Anušić also served as a member of the Croatian Parliament between 2015 and 2020, and was the mayor of Antunovac from 2005 to 2017 as well.[2] Originally, he became a member of the Croatian Party of Rights in 1993, but was not politically active in the 1990s. He was politically independent between 2009 and 2011, before joining the HDZ.[3][4][5]