Ivan Malenica (politician)

Malenica was born in Šibenik on 21 July 1985, where he attended elementary and high school.[1] He graduated from the Split Faculty of Law in 2008. In 2013 Malenica was a student at the postgraduate doctoral study of the Zagreb Faculty of Law in the direction of public law and administration.

His family is originally from the village of Brištani, one of the seven villages in the Miljevci area near Drniš, in Šibenik-Knin County. His father, Ante, was a long-time director of Ceste Šibenik d.o.o., and his uncle, Frane, is one of the founders of the Croatian People's Party's Šibenik branch and current director of the Vodovod i odvodnja d.o.o., a water supply company and drainage.

In 2016 Malenica became a candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) for the State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Administration in the period when Andrej Plenković came to power, but Josipa Rimac took over the role. In 2018, after the election of the HDZ's Šibenik-Knin County branch, he became president of the HDZ board of governors. He was also in charge of advising Prime Minister Plenković on issues related to the public administration, then received the unanimous support of the party president and the party's national council.

After a series of real estate affairs, Lovro Kuščević resigned as Minister of Public Administration whereupon on 17 July 2019, Plenković appointed Malenica for the Kuščević's successor. He stressed on that occasion that he will do everything to make the public administration serve the citizens and that they will realize their rights and particular interests as soon as possible and with as little financial resources as possible. A very important project and means that will enable all this to be considered digitalization of public administration.[2][3]

• Cabinet of Andrej Plenković