| Milanka Opačić | |
| Office: | Minister of Social Policy and Youth |
| Primeminister: | Zoran Milanović |
| Term Start: | 23 December 2011 |
| Term End: | 22 January 2016 |
| Successor: | Bernardica Juretić |
| Birth Date: | 17 April 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Children: | 1 |
Milanka Opačić (in Croatian pronounced as /mǐlaːŋka ǒpatʃitɕ/; born 17 April 1968) is a Croatian politician who served as a Minister of Social Welfare and Youth at centre-left Cabinet of Zoran Milanović from 2011 to 2016. She served as one of four vice-presidents of the Social Democratic Party, the main centre-left political party in the Sabor. She was first elected to Sabor in the 1992 parliamentary election, and was reelected in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2016.
Opačić was born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, then part of SFR Yugoslavia, where she attended elementary and secondary school. In 1990, inspired by Ivica Račan, she became a member of the Social Democratic Party. She studied political science at the University of Zagreb, graduating in 1991. In 1992, Opačić became the party's vice-president and entered the Sabor as a representative of the Serbs of Croatia.[1] She was re-elected to the Sabor in 2000, 2003 and 2007. She was one of the closest associates of former Prime Minister Zoran Milanović.
In September 2018, she left SDP and joined Bandić Milan 365 - Labour and Solidarity Party in August 2019.[2]
Opačić is a single mother. She adopted a daughter named Lana in 2003.[3] [4] She is an atheist.[5] Despite starting her career as a representative of the Serb minority in the Sabor, Opačić stated in Nedjeljom u dva that she does not label her nationality.[6]