Josip Predavec

{{Short description|Croatian politician (1884–1933)}}

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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.[http://www.hss.hr/onama_pov.php?id=6&PHPSESSID=9e216ca23cf304b5a80dbdb354975b21 History of the HSS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224034658/http://www.hss.hr/onama_pov.php?id=6&PHPSESSID=d0a868110a7595ed882b1cdd1aff0ba9 |date=2007-12-24 }} At the trial he was defended by Mile Budak. Predavec was found guilty and sentenced to two and a half years in jail.

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.Opozicija u vreme šestojanurarske diktature 1929-1935, Todor Stojkov, p176

Predavec wrote the book Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika with Fran Novljan and Stjepan Radić, which was published by Novljan in Zagreb in 1907.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zM0iMQAACAAJ|author=Josip Predavec |author2=Franjo Novljan |author3=Stjepan Radić |title=Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika: Josip Predavec, Franjo Novljan, Stjepan Radić |date=1907|publisher=Radic, Novljan }}