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	Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections - 2003 parliamentary elections
		ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION: Observation of parliamentary elections in Croatia
		Preliminary statement on the parliamentary elections in Croatia, 23 November 2003
		Voters in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on their way to polls for parliamentary elections, 23 November 2003.
	www.osce.org /odihr-elections/14442.html (186 words)

	Croatian parliamentary election, 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections for the Croatian Parliament were held on November 23, 2003.
		The number of representatives elected from this unit will be determined after the elections, based on how many people actually vote in Croatia, so that there is equal value of votes both inside and outside Croatia.
		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)

	MSN Encarta - Croatia
		Croatia’s labor force numbered 2.1 million in 2003, with some 54 percent of the working population employed in services, 30 percent in industry, and 16 percent in agriculture.
		In 2003, 30 percent of the GDP was generated by industry and 8 percent by agriculture.
		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.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577939_4/Croatia.html (735 words)

	Croatian Football + Slovenia Serbia & Montenegro Bosnia & Hercegovina Football Reports :: Soccerphile
		Zvonimir Boban, the former captain of the Croatian national team, has achieved something notable for a footballer - a university diploma - and is a serious contender for the both the position of deputy minister of sports and that of FA president.
		Ivica Olic, the phenomenal Croatian striker is a proud owner of a most remarkable achievement - that of having won three league titles with three different clubs in an interval of less than a year and a half, topping the scorers chart on two occasions along the way.
		Croatian Season Review 2004: An interesting and a dramatic season in Croatia has ended with Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb sharing the trophies again, as so many times in the past.
	www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/balkans-soccer (1035 words)

	Draxblog: 09/2003 - 09/2003
		During the first democratic elections in 1990, moderate Croatian nationalists had alternative to SDP and HDZ in the form of co-allition led by Savka Dabčević-Kučar (Savka Dabcevic-Kucar) and Ante "Miko" Tripalo, former Communist leaders in Croatia who used to be nationalists icons after their downfall in early 1970s.
		Elections prospects: excellent; despite 2-3 % of general vote, it is in coalition with SDP in Istria, thus having Sabor seats guaranteed.
		This is proper Croatian translation, using the same standard when the official language of Croatia used to be called "Western variant of Croatian or Serbian language" (until 1990s, for those not familiar with linguistic aspects of Croatian history).
	draxisblogging.blogspot.com /2003_09_01_draxisblogging_archive.html (12114 words)

	Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Croatia (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2003)
		According to the Croatian government, 4,271 cases of repossession of government allocated private property, mostly owned by ethnic Serbs, were still unresolved at the beginning of October 2003.
		Croatian courts have dealt with only a handful of war crimes perpetrated against ethnic Serbs, usually resulting in acquittals and absurdly low sentences for ethnic Croat indictees.
		On September 26, 2003, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) abolished post-monitoring dialogue with Croatia, following a positive report by the president of the CoE Monitoring Committee, which was later endorsed by the full committee at its session in September.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2003/12/31/croati7021.htm (898 words)

	Chile
		The legislative branch, with the exception of 10 nonelected senators among the 48 members of the upper house, is elected freely and is independent from the executive branch.
		In 2001, free and fair congressional elections were held for all 120 seats in the lower house and 18 of the 38 elected seats in the Senate.
		The elections resulted in a 24-24 split between pro-Lagos senators and those of the opposition and narrowed the Concertacion coalition's lead in the lower house from 70-50 to 63-57.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27890.htm (8525 words)

	Croatia
		In an election year, all election commissions from the national to the local level, are constituted on an ad hoc basis and staffed primarily by professional judges.
		In February, the County Prosecutor in Split appealed the acquittal to the Supreme Court in the high-profile Lora war crimes case (eight Croatian soldiers were accused of torturing ethnic Serb prisoners) on grounds of wrongly and incompletely established facts and failure to admit crucial evidence.
		The OSCE and NGOs argued in advance of the election that the number of polling stations in Serbia and Montenegro was insufficient for the number of potential voters among ethnic Serb refugees who still had not returned, but the Government did not open more polling stations.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27831.htm (12628 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Stjepan Mesic of the Croatian People's Party (HNS) won the presidency in a run-off election (the HDZ candidate placed a distant third) and is supported by a coalition government comprising former oppositional parties.
		Following November 2003 legislative elections (which also saw an increase in the number of seats in parliament to 152), Ivo Sanader of the HDZ party succeeded as prime minister.
		According to international observers, the two rounds of presidential elections were conducted in calm and orderly fashion, and voters were able to express their political will freely.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Cro1.htm (776 words)

	Ultra-nationalist win in Serbia boosts Zagreb's EU bid: Croatian leader - EUbusiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The victory of ultra-nationalists in parliamentary elections in Serbia has given a boost to Croatia's bid to join the European Union as the bloc will now see Zagreb as the region's democratic leader, President Stipe Mesic said.
		Croatia's own legislative elections in November were won by nationalists which claim to have made a clean break with the past.
		The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which defeated a moderate centre-left alliance, says it has turned the page on its nationalist past and is serious about bringing Croatia into the EU in 2007.
	www.eubusiness.com /Croatia/031231130442.knh0i8b0 (381 words)

	EVENING NEWS 10.7.2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Croatian parliament did not resume voting on a number of previously debated items on Friday because the opposition, as announced, walked out of the session declining to vote on items which do not pertain to the adjusting of domestic legislation to EU standards.
		The Croatian parliament on Friday morning began a debate on a bill on telecommunications, which is in urgent procedure as it should adjust the regulation of the national telecommunications market to European standards.
		Croatian and Israeli Presidents Stjepan Mesiæ and Moshe Katsav voiced confidence on Friday that three-day visit of President Katsav to Croatia would contribute to the strengthening of political and economic ties between the two countries.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2003/07/11/ENG.html (1621 words)

	Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The main purpose was to monitor parties' activities from gender perspective, to compile and distribute a Women's Amandment, to demand gender equality in political programs, to raise awareness of the constituency on women's issues and to lobby public vote for those parties which had programs in favour of protection of women's interests.
		The result of the Electorine project for monitoring and influencing parliamentary elections (held in January 2000), presidential elections (held in February 2000) and Municipality of Zagreb elections (May 2000) was B.a.B.e.
		On April 13, 1997, elections for the local authorities, as well as regional house of the Parliament were held in Croatia.
	www.babe.hr /eng/activities/elections.htm (686 words)

	ACTIVITIES \| Election Monitoring @ GONG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We encourage, organize and educate Croatian citizens to monitor elections as domestic, non-partisan observers in order to prevent and/or reveal the election law and regulations malpractice, report to the public and build citizens’ trust and confidence in election process.
		In 1999, the election law was amended to permit non-partisan election monitoring.
		In advance of elections, GONG routinely manages civic education campaigns on electoral process, voting rights and the importance of certain elections.
	www.gong.hr /eng/gong.asp?cat=17&subcat=48 (219 words)

	Freedom in the World 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Despite the euphoria surrounding its election victory, the HDZ still has to deal with the same serious problems that led to the SDP's downfall--responding to the intense international pressure to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and revitalizing an economy increasingly burdened by $20 billion in external debt.
		The parliamentary elections of November 2003 were contested by a record 34 candidates competing for each of the 152 seats in parliament.
		Although the elections were on the whole free and fair, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) expressed concern over the short time frame available for election administration, the lack of accessibility for out-of-country voters, particularly for refugees in Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the lack of transparency in campaign financing.
	freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/croatia.htm (1439 words)

	The picture presented by parties of the nationalist Right in Europe is one of great complexity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But the party was a personality cult rather than a normal political party, and in the absence of that personality, the party—which had briefly united social conservatives with gay rights activists, and immigration restrictionists with assimilated immigrants from the former Dutch colonies—fell apart, precipitating the collapse of the coalition.
		However, it is worth noting that in national elections held in December 2003, Zhirinovsky’s LDP and the Homeland Party-National Patriotic Union won nearly 20 percent of the vote.
		In October 2003, industrialist Christoph Blocher’s Swiss People’s Party, campaigning against asylum and the EU, emerged as the largest party in the Swiss lower house, with 26.6 percent of the vote.
	theoccidentalquarterly.com /vol3no4/dt-euroright.html (4041 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Publications, 2003
		On October 15, 2003, citizens of Azerbaijan will vote for a new president, following an election campaign that from the beginning was heavily manipulated by the government to favor Prime Minister Ilham Aliev, son of President Heidar Aliev.
		The government ensured that election commissions would be stacked to favor Aliev, and banned nongovernmental organizations from monitoring the vote.
		This 61-page report describes the plight of displaced Croatian Serbs and urges that progress on return be made a condition of Croatia’s application to join the European Union.
	www.hrw.org /doc?t=pubs2003&document_limit=20,20 (2624 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Croatians hold parliamentary elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Croatia's pro-Western government defended itself in parliamentary elections Sunday against a strong challenge from the nationalist party that led the former Yugoslav republic to independence.
		Whichever government is elected could bring the nation into the European Union as early as 2007 if it continues with pro-democracy and economic reforms of recent years.
		The party -- the Croatian Democratic Union, better known by its Croatian acronym, HDZ -- claims to have expelled its extremists and says it is ready for Western-style democracy.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2003/11/23/croatians_hold_parliamentary_elections (548 words)

	Nigeria Monthly Energy Chronology (2002 - 2004)
		Constitutionally, local elections should be held before the national elections including the selection of the next president.
		The elections, the first since 15 years of military dictatorship ended in the populous country in 1999, have been overshadowed by spreading violence.
		The dissolution of the cabinet after elections is a normal procedure in Nigeria, which allows the president to form a new government.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/nigiachron.html (14889 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Prague, 21 May 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Iraq's U.S. civilian administrator said today a national conference expected to choose a new interim authority for the country will probably not be held until July.
		The day-to-day running of the country and control over ministries will remain under the direct administration of the U.S.-led coalition until elections are held to select a new leadership.
		The United States and Britain have introduced a draft UN Security Council resolution legalizing the presence of coalition forces in Iraq until a representative government recognized by the international community is established in Baghdad.
	www.rferl.org /nca/features/2003/05/21052003162611.asp (1174 words)

	Printed Version
		Nikolić was convinced that the November 2003 presidential election had been conducted fairly and that the low figures given for the turnout that led to his failure to win were accurate.
		However, the most unsatisfactory aspect of the conduct of this election was the rule allowing all the parties contesting the election to have two representatives present in the polling station acting, according to the law, as members of an extended electoral commission.
		Elections as a way of life, however, are not the same as living in a normal democracy.
	www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=210&CountryID=20 (6980 words)

	News in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Croatian government will decide next Wednesday that it cannot implement the parliamentary conclusion binding it to ensure legal assistance and access to documents to all people suspected or indicted by the Hague war crimes tribunal and their attorneys, Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic said on Thursday.
		The Croatian government decreed on Thursday the Split Polytechnic will be incorporated into the University of Split as a department for expert studies, Education Minister Gvozden Flego told reporters.
		Croatian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Transport Roland ?uvaniæ launched the reconstruction of the gate in Zadar harbour on Friday.
	www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2003/10/24/ENG.html (1269 words)

	UNPAN elections in the europe region
		Republic of Serbia (Serbia and Montenegro) Parliamentary Election 28 December 2003.
		The law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Elections to the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan
		Republic of Tajikistan: Elections to the Parliament 27.02.2000.
	www.unpan.org /autoretrieve/regional_focus.asp?region=europe&focus=elections (881 words)

	November 2003
		Georgia: In parliamentary elections, the For a New Georgia bloc wins 21.3% of the vote and the Revival Union 18.9%; both are loyal to President Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Indonesia: Syahrial Oesman is sworn in as governor of Sumatera Selatan.
		Spain: In Catalonia elections, the Convergence and Union party wins 30.9% of the vote (46 of 135 seats), the Socialist Party of Catalonia 31.2% (42), the Republican Left of Catalonia 16.5% (23), the Popular Party 11.9% (15), and the Initiative for Catalonia-Greens 7.3% (9).
	rulers.org /2003-11.html (1603 words)

	Global Suburb
		Nationalists won Sunday's parliamentary elections in Croatia, handily defeating the incumbent center-left coalition.
		According to the BBC, fatigue with electioneering caused a boom in DVD rentals.
		Like in the blockbuster The Matrix, they seem to be building a parallel world to the reality of Croatian political parties' bleak and confusing election messages.
	blogs.salon.com /0001879/categories/balkanNewsBriefs/2003/11/24.html (70 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands.
		Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census)
		elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 16 January 2005 (next to be held January 2010); the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the president and then approved by the Assembly
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/hr.html (1177 words)

	The Head Heeb: Candidates abroad
		The people who should participate in elections of any country are the people who live in that country and are affected by its policies.
		In some cases, the expats who vote in Italian, French or Croatian elections may never have lived in the country and may not have a home district.
		One could argue that this is true for domestic elections as well, but it is more so given that the dispersion of the Jewish diaspora would favor an indirect electoral system.
	headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/018685.html (4510 words)

	Ten events that marked the year of 2003 in Serbia
		The epilog of this and another three cases of this kind is being expected in court these days.
		Serbia and Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic and Croatian President Stjepan Mesic exchanged in September, quite unexpectedly and for the first time, apologies by their citizens and countries for crimes committed and evil and damage done during the war in Croatia.
		In 2003 former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic and SRS leader Vojislav Seselj delivered themselves to the Hague Tribunal, while the former officer of former Yugoslav Peoples Army Veselin Sljivancanin was arrested and delivered to this court.
	www.invest-in-serbia.com /archive/2004/2004_01/2004_01_01_01.htm (514 words)

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