Vlasta Pavić (born 24 May 1957) is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Zagreb from 2002 to 2005. She is the second woman to hold that office, and a member of the

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(SDP). She graduated at the Zagreb Faculty of Law in 1980.

Term as mayor

Pavić was elected mayor of

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on 1 March 2002 after Milan Bandić (also a member of the SDP) was forced to resign due to a public scandal. She was elected with the support of city assembly members of the ruling coalition of the time the SDP and the HNS. On taking office she indicated she planned to continue the projects begun by Bandić. Bandić was elected as one of her two deputies shortly afterwards. However Bandić reportedly intended for Pavić to serve as his puppet mayor, which she refused. The feud between Pavić and Bandić lasted throughout her career as a Zagreb mayor. She publicly accused him of treating Zagreb as his personal property. In May 2003, ''

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'' reported that in his campaign to undermine Pavić, Bandić was allied with the right-wing opposition. In March 2004 she demanded a public apology from Bandić for having allegedly insulted her mother in a "vulgar and very primitive" way. She stated that she had, in the interests of the city and the coalition, pushed much under the carpet but no longer considered it right to keep quiet. The incident occurred when an opposition member asked a question about a controversial purchase of land with city money. Pavić had answered that as it was a matter before the courts she could not go into details. This neutral answer did not satisfy Bandić and he started cursing her. The two struck a deal that she would not run in the next mayoral elections. Regular

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were held on 15 May 2005. Vlasta Pavić's mayoral term ended on 14 June 2005.

Honours and awards

*: Received a copy of the key of the city of

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on the occasion of her state visit to Albania.Received a copy of the key of the city of Tirana
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pavic, Vlasta 1957 births Living people Mayors of Zagreb Social Democratic Party of Croatia politicians Women mayors of places in Croatia