[1][2][3] Tuđman was born in Belgrade,[3] where he completed grade school, before he moved with his family to Zagreb in 1961.

In 1995, President Tuđman decorated him with the Order of Duke Domagoj, for war-time merit as a member of the political administration of the Ministry of Defence.

[3] His first venture into politics was as a co-founding member of the briefly active leftist Social Democrats of Croatia (SDSH) together with his friend Antun Vujić in 1990, but he soon switched to his father's party – the conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).

That same year he and Nenad Ivanković founded a fringe right-wing party Croatian True Revival (HIP), which later cooperated with Croatian Bloc (HB) led by Ivić Pašalić–another HDZ offshoot–but they gained no traction at the 2003 parliamentary election.

[1][2] In 2009 he was a nominally independent candidate in the presidential election, finishing seventh in the first round with 4.09% of the vote.