Milka Planinc

Milka Planinc ( Malada; ; 21 November 1924 – 7 October 2010) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986. She was the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was also the first female head of government of a diplomatically recognized socialist state in Europe. Planinc rejected Dubajić's accusations, calling them political speculation. She personally advocated that these crimes be investigated, and judicially and scientifically processed.

In 1950, she married an engineer named Zvonko Planinc. She remained the Leader of the League of Communists of Croatia until 1982.

When Tito died in 1980, he left a plan for a rotating presidency, with the leader coming from each federal unit in turn. On 29 April 1982, the Federal Conference of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia approved a list of ministers submitted by Planinc, and on 15 May 1982 a joint session of the National Assembly's two houses named her head of the Federal Executive Council; thus she became prime minister. She became the first woman to occupy such a high post in the country's 64-year history. On 12 February 1986 Planinc's government submitted a request to the International Monetary Fund for advanced surveillance. The request was approved a month later. Her term ended in May 1986, and before long she became a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.

Later life Planinc spent the rest of her time living through Yugoslav Wars with the collapse of communism in Europe. In 1993 her husband died, and in 1994 her son Zoran committed suicide.

From the late 1990s until her death, Planinc required the use of a wheelchair and rarely left her home. She resided in Zagreb until her death on 7 October 2010, aged 85. She was interred at the Zagreb's Mirogoj Cemetery.