Furio Radin


Furio Radin is a Croatian politician who is currently serving as the Member of the Croatian Parliament for the Italian national minority, an office he has held since 7 September 1992. He has also been the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities since 2000 and one of the Deputy Speakers of Parliament since 19 June 2017. Radin is the longest-serving Member of Parliament in Croatian history, with a service lasting, as of.
Radin was first elected to parliament in the 1992 election and was subsequently reelected to eight more terms, in the 1995, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2020 elections respectively. Although he is formally an independent, he has closely cooperated with the liberal regionalist Istrian Democratic Assembly party, in whose parliamentary club he also sits.
He is the elder brother of Fabrizio Radin, the Acting Prefect of Istria County since 2019.

Early life and education

Furio Radin was born on 1 June 1950 in Pula, where he also attended elementary and high school. He earned a degree in psychology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and later gained a PhD in the same field of study. During his youth, he was active in the Croatian branch of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, where he was responsible for the scientific activity of young people.

Political career

Radin was first elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 1992 parliamentary election, as a representative for the Italian national minority, and was reelected in the next 7 elections. He did not actively campaign for the 2011 parliamentary election because he was the sole candidate. Between 1993 and 2001, he served as councillor in the Assembly of Istria County. Since 2000, Radin has presided over Parliament's Committee on Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities, having been elected to that function six times by 2017.

Personal life

Radin is married to sociologist Helena Štimac-Radin who is Chairwoman of the Office for Gender Equality of the Croatian Government. His wife was a member of the Croatian Social Liberal Party between 1990 and 1997 and of the Liberal Party, in which she served as a Vice President, between 1997 and 2006. The couple has no children. Furio Radin does, however, have two daughters, Petra and Paola, from his first marriage with Jasna Petrović. His brother Fabrizio, a member of the Istrian Democratic Assembly party, is the president of the Executive Committee of the Italian Union in Croatia and the Acting Prefect of Istria County, since 6 July 2019. Fabrizio was previously also a three-time Deputy Mayor of Pula and the Deputy Prefect of Istria County, from 2017 until 2019.