Mate Granić

Mate Granić ( born September 19, 1947 in Baska Voda, Croatia) is a Croatian politician.

Biography

After school he studied medicine from 1966 to 1971 at the University of Zagreb and then worked as a doctor. In the following years the medical training in the Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Ozren Novosel University Hospital and 1974-1978 included Vuk Vrhovac at the Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology. From 1976 to 1977 he completed his postgraduate studies diabetology and then became an assistant at Vuk Vrhovec Institute, whose director of the Division he was in 1979.

After earning his PhD in sc 1982 he became first an assistant professor before he became Full Professor in 1985. As such, at the same time he was appointed Deputy Director of Vuk Vrhovac Institute for Diabetes and Endocrinology. In 1989 he accepted an appointment as professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zagreb and was at the same time the Vice Dean. In 1990 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. At times, he also worked as a visiting professor at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.

Prof. Dr. Granić was appointed by President Franjo Tuđman as foreign minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nikica Valentić on 28 May 1993. This post he held under his successor Zlatko MATESA until 27 January 2000.

In the presidential elections in early 2000 he was the presidential candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union ( Hrvatska Demokratska zajednica, HDZ). But he did not reach enough votes to compete in the runoff election against President Stjepan Mesic then selected.

Later he founded the small party Democratic Centre ( Demokratski centar, DC), the junior partner in the center-right coalition government of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader between 2003 and 2009 was.

In 2004, he was arrested after a task force against corruption established against him for bribery. However, he was already released a few days later for lack of evidence again.