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Topic: Croatian parliamentary election, 1990

	Regional Map and History - World Learning's STAR Network
		In January 1990, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia collapsed due to deep divisions between proponents of a multi-party system, further decentralization of the federation (led by Slovenia and Croatia) and Miloevic's pushing for greater centralization and incremental reforms.
		Multi-party elections were held in all in all republics throughout 1990, bringing victory to new nationalist parties in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
		After the death of Croatian president Tudjman in December 1999, the ruling nationalist Croatian Democratic Union was defeated for the first time in the January 3, 2000, parliamentary elections, thanks to a broad campaign for change by six opposition political parties, civil society, and the independent media.
	www.worldlearning.org /wlid/star/resources (2338 words)

	Elections in Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Croatia gives information on election and election results in Croatia.
		The Assembly (Sabor) is unicameral, between 100 and 160 members, exact number was decided by the legislature - elected for a four year term, 140 members in multi-seat constituencies, up to 6 members chosen by proportional representation to represent Croatians residing abroad and 5 members of ethnic and national communities or minorities.
		2 Elections for the Croatian Chamber of Counties
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Croatia (140 words)

	Politics of Croatia - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska) is a parliamentary democracy with an elected president.
		Although "Croatian Spring" was broken, the leaders lost their political position and were forced into isolation, and less important leaders were persecuted, practically all the intentions of the mentioned national leaders were accepted and introduced in Yugoslavian constitution from 1974.
		The right-wing was represented by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), led by the communist general, later Croatian nationalist and dissident Franjo Tuđman.
	politicsofcroatia.quickseek.com (1741 words)

	THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
		The Croatian Parliament shall consist of the House of Representatives (Zastupni_ki dom) and the House of Counties (_upanijski dom).
		Elections for representatives in the Houses of the Croatian Parliament shall be held not later than 60 days after the expiry of the mandate or the dissolution of the Houses of the Croatian Parliament.
		Elections for the Croatian Parliament and the President of the Republic shall be called in accordance with the electoral laws, which shall be passed not later than one year after the promulgation of this Constitution.
	www.constitution.org /cons/croatia.htm (8003 words)

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		Parliamentary elections are scheduled in Croatia no later than January of next year, though no date has yet been set.
		In the course of 1990, following the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the SDP reinvented itself.
		It is clear, however, that senior members of the HDZ are worried by the forthcoming vote and are thus engaging in mutual recriminations as to responsibility for Croatia's international isolation, poverty and lack of prospects.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_19990901_3_eng.txt (919 words)

	elections_large_response
		In the first election district, DPA has won 10,094% or 5,2%; 11,214 or 5,5% in the second election district; 1,413 or 0,6% in the third election district; 8,341 or 4,4% at the fifth election district; and 31,823 or 16,8% at the sixth election district.
		The election process could be repeated in the villages Lesok and Runica, as well as in the Kumanovo camp "Kristal", the polling station for internally displaced persons from the Kumanovo-Lipkovo region.
		The first parliamentary elections in Macedonia were held in 1990, the second in 1994, while the third in 1998.
	tvmacedonia.tripod.com /elections_large_response.htm (967 words)

	Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review
		After the breakdown of the Croatian Spring in 1971, he was sentenced to two years of imprisonment, which was reduced after Tito's intervention.
		Thousands of Croatian citizens paid their respects to the late President by visiting the Presidential Office, where the coffin rests, and by lighting candles on the main squares of all Croatian towns.
		Saturday, 11 December was the deadline for forwarding the candidacies for the upcoming parliamentary elections to the State Electoral Commission, which reported that 69 rosters have been submitted - 35 from parties, 20 from independent candidates and 14 from party coalitions.
	www.ce-review.org /99/25/croatianews25.html (940 words)

	Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Elections - ...
		The ODIHR deployed an Election Observation Mission to monitor the elections to the Sabor (Croatian parliament) on 23 November 2003.
		However, a number of concerns were noted particularly with regard to election-related legislation, the accuracy and transparency of voter registers, media coverage of elections, and the participation of national minorities in elections.
		The ODIHR Final Report on the 2000 presidential elections further recommended that the law on presidential elections be amended to provide for party representation on election commissions and to allow for domestic non-partisan observation of elections; it was also recommended that the citizenship law be amended in line with European practice.
	www.osce.org /odihr-elections/item_12_14404.html (438 words)

	Croatia Update - European Forum
		Election observers have linked the poor showing of the HDZ in several areas to the government’s decision to increase cooperation with the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal, which is a key EU condition for Croatia’s membership in the organization.
		Her view was that the Croatian authorities had enhanced their efforts to locate Gotovina and she hoped that this would continue and result in his transfer to the ICTY in the near future.
		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.
	www.europeanforum.net /country/croatia (6565 words)

	nij156
		After ten years of absolutist power exercised by Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), a party which won the first elections in 1990 and has been constantly in power ever since, HDZ was devastatingly defeated by Croatian democratic opposition at the parliamentary elections on 3rd of January 2000.
		At second parliamentary election in 1992 his party barely got over election margin, but already third parliamentary elections in 1995 showed that it was on the rise.
		In reality, if the elections were to be conducted on the original date, meaning July 4, it would be impossible for Putin to maintain over five months the fantastic level of public approval ratings that he has now, which are currently over 50 percent.
	www.idee.org /nij156.html (4990 words)

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		Elections of the President of the Republic of Lithuania '97
		Republic of Macedonia - 1998 parliamentary election resutls
		The Dynamics of Change Accross Europe" ESRC project that examines contemporary processes of political, security, economic, social and cultural change across the European continent; the Programme has both east-west and north-south dimensions and many of the 27 projects are cross-country comparisons.
	www2.essex.ac.uk /elect/database/usefulLinks.asp (550 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		Slovenia is fast approaching a parliamentary election later this year, and its parties are realigning themselves.
		The long-awaited Law on the Privatization of Insurance Companies, which was ground in the slow parliamentary gristmill for four years, regulates the conversion of public capital in joint-stock companies whose exclusive line of business is insurance and reinsurance.
		Speaking before a parliamentary committee, in November, Ales Zalar, president of the Judges Association, described the plight of the courts.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol9num_onehalf/constitutionwatch/slovenia.html (1435 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Summary Record - Croatia
		Although there had been individual cases of arbitrary arrest and killing during the early stages of spontaneous self-defence against the aggressor, the Croatian authorities had applied the rule of law throughout the territory under their control and were prosecuting the perpetrators of such criminal acts.
		That policy of the Croatian Government was an expression of its awareness of the importance of human rights, its willingness to promote them and achieve the highest international standards, and its desire to become an equal member of the international community meeting all its human rights requirements.
		Unfortunately, the Croatian Government could do nothing about violations in the part of the territory out of its control, where, as eyewitnesses who had fled or been expelled testified, incidents of ethnic cleansing, expulsions, arbitrary arrests, executions, torture and racial and religious hatred continued to occur.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CCPR.C.SR.1201.En?Opendocument (5561 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Croatia
		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 /polity/country_reports/Cro1.htm (776 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Montenegro may be sitting on top of oil reserves
		The president did not do as well as expected in the recent parliamentary elections, which were dominated by the issue of secession.
		In 1990, exploration work was started in Crmnice, some 20 km from the coast, but was halted by the war and the imposition of sanctions against Yugoslavia.
		Besides the election set-back and the international community's threat to pull economic support if Podgorica pushes ahead with secession, Djukanovic has also found himself at the centre of a Croatian media investigation into illegal tobacco shipments and organised crime.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nte13146.htm (761 words)

	Croatia - Government
		Croatia is a parliamentary democracy, consisting of three branches of government: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch.
		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.
		Parliamentary speaker Vlatko Pavletic, who served as interim president until an election in February 2000, succeeded him.
	www.unc.edu /~vineyard/government.htm (727 words)

	Croatia (05/07)
		The death of President Tudjman in December 1999, followed by the election of a coalition government and President in early 2000, brought significant changes to Croatia.
		The Croatian Parliament, also known as the Sabor, became a unicameral body after its upper house (Chamber of Counties) was eliminated by constitutional amendment in March 2001.
		As a result of the parliamentary elections in November 2003, the HDZ formed a government in coalition with the Pensioners Party (HSU), Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), and all ethnic minority representatives in the Sabor.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3166.htm (2821 words)

	CROATIA'S DEMOCRACY DEFICIT
		Elections are generally measured against two yard-sticks-whether they are "free" and whether they are "fair." The "freeness" of an election is measured according to the ability of voters to express their will free from intimidation.
		Beyond election day, the implementation of results is an additional, practical measure of the success of an election.
		International bodies that have monitored previous presidential, parliamentary, and local elections in Croatia have concluded that those elections were generally free.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/croatia2/Electweb-02.htm (929 words)

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		The country is now impoverished, economic output is half that of 1990 and foreign debt has risen to $9.6 billion.
		The opposition promised, during the election campaign, to reduce the enormous powers held by the president.
		While Tudjman was alive the opposition had demanded a public statement that he would abide by the election results and had proposed a special law to ensure a peaceful hand-over of power.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20000107_1_eng.txt (789 words)

	The Croatian Intelligence Community
		The organization of the SZUP was entrusted to Josip Manolic, Minister of the Interior and former chief of the Croatian SDB.
		The Directorate of Intelligence Affairs of the Croatian Army Headquarters, formed in 1991, serves as the intelligence coordinating service for all of the armed forces and is directly attached to the Croatian General Staff for intelligence support.
		Croatian Navy (HRM - Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica): The HRM maintains headquarters at Lora Naval Base outside of Split on the Adriatic Sea and is organized into three coastal command sectors: North at Pula, Central at Sibenik, and South Adriatic at Ploce.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/croatia/hatzadony.html (3936 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Presidential elections are set for January in Georgia
		TBILISI -- Presidential elections are set for January TBILISI -- Georgia's Parliament yesterday called new presidential elections for Jan. 4, setting off a quick countdown to find a replacement for ousted president Eduard Shevardnadze.
		ZAGREB -- Nationalists who recently won Croatia's parliamentary elections have approached leaders of the Serb minority to show that their party has distanced itself from its radical past, a party spokesman said yesterday.
		The Croatian Democratic Union, the party of late president Franjo Tudjman that was once renounced by the West for its fierce anti-Serb sentiment, defeated Croatia's pro-Western government in Sunday's elections.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2003/11/26/presidential_elections_are_set_for_january_in_georgia?mode=PF (552 words)

	IWA Zagreb Training Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		CCS was founded in 1990 to organize democracy-building in the region.
		Croatian media leaders shared their experiences on parliamentary and presidential elections in which media and NGO coalitions played key roles in defeating the nationalist regime.
		Participants enhanced their skills and met with a variety of media, state, and non-governmental actors involved in Croatia's upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.
	www.iwa.org /Training/Zagreb.htm (1008 words)

	USAID Transition Initiatives: Croatia Field Report
		The parliamentary elections held on January 3, 2000 will be considered a milestone in Croatia's history.
		By all accounts the election was run in an orderly and professional manner with no attempts to change or influence the results.
		The Serb party was allocated only one seat (out of 151 seats) compared to three seats (out of 120) in the last parliamentary election, and as a result, the overwhelming majority (70-90 percent) of the Serb population chose to vote on the main ticket.
	www.usaid.gov /our_work/cross-cutting_programs/transition_initiatives/country/croatia/rpt0100.html (785 words)

	Central Europe Review - Croatian News Review
		On Wednesday, 2 February, 151 newly elected members of the Parliament took an oath and elected Zlatko Tomčić of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) Speaker of the Parliament and of the House of Representatives (lower house).
		According to a previous agreement, parliamentary committees were established and their chairmanships distributed: the ruling coalition will chair 11 committees, the HDZ six, the right-wing coalition between the HSP (Croatian Party of Rights) and the HKDU (Croatian Christian-Democratic Union) one and national minorities one.
		The most recent polls indicate that Stipe Mesić will win the elections, although the difference in percentage is not as large as it was in the first round of elections (14 per cent).
	www.ce-review.org /00/5/croatianews5.html (655 words)

	Printed Version
		The results of the parliamentary elections held in Croatia on 3rd January mean that there is likely to be a major shift in future government policy.
		The parliamentary election of 2000 became entangled with Tudjman’s fate as the president’s illness and death on 10th December 1999 prevented the poll being held on 22nd December as planned.
		The main parties contesting the election apart from the governing HDZ were the coalition of Social Liberals and Social Democrats led by their respective leaders, Drazen Budisa and Ivica Racan, a coalition of six centre-left parties and a coalition of party of the far right parties.
	www.bhhrg.org /Print.asp?ReportID=&CountryID=7 (3355 words)

	ELECTION LAW RESOURCES - CHAN ROBLES & ASSOCIATES LAW FIRM
		Election of Members of the National Assembly Act
		Decree 1-90 of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, 1990
		Law on Election to the Chamber of Deputies, 1992
	www.chanrobles.com /electionlawresources.htm (179 words)

	Politics of Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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).
		elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 7 February 2000 (next to be held NA 2005); prime minister appointed by the president
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Croatia.html (965 words)

	GlobaLex - The Croatian Legal System Guide
		Croatian Chamber of Notaries - Croatian chamber of notaries is an association of Croatian public notaries.
		Minister of Justice names the presidents of the courts from among the appointed judges and the president of the Supreme Court of Croatia is chosen by the Parliament based on the proposition from the Cabinet.
		It is important to recognize that all of the decisions of the constitutional court are considered a president (case law) because according to the constitution all courts and other governmental bodies must adhere to opinions and interpretations of the constitution and laws taken by constitutional court.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Croatia.htm (4805 words)

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