Marko Vešligaj

Mayor of Pregrada is Marko Vešligaj. He was born on 17 April 1982.

He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, with a postgraduate specialist study "Adapting the EU: Project Management and EU Funds and Programs" at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb.

His political activity started in 1998 when joined the SDP Pregrada Youth Forum. From 2003 to 2005 he was the international coordinator of the Youth Forum of the Krapina-Zagorje County of SDP, and in 2005 he became vice president.

Vešligaj was a member of the Presidency of the Youth Forum of Croatia SDP from 2005 to 2010 and the president of the Youth Forum of the Krapina-Zagorje County in 2007. Today, he is a member of the Presidency of the SDP township and the vice-president of the county organization SDP Krapina-Zagorje county.

From 2005 to 2009 he worked as a councilor at the County Assembly of the County of Krapina-Zagorje and was a member of the Finance and Budget Committee, and from 2009 to 2013 he was a city councilor in the Town Hall of Pregrada and the President of the Chamber of Town Halls and Councilors of SDP-ZS -A-HSS.

Marko Vešligaj has served as Mayor of Pregrada since 2013 and is also a member of the Croatian Parliament and of the Committee on Finance and State Budget, the Committee on Local and Regional Self-Government, the Committee on Labor, Pension System and Social Partnership and the traffic, maritime and infrastructure.