title: 2000 in Croatia
text: # 2000 in Croatia
  
  The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Croatia.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President:
     * until 2 February: Vlatko Pavletić (acting)
     * 2 February-18 February: Zlatko Tomčić (acting)
     * starting 19 February: Stjepan Mesić
  * Prime Minister: Zlatko Mateša (until 27 January), Ivica Račan (starting 27 January)
  
  ## Events
  
  ### January
  
  * January 3 – The 2000 general election held, won by a centre-left coalition of Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) and Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS)
  * January 24 – First round of the 2000 presidential election held. Stjepan Mesić and Dražen Budiša win 41% and 28% of votes respectively, and enter the run-off.
  
  ### February
  
  * February 7 – Presidential election run-off, won by Stjepan Mesić with 56% of the vote.
  * February 18 – Stjepan Mesić formally inaugurated as President of Croatia.
  
  ### May
  
  * May 28 – Nova TV, the first national commercial television network, begins broadcast.
  
  ## Arts and literature
  
  * February 19 – Goran Karan won Dora 2000 to become Croatia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song "Kad zaspu anđeli".
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 14 – Antun Nalis, actor
  * March 9 – Ivo Robić, singer
  * August 15 – Ena Begović, actress
  * October 11 – Matija Ljubek, canoeist
  * November 30 – Vladimir Anić, linguist
  * December 7 – Vlado Gotovac, poet and liberal politician (born 1930)
  