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Croatia: Croatia: President Nominates Pharmaceutical Exec As Next Prime Minister

2016/01/03

Croatia’s president this week designated pharmaceutical executive Tihomir Orešković to become prime minister, nominating a technocrat put forward by conservatives and a reformist party next weeks of talks following an inconclusive election.

The November 8 elections were the country’s initial since it joined the European Union in 2013. No party gained the 76 seats needed for a majority, and the result was a hung parliament.

“He convinced me that he has support of 78 parliamentary deputies,” President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said. Parliament has 151 seats.

Orešković, 49, a pharmaceutical expert working as a senior manager in Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals, presently has 30 days to win approval for his cabinet in the parliament.

“I’ll invest all my knowledge and energy so that we can start solving the huge number of problems that we have,” Orešković said next his nomination.

The conservative HDZ and the reformist “Most” (Croatian for “bridge”) party struck a transaction on Wednesday next six weeks of talks on potential coalitions, which as well included the outgoing government’s Social Democrats..

Most insisted on a technocrat prime minister, saying this would bolster the reformist credentials of the new cabinet as one of the weakest European Union economies struggles to boost shaky increase and reduce severe fiscal imbalances.

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