Jure Bilić was a Croatia

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n and Yugoslav

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 communist politician.

Bilić was born in Makarska

Makarska

Makarska is a small town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split and northwest of Dubrovnik. It has a population of 13,716 residents. Administratively Makarska has the status of a town and it is part of the Split-Dalmatia County....

 in 1922. In 1941 he joined the Yugoslav Partisans and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

After the World War II, Bilić was the State Secretary for Agriculture in Croatia. His ascendancy to high-ranking positions in the Party began in the early 1970s, after the downfall of the Croatian Spring

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 movement. He served as President of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia

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 (1978–1982), Chairman of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia

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 (1982–1983) and member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...

(1983–1986).

A party committee vote removed him from office in 1986.