Valter Flego

Valter Flego (born 15 August 1972) is a Croatian politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia since July 2019. Previously he had served as the 4th prefect of Istria County from 2013 to 2019, as well as he served three terms as mayor of the town of Buzet. He is a member of the liberal Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) party.

Valter Flego
Member of the European Parliament for Croatia
Assumed office
2 July 2019
4th Prefect of Istria County
In office
7 June 2013 – 2 July 2019
PresidentIvo Josipović
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
Prime MinisterZoran Milanović
Tihomir Orešković
Andrej Plenković
Preceded byIvan Jakovčić
Succeeded byFabrizio Radin
Mayor of Buzet
(3 terms)
In office
2001–2013
Succeeded bySiniša Žulić
Personal details
Born (1972-08-15) 15 August 1972
Koper, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia
Political partyIstrian Democratic Assembly
Spouse(s)
Branka Flego
(
m. 2002)
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Rijeka
Profession
  • Politician
  • mechanical engineer

Early life and education

He finished elementary school and first two years of high school in Buzet, and 3rd and 4th grade in Rijeka. After graduation he gained qualification of a machine technician. In 1991 he enrolled in the study of mechanical engineering on the University of Rijeka, where he graduated in 1996 with special honors and became a mechanical engineer. During his studies he received Rector's Award of the University of Rijeka as the best student of the Technical Faculty as well as Truffle Award for Excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities from the town of Buzet.[1]

Career

After finishing studies, Flego got a job in the company Istrian waterworks, and in the same time enrolled in the postgraduate studies on the Rijeka Faculty of Economics which he finished in year 2000 acquiring a scientific master's degree in Economics.

After 2001 local elections Flego became the Mayor of Buzet. After 2005 local elections he was unanimously re-elected mayor by the city council. At the first direct local elections that were held in 2009 Flego received over 84% of the voters, thus achieving the best result out of all candidates for mayor in Croatia.

In 2013 local elections Flego, who had support from IDS-HNS-LD-Green party, ran against Damir Kajin, who had support of SDP-HSU-SDSS-HSLS, for the position of Prefect of Istrian county. Eventually he won with 47,25% to 36,24% of votes.[2]

Personal life

Flego is married since 2002 to Branka Flego, an elementary school teacher. They have two sons, Dinko and Ivo.

gollark: I *should* have one, given that I've ended up getting up at 1am (time zone confusion), but I can barely get to sleep anyway most of the time.
gollark: Maybe one day TJ09 will refactor it, and the bugs will finally depart, partially.
gollark: Because it's All Broken!
gollark: (what? it's consistent with *other* bugginess...)
gollark: Perhaps TJ09 was implementing a different shard-getting/limiting mechanic but then it broke horribly and he didn't notice during testing.

References
  1. "O meni". Valter Flego. 2012-12-22. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
  2. "Kukuriku vlast se prepolovila u Istri: HNS podržao IDS-ova Flegu - Večernji.hr". Vecernji.hr. 2013-01-09. Retrieved 2016-04-29.
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