Question: Facts: - successor: tonino picula - party: croatian democratic union - deputy: ivo sanader - primeminister: nikica zlatko matesa -lrb- 1995 & ndash ; 2000 -rrb- valentic -lrb- 1993 & ndash ; 1995 -rrb- - office: minister of foreign affairs - predecessor: zdenko Skrabalo - term end: 27 january 2000 - term start: 28 may 1993 - birth date: 19 september 1947 - name: mate granic - nationality: croatian - image: mate granic n d 060509.jpg - birth place: baska voda , fpr yugoslavia - alma mater: university of zagreb -lrb- school of medicine -rrb- Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mate granic .
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mate granic -lrb- born 19 september 1947 -rrb- is a croatian diplomat and politician who was part of the croatian government in much of the 1990s .granic was born in baska voda in dalmatia -lrb- then pr croatia , fpr yugoslavia -rrb- .he graduated from a gymnasium in split and the medical faculty of the university of zagreb to become a doctor by profession .mate granic served as the foreign minister of croatia from 1993 until 2000 .he was a member of the croatian democratic union -lrb- hdz -rrb- and a close associate of franjo tuman .as foreign minister , granic helped negotiate a peace treaty between croatia , bosnia and serbia and he visited serbia in 1996 .granic was considered to be a leader of hdz moderates .his objective as foreign minister was to justify croatian policies towards bosnia and krajina and protecting croatia from un sanctions .he did that successfully , which combined with his mild nature made him one of the most popular hdz politicians .his general popularity made him a natural choice for party 's presidential candidate after the tuman 's death .in january 2000 , granic entered the presidential election , but was eliminated in the first round , coming in third place with 22.5 % of the vote .he was not a great campaigner nor a natural populist , which probably led to his crushing defeat .when a new cabinet took office later that month , now with the hdz without the presidency or control of the parliament , granic lost his post as foreign minister .afterwards , granic 's led a splinter faction of hdz to form the democratic centre -lrb- '' demokratski centar '' -rrb- .granic believed that hdz will be completely overtaken by radicals led by ivic pasalic , former tuman 's interior politics consultant , and that 's why he founded a new party .however , not all moderates followed granic , and in 2002 they finally won a bitter inner-party struggle with far right .granic 's former protege ivo sanader became party 's leader , and all that made dc politically indistinct from hdz...