"Our love is not from yesterday," Josip Manolic said describing the relationship.
Highlights
- Josip Manolic is also ex-Croatian prime minister
- He has tied the knot with a woman 36 years his junior
- The couple married in April but kept their wedding a secret
One of former Yugoslavia's top spies and ex-Croatian prime minister Josip Manolic has married aged 96 -- tying the knot with a woman 36 years his junior, local media reported Tuesday.
"Our love is not from yesterday," Manolic told the 24 Sata daily describing the relationship with his 60-year-old wife.
"We've been living together for several years," he said.
"It was senseless to continue to live in a common-law marriage. We are serious people of serious age."
Manolic and Mirjana Ribaric married in April, but the pair kept the wedding secret until it was revealed by media.
Manolic's first wife died in a fire in 2003.
Formerly the head of Yugoslavia's secret service (UDBA), Manolic went on to be Croatia's prime minister from August 1990 to July 1991.
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