Pavao Miljavac is a retired Croatian Army general.

He served as Chief of General Staff between 1996 and 1998, and between October 1998 and January 2000 he served as Croatia's Minister of Defence

Ministry of Defence (Croatia)

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of the nation's military. The ministry was established in 1990.-Ministers:-References:...

 in the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša

Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša

The Cabinet of Prime Minister Zlatko Mateša was the Croatian Government cabinet announced on 7 November 1995. It was the 6th cabinet of Croatia, and its term ended on 27 January 2000.-List of ministers and portfolios:...

, following Andrija Hebrang

Andrija Hebrang (son)

Andrija Hebrang is a Croatian physician and politician. A member of the Croatian Democratic Union , he is currently member of the Croatian Parliament...

's resignation.

He ran in the January 2000 general election

Croatian parliamentary election, 2000

Elections for the Chamber of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament were held on January 3, 2000. These were the first elections to be held after the expiration of a full term of the previous Chamber....

 on the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union

Croatian Democratic Union

The Croatian Democratic Union is the main center-right political party in Croatia. It is the biggest and strongest individual Croatian party since independence of Croatia. The Christian democratic HDZ governed Croatia from 1990 to 2000 and, in partial coalition, from 2003...

 (HDZ) ticket, and won a seat in the Croatian Parliament. However, he left the party three months later and joined the newly established splinter party Democratic Centre in April 2000, along with other prominent HDZ members such as Vesna Škare-Ožbolt

Vesna Škare-Ožbolt

Vesna Škare-Ožbolt is a Croatian politician.Before the first democratic elections in 1990, Škare-Ožbolt used to work in Croatian judiciary...

 and Mate Granić

Mate Granic

Mate Granić is a Croatian diplomat and politician who was part of the Croatian Government in much of the 1990s.Granić was born in Baška Voda in Dalmatia...

.

Miljavac left politics after 2003. He owns a wood processing facility in Novigrad na Dobri

Novigrad na Dobri

Novigrad na Dobri is a village in Karlovac County, Croatia. The name means Novigrad on the Dobra river.Across the river Dobra, there is a 14th-century castle that once belonged to the Croatian noble family Frankopan....

.