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Marija Selak Raspudić

Marija Selak Raspudić is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Marija Selak Raspudić rather than just read about it. In short: Marija Selak Raspudić (née Selak; born 14 March 1982) is a Croatian politician and bioethicist who has served as member of the Croatian Parliament since 2020. She is married to Nino Raspudić.

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Reference excerpt

Marija Selak Raspudić (née Selak; born 14 March 1982) is a Croatian politician and bioethicist who has served as member of the Croatian Parliament since 2020. She is married to Nino Raspudić. Selak Raspudić started her career working at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, later becoming a commentator on multiple television shows, most famously “Peti dan”. She boasts a national political following in Croatia, placing 3rd overall in the 2024 presidential elections and 2nd overall in the 2025 Zagreb local elections, losing to incumbent Tomislav Tomašević.

Life

Early life and education She was born in 1982 in Zagreb. She has roots from the Vrgorac region in the Dalmatian Hinterland, from where her parents moved to go study in Zagreb. Her parents, Danica and Ante, met while studying in Zagreb, where they would spend their careers and start a family. She grew up with two brothers and a sister in the neighborhood of Jarun. From 5th to 8th grade, she switched to a classical elementary school where she would be learning Greek and Latin. She recalls going to Rašćane to grandma Darinka from the father's side, who taught her how to bake bread and milk a cow. She also remembers going to Runovići to grandma Ana, where she would spend her summers swimming and exploring with friends. To this day, she likes to revisit the place. After elementary school, she enrolled in the Classical Gymnasium. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2007 with a degree in philosophy and Croatian language and literature. In 2009, she enrolled in the postgraduate doctoral study in philosophy at the same faculty. In February 2010, she was a research assistant in the philosophy department on the project "Establishing Integrative Bioethics". In 2013, she received her doctorate degree. Her dissertation was entitled "Human Nature and the New Epoch".

Career From 2004 to 2005, she worked on Z1 television as a host, and then as an editor of her own cultural show. From 2007 to 2008, she was the Head of the Public Relations at Olympic International. In 2008 she was employed as a journalist and scriptwriter for the show "Navrh jezika" on Croatian Radiotelevision. In August 2013 she obtained the status of a research associate – senior assistant. In 2015, she was elected as assistant professor in the field of humanities, branch of ontology, and promoted to an associate professor in 2020. From 2015 to 2020, she worked as a commentator for the show “Peti dan” with her future husband Nino Raspudić.

Private life Marija Selak Raspudić and Nino Raspudić met working at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. They married in 2020 in a private wedding and have two children - daughter Danica and son Ilija.

Political career Selak Raspudić entered politics in 2020 when she ran as an independent on The Bridge list in the parliamentary election in the 1st constituency, where she won a mandate and entered the Croatian Parliament. She joined the Gender Equality Committee and the Physical Planning and Construction Committee. From September to October 2020, she was a substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe representing The Bridge. Selak Raspudić was supposed to be one of The Bridge candidates for the 2024 European Parliament election together with Marin Miletić. The problem was that the two disagreed over abortion rights - Marija Selak Raspudić believed that abortion is a right, which didn’t sit well with Miletić. She left the party in April that year together with her husband. She was reelected to Parliament in 2024. At the start of her second term, she joined three committees: the European Affairs Committee, the Labor, Retirement System and Social Partnership Committee and the Environment and Nature Conservation Committee.

Candidacy for president

In July 2024, Marija Selak Raspudić announced her intention to run for President of the Republic of Croatia as a moderate independent, and in December collected enough signatures for an official candidacy. From 11 September to 21 December, she got €70,295 from donations, with the biggest donations coming from companies. She campaigned on being independent from any party or ideology, modernizing the military and fighting for the rights of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She got 150,435 votes or 9.25% of the vote, placing her third overall, behind the favorites Zoran Milanović and Dragan Primorac.

Candidacy for Mayor of Zagreb

Talks about her candidacy began after the presidential election, especially after a party by the name "Marija Selak Raspudić - Independent list" was registered. Shortly before her announcement, several billboards popped up with a slogan “Let the better win”. On 8 April 2025, Marija Selak Raspudić announced her intention to run for Mayor of Zagreb. After the announcement, she posted on her Facebook page a short video of incumbent Mayor Tomislav Tomašević and We Can! coordinator Sandra Benčić confidently announcing a victory, before ending the video with a smile saying: “Haven't you miscalculated a little bit?” On 25 April, she and her team, including her deputy mayor candidates Milka Rimac Bilušić and Damir Firšt, presented the party program for the city at the Westin hotel. By 29 April, she collected 7,000 signatures, enough for an official candidacy. Overall, she raised €55,554 from donations and spent €67,237 on her campaign. The polls had her in 2nd place ever since she announced her bid, with Mislav Herman from the Croatian Democratic Union trailing behind. She got 44,645 votes (15.67% of the vote) in the election on 18 May, and since no candidate got over 50%, a runoff was called for 1 June. In the following week of campaigning, Selak Raspudić would go on to have three debates with Tomašević. In the runoff, which only saw a 34.43% voter turnout, Marija Selak Raspudić got 96,590 votes (42.44%), opposed to Tomašević's 130,996, granting him a second term. She congratulated him soon after.

Political positions Publicly, she declares herself neither a member of the right wing nor the left wing. She stated that the latter would give her an “unwanted position of moral superiority”, and believes that the former would be used against her as an insult or to dismiss her opinion.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Marija Selak Raspudić

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Marija Selak Raspudić claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Marija Selak Raspudić before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Marija Selak Raspudić ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Marija Selak Raspudić

In research: Marija Selak Raspudić appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Marija Selak Raspudić in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Marija Selak Raspudić is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1982 births, 21st-century Croatian philosophers, 21st-century Croatian women politicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Marija Selak Raspudić outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Marija Selak Raspudić in simple terms?

Marija Selak Raspudić (née Selak; born 14 March 1982) is a Croatian politician and bioethicist who has served as member of the Croatian Parliament since 2020. She is married to Nino Raspudić.

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