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Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as the speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"24 December 1934","date":"1934-12-24"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146496#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Orahovica","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q397692"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q146496#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Socialist Federal Republic of 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Stjepan Mesić (2004-02-25) (cropped).jpg — European Commission, CC BY 4.0.","cite":"\"Stjepan Mesić\". DigiNepal. Last updated 3 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/stjepan-mesic. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-03T16:29:07Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/stjepan-mesic","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/stjepan-mesic","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/stjepan-mesic?lang=ne"}}