Valter Drandić

Valter Drandić
Valter Drandić
	Valter Drandić
Mayor of Pula
	In office; 2005–2006
Member of the Croatian Parliament
	In office; 2 February 2000 – 22 December 2003
	In office; 22 December 2003 – 11 January 2008
Personal details
Born	7 August 1956; Pula, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political party	Istrian Democratic Assembly
Alma mater	University of Pula

Valter Drandić (born August 7, 1956) is a Croatian politician, President of the Istria County Assembly, and a member of the European Committee of the Regions. He was in the Sabor for two terms from February 2000 to December 2003 and from December 2003 to January 2008.[1][2]

He graduated from technical school and studied economics and tourism in Pula. He passed the professional exams for the expert associate for informatics and for the organizer of automatic data processing at the Republic Committee for Science, Technology and Informatics in Zagreb.[1]

He was elected a member of the Istrian County Assembly five times (1993, 1997, 2009, 2013 and 2017), and in 2013 and 2017 he was elected President of the Assembly. By decision of the Croatian Government, on December 11, 2019 he was appointed member of the European Committee in the region mandate 2020th to 2025th. From 1996 to 2000 he served as Deputy Mayor of the County of Istria .

In 1997, he was elected a member of the County House of the Croatian National Parliament. From 2000 to 2008, he was elected to the Croatian Parliament for two terms, where he served as President of the Tourism Committee and President of the Executive Board of the National Group of the Croatian Parliament at the Inter-Parliamentary Union.[1][2] He was also a member of the National Committee for Monitoring the Process of Croatia's accession to the European Union, the Croatian Parliament Delegation to the Croatian-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, the Committee for European Integration and the Committee for Interparliamentary Cooperation and the President of the Croatian-Italian Friendship Group.

He was Mayor of the City of Pula from June 2005 to June 2006.[3]

He has been a member of the Presidency of the Istrian Democratic Parliament since 2013, where he also served as President of the City Branch of IDS Pula (1995-1997 and 2002–2006), Vice President of IDS (1997-1999 and 2006–2010), Secretary General of the IDS (1999-2002) and President of the Council of the IDS (2002-2006).

From 2001 to 2005 he was Deputy President of the Croatian Fire Department Union (Hrvatska vatrogasna zajednica), from 2005 to 2013 Vice-President of the Croatian Fire Department Union, and since 2013 member of the Presidency of the Croatian Fire Department Union.

He is the holder of the decoration of the President of the Italian Republic "Ufficiale dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia", the Fire Decoration for Special Merits of the Hrvatska vatrogasna zajednica, and the Homeland War Memorial Medal of the Republic of Croatia. Drandić and his party well behaved and showed friendliness towards the Italian of Istria, where today many municipalities have bilingual statutes, signboards are bilingual, and the Italian language is considered to be a co-official language.[4]

Drandić is credited with pushing young Boris Miletić into politics and suggesting him for the mayorship of Pula, which Miletić achieved at a very young age. Because of his young age, "no one believed it was a good move." However, "even then," Drandić saw great potential in Miletić, and went against odds. Miletić later became President of the Istrian Democratic Assembly and one of the Mayors of Pula with the longest time in office.[5]

References

"Valter Drandić (IDS)". Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
"Valter Drandić (IDS)". Sabor. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
"Upravljali su Pulom od 1186. godine". Pula.info. Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
"Valter Drandić è Ufficiale: "Basta con le divisioni"". La Voce del Popolo. Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
"VALTER DRANDIĆ: "Miletića sam ja gurnuo u vatru i nisam požalio. Pokazao se kao odličan gradonačelnik i sposoban predsjednik stranke"". Glas Istre. Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

Preceded by Luciano Delbianco	Mayor of Pula 2005–2006	Succeeded by Boris Miletić

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[Croatian_Parliament-1] "Valter Drandić (IDS)". Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[Croatian_Parliament2-2] "Valter Drandić (IDS)". Sabor. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[pula.info-3] "Upravljali su Pulom od 1186. godine". Pula.info. Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[Voce-4] "Valter Drandić è Ufficiale: "Basta con le divisioni"". La Voce del Popolo. Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

[Glas1-5] "VALTER DRANDIĆ: "Miletića sam ja gurnuo u vatru i nisam požalio. Pokazao se kao odličan gradonačelnik i sposoban predsjednik stranke"". Glas Istre. Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.