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This is a list of prime ministers of Croatia since the first multi-party elections in 1990 ranked by the length of their combined terms in office.

Prime ministers

Andrej Plenković
is Croatia's incumbent prime minister and the longest-serving holder of the office – at 7 years, 117 days or 2673 days.
Ivo Sanader was Croatia's second longest-serving prime minister – at 5 years, 195 days or 2022 days.
Zlatko Mateša was Croatia's third-longest serving prime minister – at 4 years, 81 days or 1542 days, and the longest-serving officeholder of the era of semi-presidentialism (1990–2000).
Zoran Milanović
was Croatia's fourth-longest serving prime minister – at 4 years, 30 days or 1491 days, and the longest serving non-HDZ prime minister.
Tihomir Orešković was Croatia's tenth-longest serving prime minister – at 271 days, and the shortest-serving officeholder during the era of an incomplete parliamentary system (2000–present).
Stjepan Mesić was Croatia's shortest-serving Prime Minister – at 86 days.

Political parties:   Croatian Democratic Union   Social Democratic Party   Independent

Prime Minister Incumbency Years in power Number of mandates Notes
1
 Andrej Plenković (incumbent) 7 years, 117 days 2016–present 1 minority Plenković served one full term and is currently serving a second term. He has headed two cabinets, with both of them being minority coalition governments (2016–2020 and since 2020). Plenković is the longest-serving prime minister of Croatia.
2
 Ivo Sanader 5 years, 195 days 2003–2009 2 minority & 1 majority Sanader served one full term at the head of a minority government and one short term as the head of a majority government. He resigned during his second term. Jadranka Kosor served out the remainder of his second term.
3
 Zlatko Mateša 4 years, 81 days 1995–2000 1 majority Mateša served one full term. His cabinet has the single longest duration of any Croatian government since first multi-party elections in 1990.
4
 Zoran Milanović 4 years, 30 days 2011–2016 1 majority Milanović served one full term heading a majority coalition government.
5
 Ivica Račan 3 years, 330 days 2000–2003 2 majority Račan served one full term. He headed two cabinets: at first a six-party majority coalition (2000–2002) and then a five-party majority coalition (2002–2003).
6
 Nikica Valentić 2 years, 218 days 1993–1995 none Valentić served out the term of Hrvoje Šarinić. He never won an election in his own right.
7
 Jadranka Kosor 2 years, 170 days 2009–2011 none Jadranka Kosor served out the remainder of Ivo Sanader's second term. She never won an election in her own right.
8
 Franjo Gregurić 1 year, 26 days 1991–1992 none Gregurić was the second of two Prime Ministers to serve out the term of Stjepan Mesić. He headed a National Unity Government at the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence and had the parliamentary support of almost all parties. He never won an election in his own right.
9
 Josip Manolić 327 days 1990–1991 none Manolić was the first of two Prime Ministers to serve out the remainder of the term of Stjepan Mesić, who had resigned to take up a seat in the Federal Presidency (Croatia did not formally declared independence until 25 June 1991). Manolić never won an election in his own right. He was succeeded by Franjo Gregurić.
10
 Tihomir Orešković 271 days 2016 1 minority Orešković served one short full term heading a minority coalition government.
11
 Hrvoje Šarinić 234 days 1992–1993 1 majority Šarinić served one term heading a majority government. Nikica Valentić served out the remainder of the term until the next election.
12
 Stjepan Mesić 86 days 1990 1 majority Mesić served one short term. He was elected Prime Minister by Parliament following the first multi-party election in 1990 (when Croatia was still part of Yugoslavia) and resigned to take up SR Croatia's seat in the Federal Presidency of Yugoslavia in Belgrade. The remaining 2 years of his term were served out by Josip Manolić and Franjo Gregurić.

Prime ministers' parties by total time in office (since the 1990 elections)

Periods of continuous government by prime ministers' parties since 1990

Incumbent Prime Minister

Andrej Plenković took office as prime minister on 19 October 2016. On 4 May 2022, he surpassed the tenure of Ivo Sanader (5 years, 195 days) and became the longest-serving prime minister of Croatia since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and independence on 25 June 1991.[1][2][3]

If he were to continuously hold the office until:

See also

References

  1. ^ ""Plenković najdugovječniji premijer zbog tehnologije vladanja infiltracijom"". 29 April 2022.
  2. ^ https://direktno.hr/direkt/plenkovic-postao-najdugovjecniji-premijer-i-nadmasio-sanadera-a-rejting-mu-ne-pada-270020/
  3. ^ "Jutarnji list - HDZ-ovci ne trče u Vladu, slijedi li sada outsourcing?". 21 April 2022.
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