All you need to know about Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.
Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has won many admirers for own performance at the World Cup final in Moscow, where she stood in driving rain at the closing ceremony, smiled and hugged every player from both teams. Croatia lost to France 4-2 in a thrilling final on Sunday. Grabar Kitarovic, clad in a red-and white Croatia soccer shirt, stood on the podium with Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron when the medals were given to the players.
Here are 7 facts about her:
1. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic with Croatian Coach
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She is Croatia’s youngest president and also its first female president.
2. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic with Vladimir Putin
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She is Croatia’s youngest president and also its first female president.
3. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic with Macron
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She is a rockstar academician as well, with a master’s degree in International Relations from Faculty of Political Science at University of Zagreb. She spent a semester in the US after entering a student exchange program and graduated from Los Alamos High School in 1986.
4. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic
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She speaks English, Spanish, Croatian, and Portuguese, and also understands Italian, French and German.
5. Kolinda with Trump
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Kolinda was accused of being a Nazi sympathiser. On July 2016, Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was pictured posing for a photo during her Canada trip, which showed a symbol of her country’s wartime pro-Nazi regime
6. Kitarovic with her husband
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She is married to former Presidential candidate Jakov Kitarovic since 1996 and has two children.
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She is a practising Roman Catholic but still supports LGBT rights and is pro-abortion. She signed the Paris agreement in 2016.
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