Background
Pašalić was born in Šuica, Tomislavgrad.
Pašalić was born in Šuica, Tomislavgrad.
He attended high school in Zagreb and in 1980 he entered Faculty of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. He graduated in 1986 and gained master"s degree at the Faculy of Medicine at the University of Mostar, where he specialised internal medicine.
He started to work as a doctor in hospital in Ivanec where he worked for two years, after which he was employed at the Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis in Klenovnik where he worked as a director as well. In 1992 he become a director of the Prison Hospital in Zagreb. Pašalić was one of the founders of the HDZ in Varaždin and Ivanec in 1989.
Pašalić was an advisor of the Croatian president Franjo Tuđmanitoba
He was referred to as the number two man in the country. In 1996, Pašalić was instrumental in the effort to suppress Radio 101.
In the late 1990s, Pašalić became target of a media campaign linking him to Miroslav Kutle, Vinko Grubišić, Ninoslav Pavić and others They allegedly entered into a series of secret partnerships which resulted in the formation a company called "Grupo" in 1996, which was influential in the early operation of Nova television, founded in 1999.
After Tuđman"s death, Pašalić"s reputation and influence in the HDZ was decreasing.
After the defeat of HDZ at the 2000 parliamentary elections, in 2002 Pašalić formally challenged the new HDZ leader Ivo Sanader for party leadership, but ultimately failed, on a dramatic party convention, where Slavonian party politicians including Vladimir Šeks and Branimir Glavaš played an influential role in Pašalić"s defeat. Soon after, Pašalić left the HDZ. He formed his own party called Croatian Bloc (Hrvatski blok, "HB"). In the 2005 presidential election, Ivić Pašalić ran as the HB candidate and finished seventh, with 1.82% of the vote.
Pašalić is owner of several firms such as Kapital Konzulting and Odra Servis.
During the time he was president of the Executive Committee of the HDZ and member of the party"s presidency.
Between 1990 and 2002 Pašalić was a member of parliament, elected as such for three terms. He remained a member of parliament until the end of 2003.