Josip Predavec
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Josip Predavec (1 July 1884 in Rugvica – 14 July 1933 in Dugo Selo) was a Croatian politician, vice-president of the Croatian Peasant Party, who was murdered in 1933.
In 1929 Predavec was serving as vice-president of the Croatian Peasant Party. On January 6, King Alexander proclaimed a royal dictatorship which banned the activities of political parties such as the Peasant. Soon after, Predavec was put on a show trial for the bankruptcy of the Peasant Collective Bank.[1] At the trial he was defended by Mile Budak. Predavec was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in jail.[1]
He had been released by the time of the meeting of the Peasant-Democrat Coalition meeting held from 5 to 7 November 1932 during which the Zagreb Points was passed, the joint statement by the Croatian Peasant Party and the Independent Democratic Party laying out their opposition to the Royal Dictatorship.[2]
Predavec wrote the book Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika with Fran Novljan and Stjepan Radić, which was published by Novljan in Zagreb in 1907.[3]
