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  Croatian Party of Pensioners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Croatian Party of Pensioners (Croatian: Hrvatska Stranka Umirovljenika) is a Croatian political party.
As a result, Croatian pensioners are the section of society that became most impoverished and most embittered during that period.
However, the Party gradually built its organisation throughout the country and slowly rose in popularity due to both HDZ and left-centre cabinets of Ivica Račan refusing to honour Constitutional Court verdict that ordered government to pay back pensions that had been denied in early 1990s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_Party_of_Pensioners   (366 words)

  
 The FAME: Croatia - Political Flags
The party flag is vertical light blue with the white lower quarter and with the party emblem in the middle.
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 the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle, consisting of initials SDH and a red rose.
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 Croatian Party of Rights -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The "Rights" in the party's name refer to the idea of Croatian national and ethnic (An abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature) rights that the party has vowed to protect since its founding in the 19th century.
The party's first post-communist president, Ante Paradžik was a political dissident during the former Yugoslavia when he was one of the student leaders of the (additional info and facts about Croatian Spring) Croatian Spring, but he was killed during the war, allegedly by assassination.
Party leadership, however, has attempted to distance the party from comparisons with the NDH-era in 2003 in an attempt to attract more moderate voters.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/croatian_party_of_rights.htm   (934 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.
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 Encyclopedia: Zagreb
Much of the Croatian industry is concentrated in Zagreb, including metal processing, electrical appliances, textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals (Pliva), printing and leather industries, wood processing, paper etc. Blender Small appliance refers to a class of appliances that are semi-portable or which are used on tabletops, countertops, or other platforms.
Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia, Serbian Далмација) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, mostly in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast.
Dubrovnik-Neretva county - Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija is the southernmost Croatian and Dalmatian county.
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 Croatian parliamentary election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections for the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003.
Croatian Democratic Peasants Party (Hrvatska Demokratska Seljačka stranka)
Ivo Sanader of Croatian Democratic Union HDZ was appointed as Prime Minister by the President and confirmed by the Croatian Parliament.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Croatian_parliamentary_election,_2003   (392 words)

  
 Croatia Update - European Forum
Croatian government is eager to fulfill its obligations towards becoming a EU member state, but does not necessarily agree with the indictments and the (local) authorities still protect, or have been protecting, a number of those accused by the ICTY.
The Croatian Social Liberal Party is a moderate centre-right party, advocating a mix of social and liberal policies with regard to the economy, the rights of the individual citizen and the state’s role in society.
The basic programme principle and goal of the political activities of the party are directed toward the betterment of the social and economic position of the retired as one of the most numerous and the most impoverished groups of citizens, within the framework of creating a wealthier Croatian state.
www.europeanforum.net /country/croatia   (5988 words)

  
 Politics of Croatia - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Croatian Party of Pensioners or HSU [Vladimir Jordan]
Slavonia and Baranja Croatian Party or SBHS [Damir Jurić]
Croatian politics are currently dominated by the legislative elections that occured on November 23, 2003.
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 Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In total, the SDP-Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) coalition won 15 seats, the HSLS 10, the HNS nine, the Liberal Party-Social Democratic Action (LS-ASH) coalition six, the former ruling Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) five, Democratic Center, the new moderate right-wing party of Mate Granić, three, and the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) two.
Lučin noted that "the safety of tourists [will be] the most important task of the Croatian police in the upcoming tourist season, ensuring that visitors are completely safe during their visit to Croatia," HRT reported.
The recent shift in Croatian foreign police was lauded by EU foreign and defence policy chief Javier Solana at this week's Brussels conference on peace implementation in Bosnia.
www.ce-review.org /00/21/croatianews21.html   (1708 words)

  
 Croatia - Political Flags
The party was established by a LIBRA member that apparently opposed with to the merger with HNS.
The party emblem is described in the Statutes (Statut IDS-DDI, 23.03.2002 ): a white disk in green field with three goats white, two over one, facing to the dexter, with the full name in all three languages inscribed around the disk.
This is an alliance of numerous local parties in the north Croatian littoral and mountainoius hinterground (roughly the Rijeka region).
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 Croatian Democratic Peasants Party -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is led by Ivo Lončar, a popular television news reporter who was elected as a member of the 2000-2003 Parliament from the (additional info and facts about Croatian Peasant Party) Croatian Peasant Party list.
He subsequently left the party and became an independent deputy.
In the November 2003 elections he led the party list of HDSS and two other smaller parties and managed to retain his seat in the (A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)) Parliament.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Cr/Croatian_Democratic_Peasants_Party.htm   (103 words)

  
 Nationalists win Croatian ... - Nov. 25, 2003
The outgoing center-left coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Prime Minister Ivica Racan was credited with 63 seats, and the unaligned Croatian Pensioners' Party with two.
An invitation to join the EU is expected by 2007, depending on reforms in areas such as the judiciary, the return of Serb refugees from the 1991-95 Serbo-Croat war, and cooperation with the UN tribunal at The Hague.
Some analysts believe that despite the recent efforts of the HDZ to distance itself from the past and recast its image in the center of European conservatism, the party is still full of hardliners from the Tudjman years.
www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/nov/25/text/wnw_3-1-p.htm   (472 words)

  
 News in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Croatian Peasant Party is third with 12 mandates, followed by the Croatian People's Party with nine seats and the Croatian Party of Rights with eight 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 Croatian Party of Pensioners will enter the parliament for the first time with three deputies, which is the biggest surprise of yesterday's elections.
www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2003/11/24/ENG.html   (899 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A group of 27 intellectuals - university professors, members of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences and writers - requested that the Government organise a referendum on the electoral law.
Both parties expressed their satisfaction with the level of co-operation and discussed future projects, such as the expansion of the harbour of Rijeka for the use of Hungarian companies, completion of the construction of the Rijeka-Budapest motorway and the merger of the Hungarian oil company MOL with its Croatian counterpart INA.
The mission was also concerned about the lack of progress in the field of reforms of electoral legislation and media.
www.ce-review.org /99/15/croatianews15.html   (1313 words)

  
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While the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, secured a convincing victory in the November 23 election - with 66 seats in the 152-seat parliament - it had still not formed a coalition as this report was published.
As a result, parties representing minorities are now trying to get as many concessions out of Sanader as possible in return for their support.
The Croatian constitution stipulates that the president should appoint as prime minister designate either the leader whose party won the highest number of votes, or whoever can secure a majority in parliament.
www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr3/bcr3_200312_471_3_eng.txt   (977 words)

  
 Pensioners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 Encyclopedia: Croatian Party of Pensioners
The Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska) is a parliamentary democracy with an elected president.
The parliament of Croatia is called Hrvatski Sabor in Croatian - the word sabor means an assembly, a gathering, a congress.
A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Croatian-Party-of-Pensioners   (250 words)

  
 Zagreb - ThinksBig.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sesvete is the closest one to become a part of the conurbation and is in fact already included in the City of Zagreb rather than the Zagreb county (which excludes the city).
Much of the Croatian industry is concentrated in Zagreb, including metal processing, electrical appliances, textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals (Pliva), printing and leather industries, wood processing, paper etc.
The wider Zagreb area has been constantly inhabited ever since the prehistoric period, witnessed by the archaeological findings in the Veternica cave from the Paleolithic and the excavation of the remains of a destroyed Roman town of Andautonia near the present village of Ščitarjevo.
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 Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most probable candidate for the new president of the court is Smiljko Sokol, professor at the Law Faculty and a high official in the ruling party, the HDZ.
The lowest average wage was in the Medjimurje County (2,306 Croatian kuna) and only in Zagreb County was the average salary higher than the over all average.
The differences in average salary between branches of activity are large: from 2,275 Croatian kuna (DEM 583) average in retail trades to 4.271 (DEM 1.095) in the banking industry.
www.ce-review.org /99/17/croatianews17.html   (1206 words)

  
 News in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
An Open Day exhibition of Jewish culture and heritage was organised on Sunday by the Committee for the Protection of Jewish Cultural Heritage of the Jewish community and association "Gavro Schwartz", a beanch of the B'nai B'rith in Croatia.
The Croatian Ministry of the Interior said on Sunday that the new Road Safety Law was proving effective with less loss of lives on Croatia's thoroughfares and accidents halved.
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader arrived in Macedonia on Monday on a two-day visit to the country.
www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2004/09/06/ENG.html   (518 words)

  
 Croatian elections 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The number of representatives elected fromthis unit will be determined after the elections, based on how many people actually vote in Croatia, so that there is equal valueof votes both inside and outside Croatia.
Due todistribution according to the d'Hondt method, the independent listsfor diaspora won't be allocated seats, even though they received over 5% of total votes.
Ivo Sanader of Croatian Democratic Union HDZ was appointed as Prime Minister by the Presidentand confirmed by the Croatian Parliament.
www.therfcc.org /croatian-elections-2003-271209.html   (317 words)

  
 Freedom in the World 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The HDZ's return to power was viewed with caution because of the party's past history of engaging in nationalist demagogy, its meddling in neighboring BosniaHerzegovina, and its poor record in dealing with Croatia's ethnic minorities.
Prime Minister Sanader has claimed that the party is now "reformed" and has evolved into a normal European Christian-democratic party purged of extremists, but many of its more controversial figures from the past remain in influential positions.
Respect for the separation of powers in the Croatian political system remains problematic, and there have been numerous cases in recent years in which the executive or legislative branch has failed to abide by or implement decisions made by the Constitutional Court.
freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/croatia.htm   (1439 words)

  
 Croatian local elections: results pending - Wikinews
Official results of the local elections held in Croatia yesterday are still pending, but according to exit polls and preliminary results the currently ruling party, Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) has performed poorly.
HDZ has a lead in nine of 21 counties, and the second largest party, Social Democrat Party of Croatia (SDP) has a clear lead in three out of four big cities, including Zagreb.
Milan Bandić, in front of the list of SDP, Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and Croatian Party of Pensioners (HSU) will be able to form a government in the Zagreb assembly on his own.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Croatian_local_elections:_results_pending   (193 words)

  
 Croatian Party of Pensioners - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Croatian Party of Pensioners - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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 Read about Croatian Party of Pensioners at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Croatian Party of Pensioners and learn ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Read about Croatian Party of Pensioners at WorldVillage Encyclopedia.
The Croatian Party of Pensioners (Croatian: Hrvatska Stranka Umirovljenika) is a Croatian
Vladimir Jordan and has 3 representatives in the Croatian Parliament.
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 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nearly two weeks after Croatia's parliamentary election, the winning party has yet to forge an alliance with a smaller group to create a majority government.
The incumbent ministers are in favour, as they want to keep their jobs in the new government, but the other party heads are strongly against it as they fear that the huge HDZ would simply swallow our nine representatives."
Finally, under strong pressure from influential party members, Tomcic informed Sanader that his party was not prepared to be the HDZ's coalition partner.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200312_471_3_eng.txt   (1227 words)

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