Career
Matulović-Dropulić served as the mayor of Zagreb in two mandates - first an appointment for a couple of months in 1996 during the Zagreb Crisis, and again after the 1997 elections, until 2000. She was the first female mayor. Since 2003 she has served as a minister in the government of Ivo Sanader and now Jadranka Kosor.
In 2007 she was also elected on the HDZ parliamentary list but remained a government minister.
