Mato Arlović (born 4 October 1952) is a Croatian lawyer and former politician who has been Associate Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia since 21 July 2009, had previously served five consecutive terms as a member of the Croatian Parliament between 1990 and 2007 for the center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia.
Mato Arlović was born on 4 October 1952 in a Croat family in the municipality of Orašje in Bosnia and Herzegovina where he finished elementary and high school.
In the same year, he got employed at the Županja Boris Kidrič Sugar Factory where he worked until 1975.
Arlović left active politics in 2007 after, at the time, newly elected SDP president Zoran Milanović put him at the 3rd place of the SDP electoral list in the 5th electoral district, which he took as an offense.
[2][3] On 21 July 2009, he was elected Justice of the Constitutional Court of Croatia, and was reelected for a second 8-year term on 11 October 2017.