Marijana Petir (born 4 October 1975) is a Croatian politician, former Member of the European Parliament. Biography She stems from the village of Mustafina Klada in Moslavina. Petir graduated from the Faculty of Science in Zagreb and the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Zagreb. She also completed postgraduate studies in Nonprofit Management and Social Advocacy at the University of Zagreb. From 1998 to 2000, Petir led the environmental association "Greens of Moslavina", which fights against the spread of GMOs, and led the Anti-Nuclear Campaign in Moslavina, which successfully opposed the then planned construction of nuclear waste on Moslavacka Gora. In 2000–2001 she was an intern and then expert associate at Croatia's Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning. Member of the Croatian Parliament Petir entered the Croatian Parliament for the first time in 2002, at age 26 (the youngest MP), as a joint candidate from the list of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), the Liberal Party and the Croatian Social Liberal Party in the 6th constituency. She served from 16 January 2002 to 22 December 2003. From April 2003 to March 2004, Petir was hired as spokesperson for the HSS. From November 2004 to January 2005 Petir is spokeswoman for the campaign of the President of the Republic of Croatia, Stjepan Mesić in his re-election bid. From June 2005 to January 2008 Petir holds the position of Deputy Prefect of Sisak-Moslavina County. In that period, she was also the president of the HSS Regional Organization for Central Croatia. In 2007 Petir is again elected to the Croatian Parliament as representative of the 6th constituency as a joint candidate from the list of the Croatian Peasant Party and the Croatian Social Liberal Party, also chairing the Committee on Environmental Protection, and the HSS parliamentary group. She was removed from the latter position after, on 9 July 2009, she was the only MP to vote against the adoption of Croatia's antidiscrimination law (with the absention of MP Bagarić). The antidiscrimination law was opposed by Croatia's Catholic Church, which saw it as a means of promoting homosexuality, but Ivo Sanader's government managed to ensure the consent of all parliamentary parties - including Petir's HSS. At the time, right-wing Croatian media spoke of "one and a half Catholics in the Croatian Parliament." For these reasons, in 2011 Petir was named Homophobe of the Decade by Zagreb Pride. Petir retorted that she considered this to