Goran Iric is a Kresimirian politician and member of the Iric political dynasty, who served as Mayor of Bistrica during the early Northern Power era.
Iric won the first mayoral election held after the formal merger of the old Bistrice People’s Party (BPP) into the Northern Power (NP) coalition. Representing the dynastic continuity of the northern regionalist movement, he defeated a Blue Dawn “modernizer” candidate whom voters rejected as a puppet of the capital.
By the late 1970s, as Ante Brov’s Blue Dawn government slowly liberalized labour policy, Iric retired as mayor. Northern Power recognized it needed a populist enforcer to hold Bistrica against Sinj’s centralizing ambitions and formally backed Gabriel Ekdahl as his successor — the union boss who would dominate northern labour politics for the next two decades.