constituency relations occupation birth_place nationality party office profession primeminister birth_date term_start residence article_title name otherparty alma_mater
i electoral district franjo -rrb- tuđman -lrb- father -rrb- ankica tuđman -lrb- mother politician , professor belgrade , serbia , fpr yugoslavia croat croatian democratic union -lrb- since 2011 -rrb- member of parliament philosopher , information scientist zoran milanović 25 may 1946 22 december 2011 zagreb , croatia miroslav tuđman
 miroslav tuđman social revival -lrb- 2002-2011 -rrb- democrats of croatia -lrb- 1990-1992 -rrb- croatian true university of zagreb
miroslav tuđman

miroslav tuđman -lrb- born 25 may 1946 -rrb- is a croatian scientist and politician , the son of the first president franjo tuđman and his wife , ankica tuđman .
tuđman was born in belgrade -lrb- then pr serbia , fpr yugoslavia -rrb- where he completed grade school , before he moved with his family to zagreb in 1961 .
he was born on his parents 1st anniversary .
he was named `` miroslav '' for miroslav krleža who was adored by his father at that period .
he graduated from gymnasium and then from the faculty of philosophy at the university of zagreb in 1970 .
he became part of the faculty , and received a doctorate in information sciences at the same university in 1985 .
in 1989 he founded the institute for information studies at the faculty .
he participated in the croatian war of independence in 1991 , and in 1992 he became the head of the center for strategic research .
later he was the deputy head of the national security office and then the founder and leader of the first croatian intelligence agency -lrb- , his -rrb- between 1993 and 1998 , and then from 1999 to 2000 .
in 1995 , president tuđman decorated him with the order of duke domagoj , for war-time merit as a member of the political administration of the ministry of defence .
in 1998 he became a tenured professor at the faculty of philosophy .
his first political activity was as a co-founder of the social democrats of croatia together with his friend antun vujić , but he soon switched to his father 's party the croatian democratic union .
he briefly retired from politics until 2001 , when he ran for the zagreb city council and his list won 7.6 % of the vote .
the same year he and nenad ivanković founded the party croatian true revival -lrb- -rrb- , which later cooperated with croatian bloc of ivić pašalić , but gained no traction at the croatian parliamentary election , 2003 .
in 2009 he was a candidate in the croatian presidential election , 2009-2010 , where he won 4.09 % of the vote in the first round and was eliminated .
in 2011 , he became a candidate in the croatian parliamentary election , 2011 on the electoral list of the croatian democratic union .
