ZAGREB, June 22, 2019 – Pop singer, composer, arranger and producer Miroslav Škoro will formally announce his bid for President of Croatia on Sunday morning, he wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday afternoon.
“As I have promised, I will announce my decision to run for President tomorrow at 9 am sharp on this Facebook page. I thank everyone … for helping me reach this decision,” the singer wrote.
Škoro has earned a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Economics in Osijek, where he was born in 1962. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Croatian Consul-General to Hungary. He ran in the 2007 parliamentary election as a candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party and became a member of parliament, withdrawing from politics a few years later. Apart from singing, he is also a successful businessman.
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