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(HDZ). However, he was largely politically inactive during the 1990s. Following his father's death and HDZ's first election defeat in 2000, he ran for the

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as an independent candidate in the 2001 local elections, winning 7.6% of the vote. That same year he and

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founded a fringe right-wing party Croatian True Revival (HIP), which later cooperated with Croatian Bloc (HB) led by Ivić Pašalić–another HDZ offshoot–but they gained no traction at the 2003 parliamentary election. In 2009 he was a nominally independent candidate in the

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, finishing seventh in the first round with 4.09% of the vote. He later re-joined HDZ and in 2011 won a seat in the

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on an HDZ ticket in the 7th assembly. He retained his seat in the following three elections in

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(8th assembly),

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(9th assembly) and

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(10th assembly). Tuđman died on 31 January 2021, at Zagreb's Hospital for Infectious Diseases where he had been hospitalized days earlier due to

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complications amidst the

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