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Miro Bulj

Croatian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ43677159
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Miro Bulj (pronounced [ˌmíːro ˈbûːʎ]; born 11 March 1972) is a Croatian politician of The Bridge. He has been a member of the Croatian Parliament since 2015, and was elected mayor of Sinj in the 2021 local elections. In October 2024, he announced his candidacy for Presidency of Croatia in the 2024 presidential election.

Early life

Bulj was born on March 11, 1972 in the village of Suhač near Sinj. His father Neno was a worker at the Dalmatinka sewing factory, while his mother Zorka took care of the household and the family farm. He is the second of three children in the family

During the Homeland War, Bulj defended Croatia from Serbian-Yugoslav aggression. He fought on several battlefields during the war, from Vrlika on August 25, 1991, until the country's final liberation in 1995.

In the spring of 1991, as a 19 year old he joined the reserve forces of the Ministry of the Interior. In October, he transferred from the Ministry of the Interior to the newly established 126th Brigade of the Croatian Army. He became an officer and was given the rank of ensign.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Miro Bulj” is croatian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Miro, Bulj and Croatian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2015, 2021, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-03-11. For this dossier, Miro, Bulj and Croatian is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “croatian politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43677159. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2015, 2021 and 2024.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Miro Bulj” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.