Ruža Tomašić

Ruza Tomašić ( born May 10, 1958 in Mladoševica, SR Bosnia - Herzegovina, Yugoslavia ) is a Croatian politician. In April 2013, it was elected as an MP in the European Parliament.

Life

Ruza Tomašić was born in the Bosnian village Mladoševica. As a 15 -year-old, she emigrated with her family to Canada. In the Canadian police she was motorcycle cop. After a visit by Croatian President Franjo Tuđman in Vancouver, she was a bodyguard in the early 1990s with him. Because of cancer, she returned temporarily back to Canada. In 1998, she settled with her family in the home of her husband on the Croatian Adriatic island of Korcula. Ruza Tomašić has two children.

Political career

From 2003 to 2008 he was deputy Tomašić for the right party Hrvatska stranka prava (HSP ) in the Croatian Parliament. In 2009 she founded the breakaway Hrvatska stranka prava dr. Ante Starčević (HSP -AS) and won at the 2011 general election whose only mandate. In advance of the membership of Croatia in the European Union 1 July 2013 twelve Croatian deputies were elected to the European Parliament in April 2013. On the common list of her party with the conservative Hrvatska Demokratska zajednica (HDZ ) Tomašić received the most and of all the candidates is the second most votes. The turnout was 20.75 percent. In the European Parliament Tomašić thing of the ECR Group.

Politics

Tomašić is considered nationalistic and was until the recent past as Europe opponent. During the election campaign for the European Parliament she remarked, according to press reports from March 2013 regarding the Serb minority with: " Croatia is the Croatian, all others are guests". After significant criticism from the Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic they claimed to have not said so.

Source

• Thomas Roser: "With Hate speech to European Parliament ," Stuttgarter Zeitung of 17 April 2013.