Josip Leko

Josip Leko (born 19 September 1948[1]) is a Croatian politician who served as the 19th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since independence.

Josip Leko
Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia
Assumed office
7 June 2016
PresidentMiroslav Šeparović
Speaker of the Croatian Parliament
In office
30 September 2012 – 28 December 2015
Acting until 10 October 2012
Preceded byBoris Šprem
Succeeded byŽeljko Reiner
Chairperson of the Committee on the Constitution, Standing Orders and Political System of the Croatian Parliament
In office
22 December 2011 – 12 October 2012
Preceded byVladimir Šeks
Succeeded byPeđa Grbin
Personal details
Born (1948-09-19) 19 September 1948
Plavna, PR Serbia, Yugoslavia
NationalityCroatian
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materFaculty of Law
(University of Zagreb)[1]
ProfessionLawyer

Biography

He was born in 1948 in Plavna village (Bač municipality) in Bačka, Serbia (then Yugoslavia) to a Croatian family from Ledinac near Grude in western Herzegovina. When he was one and a half years old the family returned to Herzegovina.

He finished high school in Herzegovina and went to university in Zagreb, Croatia where he got a major in law.

On 19 June 2012 he became a president of the Executive Council of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia. [2]

When in 2013 he became the Speaker of the Parliament he became the first Croat from Herzegovina to hold such a high position in Croatian politics.

Career

Leko was deputy speaker from 23 December 2011 to 30 September 2012, when he succeeded Boris Šprem, who died in office, as interim speaker. He had already been acting as speaker during Šprem's absence due to cancer treatment in Houston, Texas. He was proposed as the permanent Speaker of the Parliament by the ruling coalition and was confirmed on 10 October 2012, by a vote of 123 parliamentarians out of 151.[1]

On June 3, 2016, Croatian Parliament appointed him as a justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia and he took his position on June 7.[3]

References
  1. "Speaker of Parliament". sabor.hr. Croatian Parliament. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  2. ba/VLM: Josip Leko izabran za šefa Glavnog odbora SDP-a, 16. lipnja 2012.
  3. "Izbjegnuta ustavna kriza: Izabrano 10 sudaca Ustavnog suda". Index.hr. Retrieved 6 October 2017.


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