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	Croatian Democratic Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Voting system was tailored to favour two strongest parties and it was assumed that Croatian voters would opt for ruling Communists, rebranded in to Social Democratic Party of Croatia, as lesser evil than HDZ which was described as "party of dangerous intentions".
		On the elections this proved to be miscalculation, because Croatian people saw the very extremism of HDZ not only as the way to get rid of Communism and Yugoslavia, but also as the proper answer to rampaging Serb nationalism embodied by Slobodan Milošević.
		As it was a strong advocate of the Croatian independence, the HDZ has been quite unpopular with the members of Serbian minority who have largely opposed Croatia's independence wanting to see Croatia remain inside the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_Democratic_Union (1555 words)

	Franjo Tudjman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Croatian Spring was a reformist movement that was actually set in motion by Tito and Croatian party chief Bakarić in the climate of growing liberalism in the late 60s.
		During the turbulent 1971, Tuđman's role was that of the dissident who questioned the central myth of modern Serbian nationalism, the number of victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp, as well as the role of centralism in Yugoslav and the continuation of ideology of unitary "Yugoslavism".
		The primary goal is establishment of the Croatian nation-state; therefore all ideological disputes from the past should be thrown away.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Franjo_Tudjman (2214 words)

	Croatian Democratic Union - Encyclopedia, History and Biography
		Although Croatia is currently negotiating its entry into the European Union, the HDZ is already a member of the European People's Party which is the strongest faction in the European Parliament.
		Croatian Democratic Union won the first free multi-party elections organised in 1990 which enabled it to form the government.
		The Sanader-led government finalized the implementation of the basic criteria for joining the European Union, such as the return of refugees to their homes, rebuilding houses damaged in the war, improving minority rights by including minority representatives in the government, cooperating with the ICTY, and continuing to consolidate the Croatian economy.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HDZ (698 words)

	Independent Democratic Serbian Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Independent Democratic Serbian Party (Samostalna demokratska srpska stranka, SDSS – Cyrillic: Самостална демократска српска странка) is a political party of Serbs living in Croatia.
		The party is led by Vojislav Stanimirović and aims to facilitate the return of the Serbs who left Croatia in 1995 when the Croatian military and police conquered the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina and put that territory back under Croatian control.
		After the elections, the Independent Democratic Serbian Party made an agreement with the winning HDZ party (Croatian Democratic Union) led by Ivo Sanader in which they agree on fulfilling several SDSS demands such as refugee return, strengthening of national equality, judicial reform and cooperation with neighbouring countries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Independent_Democratic_Serbian_Party (324 words)

	Croatia - Political Parties
		Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was founded by Franjo Tudjman in 1989 originally as a platform-movement-like party but was soon transformed into a nationalist movement.
		Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) was founded in 1904 under Stjepan Radic and Vlatko Macek and represented roughly 80 to 90 percent of the Croatian electorate during the period between World War I and World War II.
		Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) was founded in 1990, and, despite its keen sense of nationalism and xenophobia, the HSP did not present a substantial threat to the HDZ’s power base largely because it has had a tendency to fragment.
	www.unc.edu /~vineyard/politicalparties.htm (610 words)

	The FAME: Croatia - Political Flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The flag is Croatian tricolour with party emblem in the middle - emblem consisting of a shield divided by a white bend sinister with balck letters HSP, the upper field being chequy red and white and lower field is blue.
		The flag is green white green, the white stripe bearing of the triple width of each of the green stripes, with a green crescent whose horns touch vertical line one third of the flag length from the hoist.
		The flag is the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle, consisting of initials SDH and a red rose.
	jagor.srce.hr /fame/descr/hr-polit.html (2010 words)

	Croatia (01/00)
		Flag: The Croatian National flag is a red-white-blue tricolor (arranged horizontally in that order) with the coat of arms (13 red squares and 12 white squares arranged in a 5x5 checkerboard pattern).
		Croatian politics will be dominated by the legislative elections that will occur at the end of this year.
		The Croatian legislature is the Sabor (Parliament), a bicameral body consisting of a Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Zupanije (counties).
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/c/9203.htm (2404 words)

	News in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Croatian President Stjepan Mesiæ said on Monday that Ivo Sanader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was the likeliest premier-designate and that consultations on the set-up of the new government were expected to begin in a week's time.
		He congratulated the Croatian Democratic Union on the good result achieved at Sunday's parliamentary elections, and called upon the party to form the new government with potential coalition partners as soon as possible.
		The largest Croatian pharmaceutical firm Pliva held in London on Tuesday the fourth presentation of its reasearch and development the goal of which is to inform investors and analysts about the latest events linked to its portfolio.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2003/11/25/ENG.html (1817 words)

	Croatia's Parties Begin Talks to Form Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With nearly all votes counted, the Croatian Democratic Union is expected to win 73 of the 140 seats in the parliament, while the ruling Social Democrat-led coalition has won 63 seats.
		Croatian President Stipe Mesic said that Ivo Sanader, leader of the Croatian Democratic Union is "the most likely candidate" to form the new cabinet.
		The Union leader, Ivo Sanader, is trying to distance the party from its past, saying it is now a political force aiming to unite the population, not divide it.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/nov03/hed6122.shtml (369 words)

	News in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to preliminary results the Croatian Democratic Union leads in the general elections in eight of constituencies with an estimated 65 seats, while the Social Democratic Party leads in two constituencies with 31 seats.
		Croatian President Stjepan Mesiæ said on Sunday that consultations on the future make-up of the government were not necessary on Monday, but after the election process and count had been completed.
		The leader of the Croatian Democratic Union Ivo Sanader said that the preliminary results were a clear indicator that the HDZ should receive the mandate for creating a new government.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2003/11/24/ENG.html (899 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		On January 3, 70 percent of the electorate went to the polls, and CDU suffered a humiliating defeat.
		CDU's propagation of a monolithic ideology of nationalism, in a fashion reminiscent of communism, may also explain its popular decline.
		CDU focused its campaign around the dead Tudjman, hoping his memory would attract voters; this ploy did not seem to draw many votes.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol9num_onehalf/constitutionwatch/croatia.html (1958 words)

	croatia:Attacks on the Press in 1996
		The Croatian Telecommunications Council for the second time denied Radio 101, a local station in the Zagreb area, a permanent license to use the FM frequency it has been broadcasting on since 1983.
		The charges were filed under Article 71 of the Croatian Criminal Code, which forbids the publication or broadcasting of information deemed to be false and considered injurious to the "honor and reputation" of public officials.
		The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), the ruling party of Croatia, brought libel charges against Pukanic, editor in chief of the weekly independent newspaper Nacional, and Jurdana, a columnist for the paper.
	www.cpj.org /attacks96/countries/europe/cases/croatialeg.html (1479 words)

	Croatian Democratic Union - Coordination of Australia and New Zealand
		The Croatian Democratic Union assesses that the conclusions of the EU Council of Ministers and discussion led on 16 March 2005, are representing a further step forward towards the convening of the Intergovernmental Conference and the opening of negotiations for full membership of Croatia in the European Union.
		The Croatian Democratic Union, in accordance with its program, proceeds to work for Croatia's membership in the EU, but considers public discussions regarding advantages and disadvantages of full membership in the EU as legitimate and useful.
		Croatian Foreign Affairs Minister, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who participated in the EPP Political Bureau, thanked the EPP for this initiative "that comes at a crucial moment for Croatia and the entire South-East European region", she said.
	www.hdzausnz.com /index2.html (2136 words)

	Croatian Democratic Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The rebel Serbs in the Krajina see HDZ as a chauvinist party and accuse it of orchestrating ethnic cleansing during the Yugoslav wars, though much the same can be said of their SDS as well.
		As the general independence enthusiasm gradually disappeared and harsh economic conditions started to sink in, the HDZ lost the 2000 elections to the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and its coalition partners, despite remaining the strongest single party in the country.
		Several businessmen who became tycoons under HDZ were trialled and incarcerated for various abuses, though in general the privatization process implemented by the HDZ, which many consider suboptimal, wasn't significantly altered.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /c/cr/croatian_democratic_union.html (258 words)

	Talk:Croatian Democratic Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As for the controversial privatisation cases, it should be noted that some of those who are generally described as tycoons are linked or associated with the Social Democratic Party.
		The notable examples include Mr Todoric and Mr Fizulic (the latter was an HSLS minister in the Racan cabinet) of whom both claim to have earned their riches in the liberalisation processes of the late 80s.
		We must have in mind that many Croatians are very skeptical about foreign court judge Croatian citizens abroad, even though Croatia was one of the founders of ICTY.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Croatian_Democratic_Union (573 words)

	Croatia - Government
		An important fact about Croatian governmental policy is that the voting age is 16 for those who are employed; otherwise, it is 18.
		Croatian law permits ethnic Croats who live outside of Croatia to vote in Croatian elections, even if they have never lived in Croatia and are citizens of other countries.
		The current Prime Minister is Ivica Racan of the Socialist Democratic Party, The Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic of the Croatian Social Liberal Party, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs is Tonino Picula also of the Socialist Democratic Party.
	www.unc.edu /~vineyard/government.htm (727 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Members of the Croatian Democratic Union (CDU) and their “gangster” partners have largely pilfered the peace dividend that the Dayton Accords could have brought to Croatia.
		Now, with two Croatian parties in Bosnia-Herzegovina, if Croatia continues to support only the local CDU organization, that support would be revealed as a party interest and not a national and state benefit financed from the Croatian budget, as it has been justified in the past.
		The CDU vice president and vice president of the parliament, Vladimir Seks, accused the Court of having passed a political judgment that had nothing to do with the incompatibility of the law with the Constitution.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol7num3/constitutionwatch/croatia.html (1316 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The overthrow of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) after ten years in office was the first time a ruling party was voted out of office anywhere in the former Yugoslavia.
		Zlatko Lagumdzija, president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was especially cheerful in his epistolary congratulations to Social Democratic Party of Croatia, which won the majority of parliamentary seats.
		In the years since the fighting, the Croatian HDZ was almost the only financier of the Bosnian Croats, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on Bosnian Croat institutions, army and police.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20000111_3_eng.txt (756 words)

	Croatian PM Warns of Opponents' Ploys (phillyBurbs.com) \| Europe
		The opposition Croatian Democratic Union of the late president, Franjo Tudjman, has a good chance of unseating Prime Minister Ivica Racan's center-left governing coalition, in the Nov. 23 elections.
		Known by its Croatian acronym, HDZ, the opposition party has publicly said it supports the goal of joining the European Union and has toned down its nationalist rhetoric ahead.
		It is strongly against the court's call for the arrest of Ante Gotovina, a wartime Croat general suspected of atrocities whose detention and extradition for trial by the Hague court is a precondition for EU membership.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-11072003-192846.html (618 words)

	CER \| Croatia: Split - Going to extremes
		The presence of Croatian nationalists in this luscious Dalmatian seaside city is becoming reminiscent of the various comebacks staged by the White Army from the Crimea peninsula during the 1917 to 1921 Russian Revolution.
		Observers say former ruling party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and other assorted nationalists are well-organised, staging continuous pickets, rallies and roadblocks in support of fugitive Croatian Army General Ante Gotovina, ex-general Mirko Norac and others threatened with extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague.
		According to the Croatian Helsinki Committee, the final result of Operation Storm was the deaths of at least 410 Serb civilians, 150,000 to 200,000 Serb refugees and 22,000 systematically destroyed homes to prevent their return.
	www.ce-review.org /01/31/groner31.html (1725 words)

	ABC News: Poll Says Mesic Wins Second Croatian Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Croatian President Stipe Mesic talks to the media after casting his ballot at a polling station in Zagreb, Croatia, on Sunday Jan. 16, 2005.
		It also would be a blow to Sanader's center-right Croatian Democratic Union, which returned to power a year ago, and could indicate a trend ahead of local elections in spring.
		Sanader's Croatian Democratic Union party governed Croatia almost single-handedly during the autocratic 1990-2000 rule of the late President Franjo Tudjman, whom Mesic succeeded.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=417265 (692 words)

	Croatia -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1102 a pact between his successor and the Croatian tribal chiefs established a personal union of Croatia and Hungary under the Hungarian monarch.
		In 1527 the Croatian feudal lords agreed to accept the Hapsburgs as their kings in return for common defense and retention of their privileges.
		Croatian nationalism persisted in Communist Yugoslavia, however, and the Ustachi and other émigré nationalist groups remained active abroad.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/croatia_history.asp (1494 words)

	Croatian Democratic Union Youth - Coordination of Australia & New Zealand
		Croatian Democratic Union Youth - Coordination of Australia and New Zealand
		With two categories, under 15 years of age, and between 15 and 25, contestants will have a chance to perform in front of a live audience with finalists being selected by a panel of judges and the audience present.
		The main criteria for contestants entering, is to sing a song in Croatian from a Croatian artist/group, and that they fall within one of the two age categories.
	www.mhdz.com.au /index2.html (580 words)

	Three NY Times articles about the rebirth of Croatian fascism
		The call and response -- the Croatian equivalent of "Sieg!" "Heil!" -- was the wartime greeting used by supporters of the fascist Independent State of Croatia, which governed the country for most the Second World War and murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Croatian resistance fighters.
		The Croatian currency is the kuna, the same instituted by the fascists.
		Croatian Fascists, known as the Ustashe, fought alongside German troops against Serbs, Muslims and Croats trying desperately, and vainly, to block the Nazi conquest of Yugoslavia.
	www.tenc.net /archive/dynamited.htm (3248 words)

	Freedom in the World 2001 - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A center-left coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the HSLS won 71 seats with nearly 49 percent of the vote.
		The Croatian government thinks it is capable of doing it, and we want to prove it.” However, in November, a judge postponed the trial of General Mirko Norac for the fifth time.
		Although the constitution states that “entrepreneurial and market freedom are the basis of the economic system,” Croatian citizens found these freedoms difficult to exercise under Tudjman, who fostered an environment in which bribery and embezzlement were commonplace, privatization programs lacked transparency, and individuals were frequently deprived of salaries and pensions.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2002/countryratings/croatia2.htm (1034 words)

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