 She was thus only confirmed as mayor in late 1996 after city council members from the Croatian Peasant Party sided with the Croatian Democratic Union.In the 2000 election she was elected a member of Croatian Parliament and served until December 2003, when she was once more appointed a government minister, this time in the newly formed cabinet of Ivo Sanader, and again taking up the portfolio of Construction, Spatial Planning and Environment.She remained in her post after Sanader formed second cabinet following the 2007 parliamentary election.