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Slaven Letica 28 June [ 1 ] [ 2 ] — 25 October was a Croatian author, economist, commentator and politician. In late s, as the Communist grip on public discourse weakened, Letica began to use new freedoms to advocate various reforms. In the following years Letica continued to appear in the Croatian media as a commentator, espousing opposition views, and became a regular columnist for Globus , a popular news magazine.

The article was a source of significant controversy which ultimately resulted in a successful defamation lawsuit against the magazine. In the Croatian presidential election , Letica ran as an independent candidate. Although he finished fourth, the relatively high percentage of votes he won 4. Letica, with his reputation of a refined urbanite and European intellectual, served this purpose very well and on the Croatian parliamentary election , as a candidate on HSP's list, won a seat in the Sabor Croatian Parliament.

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The HSP nevertheless used Letica again as their candidate in the Croatian presidential election. When Letica won fewer votes than in , 2. In the Croatian parliamentary election , his independent list for the Zagreb region failed to gain the five percent of the vote needed to enter the Parliament. They had two sons, Bartol born in and Frane born in Selected books: [ 2 ].