Anja Šimpraga

Anja Šimpraga (Serbian Cyrillic: Ања Шимпрага; born 23 July 1987) is a Croatian politician serving as a Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia and a minister without portfolio in charge of social affairs and human and minority rights from 2022 to 2024.

Šimpraga was born on 23 July 1987 in Knin, in the SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia.

[2] Šimpraga later returned to Croatia and became a member of the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) at the age of 18.

She was sworn in as a member of the Croatian Parliament following the appointment of SDSS MP Boris Milošević as a government minister.

Due to the lack of discourse in Croatia on civilian Serb victims of Operation Storm, Šimpraga's speech was widely dubbed "important", "powerful" and "historical".