Mato Franković

Mato Franković (; born 23 February 1982) is a Croatian politician who has been mayor of Dubrovnik since 2017. A member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), he served as a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2016 to 2017, and is serving since 2020.

Early life and education Franković was born in Dubrovnik. He finished elementary school in on the Pelješac peninsula, and first three grades of high economic school in his hometown.

Franković was also chairman of Hotel Maestral's advisory board (2006–2012). At the regular election assembly of the Croatian Tourist Board (HTZ) in 2016, he was elected to the tourist board of the HTZ, the so-called tourist government of the country.

Franković served as a member of Dubrovnik-Neretva County in three terms, and as president of the Dubrovnik City Council from 2015 until January 2017.

In the 2016 Croatian parliamentary election, Franković was elected as a member of the Croatian Parliament and until 9 June 2017, when he took the mayor role, served as member of the parliament's Committee on Local and Regional Self-Government, the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation. He was reelected as mayor in the 2021 local elections.

In the 2020 Croatian parliamentary election, Franković was reelected to the Croatian Parliament and became member of the parliament's Committee on Tourism and the Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation. The event honoured fallen Croatian Defence Forces soldier Mate Vučko Čigra and was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Tomo Medved and other officials. Franković subsequently explaining that the greeting deserves condemnation when associated to the quisling Ustaše regime but asserted his belief that the phrase symbolized legitimate resistance in the 1990s.